Recently, my teenage daughter was asked by a teenage boy, whom she didn’t know, if she wanted a boyfriend. She responded, “Yes, I guess, if I like him.” He then asked for her number. By the end of the day, they had exchanged at least a dozen texts about essentially nothing. He was now signing his electronic communications with the words “I love you” and others with multiple x’s and o’s.
Our kids are growing up in an age of instant gratification. Young people have the expectation (and experience) that they should be able to get what they want, now, with very little or no work.
