I'm Hello, beautiful beings, and welcome back to another expand podcast with yours truly, Elizabeth April.

Today, I want to talk about a topic that has been concerning not only myself, but many people,

for quite a long time.

And I want to talk about the future generation, the next gen.

Now, years ago, I was extremely concerned.

I would walk around, I would see children as early as really a baby or the age of two, having their parents put a

cell phone or a tablet right in front of them.

And these children are constantly being overstimulated all the time with basically with

nonsense.

And it's a little bit disconcerning.

Now, I'm kind of in myself, in this weird generation.

I'm definitely in the middle of the millennial generation. I was born in 1992, so I kind of have half and half. I mostly grew up without technology. Yeah, we had the internet, but it was very rarely used.

We used the computer for, say, a word document or something like that when I was in elementary or high school.

But once again, I mean, we really didn't Google a whole lot of things.

I didn't have a cell phone until I was like 14, 15 years old,

you know, and even then it was a flip phone, right? And so these children are now growing up

in the age of technology, which is a little bit disconcerning. When I was, you know, eight, nine, ten years old, I would play

an epic game of manhunt with all of my friends in the neighborhood, or we would all play tag,

or do cartwheels in the front yard, or climb fences and scrape our knee. You know, that's just what

we did, and it was so much fun to do that.

And nowadays, you know, I drive around suburbia,

and I don't see kids out at all.

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