What are generational differences?

Generational differences are the ways people born at different times act and think because they had different experiences growing up.

Imagine you have a toy box full of toys, some are old, some are new. Kids who grew up with the oldest toys might play differently than kids who got the newest ones. That’s like generational differences!

Each generation is like a group of kids who all got similar toys. For example:

• A generation that grew up in the 1980s had VHS tapes and big hair.
• A generation that grew up in the 2010s has smartphones and TikTok.

Just like how you might prefer playing with blocks over video games, people from different generations have different favorite ways of doing things because they played with different toys, or lived through different times.

So when we say "generational differences," we're just saying that people born at different times grew up with different experiences, and that shapes how they act and think today.