Passing the torch of riding to the Next Gen

The next generation is almost always held with some level of distaste by the generation that currently has buying power.  The “in my day” and “when I was young” almost certainly leads to some explanation of how it was then vs how it is now.  And to a level many of those generalities can be linked back to some level of truth, somewhere.
The challenge is when we assume the entire lot is of a certain belief, mindset, or generally not ready to have the torch passed to it.  I believe that growing up takes longer now.  Several reasons for this: labor laws, helicopter parents, professional lawn care services lol, you name it, they all have changed the way our kids grow up.  In many ways not for the better.

The Millennial generation along with those coming after it are the first to grow up with devices and internet at their constant disposal.  You no longer have to go somewhere to learn something, you simply need to google it.  This alone is not an issue. It’s very powerful to have the world literally at your fingertips.  With great power comes great responsibility it would seem.  We have all found ourselves more buried into our tech than we would like at one time or another.  Device addiction doesn’t just hit Millennials but all of us in one way or another.

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