I met Rachel this morning after presenting to her Indian Church in San Jose. I shared with them about the difficult job of raising kids in the digital age. Interestingly, this community has it even harder than many of us because none of those parents were born in America.
They have come to this country, trying to maintain their culture at home, while their kids are growing up as Americans, influenced like any child growing up on any campus around the U.S.
So, while none of us grew up with an iPhone in our back pockets, these families also did not grow up in the American culture that many of us grew up with. A very challenging dynamic.
I was welcomed so warmly with smiles, and parted with handshakes, gratitude and a line of loving and concerned parents with questions afterwards.
What a blessing to be able to educate parents and empower them to step into this confusing and vastly different culture they are raising their kids in.
My parting words: “Our kids need to learn to be comfortable being different.” Of course no teenager wants to be different, but if they are so busy trying to be someone else, the world misses out on the unique person God created them to be.
