Sep 6, 2026 · 19 min · 9 segments
In this episode, Esther and Melanie have a wee bit of a rant about how our next generation of kids is struggling with elements of tech. Have you noticed this? Are they showing less interest in…
Esther OcampoHost
Melanie BoylanHost
I think it's because they are afraid of trying new things, of breaking things, of making themselves look bad.
And I think a lot of this is actually to do with how they're perceived by their peers.
And even if they don't do that, at that age and I remember it as well we we care about what people think about us yeah
yeah oh I fully agree with you I mean I remember the first time and it's recently like my my kids are teens um so 16 and 14 and very recently I had to tell one of them to turn it off and turn it back on again and he looked at me as if I had two heads like what's that got to do with it but that That's just the general, you know, if you were to phone up to Microsoft or Apple or something and say, I've got a problem, they would tell you to first turn it off and turn it on again.
But what we feel to add into that, because with us who grew up through the digital revolution.
would be you wait the 10 seconds you know that to us is well that's logical that's normal because that's what we were told to do but we forget to tell the younger generation because they should know this stuff you know we automatically think well they were born with it they you know like melanie says digital natives you know there should be no issues but just like we've talked about in previous podcasts where we've said you know my nephew will run my facebook account They know nothing about Facebook and how it works because they're not on it.
And I think to a certain extent, we've kind of wasted this generation's of teenagers and young people on ourselves because we spent a lot of time doing it for them and taking over.
Um, to a large extent, um, although I have put my foot down over the last year, but it's taken this long.
on ourselves because we were told to be that much more independent and more, and I think we're less distracted than the kids were back at the same age.
I think it's because they are afraid of trying new things, of breaking things, of making themselves look bad.
And I think a lot of this is actually to do with how they're perceived by their peers.
And even if they don't do that, at that age and I remember it as well we we care about what people think about us yeah
yeah oh I fully agree with you I mean I remember the first time and it's recently like my my kids are teens um so 16 and 14 and very recently I had to tell one of them to turn it off and turn it back on again and he looked at me as if I had two heads like what's that got to do with it but that That's just the general, you know, if you were to phone up to Microsoft or Apple or something and say, I've got a problem, they would tell you to first turn it off and turn it on again.
But what we feel to add into that, because with us who grew up through the digital revolution.
would be you wait the 10 seconds you know that to us is well that's logical that's normal because that's what we were told to do but we forget to tell the younger generation because they should know this stuff you know we automatically think well they were born with it they you know like melanie says digital natives you know there should be no issues but just like we've talked about in previous podcasts where we've said you know my nephew will run my facebook account They know nothing about Facebook and how it works because they're not on it.
And I think to a certain extent, we've kind of wasted this generation's of teenagers and young people on ourselves because we spent a lot of time doing it for them and taking over.
Um, to a large extent, um, although I have put my foot down over the last year, but it's taken this long.
on ourselves because we were told to be that much more independent and more, and I think we're less distracted than the kids were back at the same age.
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