A Different Generation

My husband and I realized tonight that our children truly are from a different generation than we are.  In fact, they may be from a whole different world than we are. 

We grew up when cell phones weren't heard of, nobody had a computer at home, there was no such thing as the internet, books were made of paper, and we kept our to-do lists in notebooks.

Our kids have grown up knowing what cell phones are and knowing how to use them.  They've played the computer with confidence almost since they were old enough to sit up on their own.  They never knew a world that didn't have the internet.  They read books on ebook readers or on the iPad.  They keep their to-do lists on the computer or my cell phone.  (Ok.  Sometimes they use sticky notes.  You know--those electronic "sticky notes" on the computer screen!) 

Tonight we were playing a game together.  The boys' team (consisting of my husband and Noah, our 14-year-old son) was supposed to name 5 things in a category.  The category was "surfing terms."  Noah immediately blurted out "LOL" and "ROFL" and other internet slang!  Scott and I laughed, much to the confusion of our children.  Then we patiently explained that surfing terms would be words such as "hang ten" or "catch a wave." 

Yep, we're definitely from different generations!  :)  And that's ok.