A digital like cannot replace a physical hug.

And there's a lot of people who are just trying to find their identity through social media

or internet, you know, alone apart from real incarnational relationships.

I think the pandemic really exacerbated the loneliness that was there before.

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Do you think the issues that our kids are dealing with today are different than 2025 years ago?

Completely different.

Yeah, I think.

Well, like when we were parents and we're raising kids in the 90s, early 2000s,

and that wouldn't we raise them?

Yeah.

I could hardly remember.

Are the issues totally different for parents with their kids in 2023?

I think they are.

And mainly I say that because of social media.

It's totally different.

Now, are there issues like bullying, loneliness, not being able to get along all of that's true,

but it looks different today because of social media, I think.

And I think it's heightened today.

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