Thank you for the comment. I just wanted to let you know I "hid" an earlier one of yours that mostly repeated what was said here.

Sometimes older generations are trying to help the young, I think. But I think what is continually missed (and this has probably always been true) is how different things are now. Even the ways younger people communicate--it's not like we have done a lot of that by choice. I know for me personally I despise my smartphone, but that's where all the work is and how everyone wants to contact me. I prefer email and face to face, but I can only fight the culture for so long.

This is slightly different than it used to be. Things changed, but not as drastically or as fast as they do now. I grew up on a farm and, other than using horses for field work, my life didn't look all that different from my grandparents'. However, my kids' lives? Look completely different from my childhood and my mom's childhood.

I'm trying to do this myself. Less offering my experience, even if I think it might help. More "tell me about how that looks in your life" or "tell me how you work that out," etc.