Sitting around the Thanksgiving dinner table consuming the same predictable conversation that revolves around bashing kids nowadays for their laziness is a given. Your uncle Joe talks about how he got beaten with a ruler if he spoke out in class, while aunt Beth is sure to mention the time she walked 12 miles to get fresh water every morning.
While these stories lose the interest of basically everyone at the table, there are certainly struggles that kids today don’t have to deal with that other generations were forced to. Technology like computers and cell phones are no longer new, which means the guinea pig phase we all lugged through is finally over.
This list outlines the many struggles — like clicking the wrong tab and giving your computer a chronic virus on Windows— that we faced growing up that are completely foreign to kids these days.
“Wait, We Actually Have To Talk To Each Other?”
Being able to hold an interesting conversation is becoming a forgotten art. With everyone’s mind and body being a slave to their phones and other technologies, it’s becoming less and less frequent to have meaningful conversations. Eye contact is becoming a thing of the past and it’s only mildly concerning.
