Ways we fundamentally think differently than our children

I have a grown son of 26, something I really noticed with he and his friends, which is compounding in younger children, is that they don’t speculate. I mean that they have had smart phones for their whole social upbringing and they real time fact check everything. Its not that I don’t want to work off of proper data, I do, but in the course of riffing on an idea older folks that are pre-internet thinkers will float through ideation using place marker facts/points and repairing the outcome in editing. And I mean this could be talking about a hike or some other mundane pub conversation, like ‘you should hit this Jones trail, its like ten miles up the canyon’ and before you can explain the waterfall and eagles nest and killer lunch rock, the kids need to stop the conversation at every point and verify if its ten miles up or thirteen. Ill get to the google map eventually, but lets just talk and fix the facts once we agree that they are needed. It really is just a tempo of conversation kind of thing, but i find many kids just can’t riff or flow because of it. Does anyone else struggle with this? My solution is simple in that I point it out, and I agree that I may seem like a luddite to them but that fast paced, from the top of your head wit is a priceless skill. I am mostly curious if you have those conversations and what they’re like. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2Ujtnkf