Steven John
The author, Steven John, and his son.
- Kids have to go through certain rites of passage, regardless of when they're born.
- However, my kids' lives will be strikingly different than mine in several key ways - like how the internet will shape their lives, their knowledge of environmentalism, and the lack of freedom to roam that I enjoyed.
- Though my kids will never know the feel of a typewriter, they will know an America where we're approaching equality for different types of people.
In many ways, my kids' childhoods will be just like mine, just as my own youth shared so many similarities with that of my parents, they of theirs, and back on it goes.
All kids have to go through certain rites of passage when it comes to friendships, relationships, struggles in school, the establishment of an identity, and all of the other million and one things that make us who we are.
In many other ways, my kids' childhood will be starkly different than those halcyon days of my youth. The world has changed, and the way people approaching parenting has changed.
Here are five ways my children's young lives will be distinctly different than mine: