Generational Differences

Although parents views are different from their offspring Generational Differences can imprint on both parent and child. Every parent and child have different experiences when growing up be it with sports, new technology, or video games.

My father, to begin with, was adamant on only the misuse of cell phones he did not like to have them used improperly they were for emergencies. He was always the one to advocate spending time with the kids outside playing sports like he used to. By knowing him in his younger years he was always active. To put it in perspective, he was a popular football player in high school while his only son was a gym class hero. Living in that shadow made being there much harder to live up to because the teachers knew him, but for the son, he had to make his own path and although it was the path less traveled it was viable enough to make it through the latter of high school and make a mark even if it was a small unforgettable experience. That involved hitting an inside the park homerun at the High school stadium. It hardly ever occurred, but going outside to play some football with someone whose whole life was on

But it was not the real thing like he used to do, it was a video game after all the son did not like to play because the father would always win and a few times the son would win, most likely by losing on purpose on the father’s part. Fast forward to modern times the son is playing a game while the father left that behind to go do something productive while the son is off at college studying playing games, yes, but not as much as before when the father was playing them