Attention AND motivation? Hahaha
Ironic. More kids and they are dumber.
Does that include yours ?
Old folk love to dump on young folk. Always have:
The 2,500-Year-Old History of Adults Blaming the Younger Generation
Son has phd and daughter has masters. My dad is a retired doctor. I’m quite talented in auto repair. And almost always right.
That’s a huge problem in tech field. I however embraced the change. I liked learning new things. But a lot of people I worked with early in my career left after 20 years because everything was changing too often and too fast. A lot of people go work for a company and stay there for YEARS and years working on the same product using the same software tools and language. Then when that product they were working on became so obsolete the company decides to upgrade and bring in qualified people to help them. Many times I’ve seen the engineers who’ve been there for DECADES decide they didn’t want to spend the time learning the new technology and leave (many into completely different fields).
What’s ironic about that? It takes a properly motivated adult to spend the time necessary to foster the curiosity that all kids have and provide the necessary educational opportunities to grow that interest. It’s not the kids- it’s the adults that are failing the kids.
Red flag.
So what makes you think your children are so unique among the population of of their age or those coming up behind them?
You have to show why the new is better than the old and not just for the sake of change. When they first came out I bought about 20 of the electronic typewriters. They just had memory. One older lady I gave one to just did not want it. Was perfectly satisfied with he plain typewriter. She reluctantly tried it and I spent quite a little time showing her how she could throw away the multi colored correction fluid, save paragraphs for letters etc. it took a month but after that she would have killed anyone trying to take her machine away. Of course then it was word processors, email, and computer networks, etc. I understand it’s hard to keep up but the emphasis has to be on what business problem is being addressed.
While we are getting away from cars, I have to comment. Had a typewriter with some memory. Hated it, the memory delayed the familiar click, no longer synchronized with key strokes. Back then, pre-word processors, loved my IBM Selectric .
Yeah like pulling teeth sometimes but if you were doing boiler plate letters, or carbon copies and made a mistake, a selectric was not your friend.