For our family vacation this year, we drove through parts of New England so our daughters could appreciate the different scenery - the Green Mountains, the coastline, the forests of Maine ... What they mostly saw were the screens of their electronics. This turned me into a shouting tour guide: "Look at that view!" or occasionally, just to make sure they would look up: "Bigfoot!" Fortunately for me and much to my daughters' dismay, they lost cellphone coverage in parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. I didn't blame them for complaining. I didn't go old man on them and tell them (again) that we didn't even have FM radio in our car growing up. "It was a simpler time," as people of every generation invariably say when they reach a certain age. This generation is growing up in an age of constant connectivity - Instagram, Spotify, YouTube and more - it's what they expect.
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