And, guess what! They were right.

I don’t think technology makes us stupid. Lazy maybe.

I know I have an attention span problem when I am reading, whether a book or an on line article. I do not have that problem, however, when I am writing. I am not sure of the meaning of this, although I suspect it has something to do with ego.

I, too, think that my generation fell down on the job of being parents. In the West, at least, there was a belief that ‘natural is good’ and children needed little direction or guidance or discipline. That, coupled with the women’s movement that denigrated the occupation of being ‘just a mother,’ really left the kids at lose ends.

Now those kids have kids and absolutely no idea how to raise them.

Who can blame the kids and grandkids for not respecting and wanting to learn from their elders when those elders have always been to busy with their own lives to be examples and role models? I think of Harry Chapin’s song from the 1970s, ‘The Cat’s In The Cradle.’

I do not, however, believe that all is lost. We’ve muddled through – and survived – before, and we will this time, too.

Chardi kala!

Mai Harinder Kaur, TINK