Parents need to stop preparing kids for one lifelong job and tying their identity to work. Instead, help Gen Z pursue problems they care about, build meaningful skills, and figure out how to live alongside AI.
We need to move away from preparing kids for jobs because jobs are going to change, and that much we can guarantee. And that also means moving away from coupling identity to jobs. We have to move away from that entire philosophy, right? That, that idea that we learn, we work, we retire. That's all changing. So instead, we encourage kids to lean into the problems that they want to solve, the skills that they want to adopt, and the amazing ways that they want to change the world. I mean, tell kids about the robots and the AI systems that they'll be living with and ask them what they want to do with it.
I think this is so important for us as parents to realize that the way we thought about work is completely different with Gen Z. It's really about alignment, and that's what she's focusing on. She's saying, what aligns with you? What problems do you want to solve? And that to me is the mindset that we have to make as parents when we see our adult child struggling through their quarter-life crisis.
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