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Kids Grow up Fast, Adults Grow Old Slow By Matt Britton (Millennial Expert Keynote Speaker)

Name: Kids Grow up Fast, Adults Grow Old Slow By Matt Britton (Millennial Expert Keynote Speaker)
Uploaded: 2018-10-17T03:26:37Z
Channel: Matt Britton
Description: Excerpt from a keynote by Matt Britton arguing that children today ‘grow up fast’ due to early exposure to screens and social media. The speaker recounts…

17 Oct 2018

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Excerpt from a keynote by Matt Britton arguing that children today ‘grow up fast’ due to early exposure to screens and social media. The speaker recounts visiting a remote village in Laos with the charity Pencils of Promise, showing an iPhone to a child who had never seen his face, and contrasts that with children in developed settings who learn social media behaviors by age three or four.

So why are kids growing up fast? Well, when they're born, instead of seeing their caring mother's eyes, a lot of times they're actually staring at themselves in the screen that they've actually never even seen before. I'm very active in this charity called Pencils of Promise that builds schools for underage children around the world. And I was in Laos in Southeast Asia, and we went to a very small, remote village where there's no running water and no electricity, and I had an iPhone, and I showed it to a kid where the camera is facing inbound, and he had never seen his face before because they didn't have mirrors in that village. Right. So let's think about that. Eight years old, had no idea what he looked like. And this is a parent right now growing up, staring at their face. And when they're three to four, they're already learning to be social media hipsters, being dressed up, having exposed information, and then having the status committees where they're gonna circle back at 3 o', clock, all with their devices. They're growing up very.