MILLENIALS

I often wonder why my 10 year old grand daughter Sunny, who’s been living with us for a while, isn’t outside playing hopscotch or riding her bike…can it be because kids her age, and many of her 4^th grade friends are into electronics of all kinds?

Yup! I read an article today and discovered she’s one of those kids under 12 sometimes called millenials, generation next-ers or the net-generation who have computers, cell phones, digital cameras, Nintendo wireless DS Wi-Fi games and the new i-Pod Touch…they have a comfort level with different races, ethnicities and cultures, something baby boomers and generation X-ers didn’t always have…and, this generation is likely to be in debt partly because getting a college degree is important to them…Sunny has already asked me what it costs to go to college and how to get scholarships…at her age I was interested in getting a new baseball glove, playing hockey and watching TV…

In ten or so years she’ll be questioning her parents, and after graduating from college, get a job, work side by side with 60 year olds and not be afraid to ask her employers what the heck those old people are doing there…