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Do you see the future?

  In the previous century, we could tell our children   to go to school, study hard and get a job.   And it worked out exactly that way. But that approach is no longer working. Now we must teach our children to become problem solvers and independent thinkers.  The challenge is how do we as parents move away from our last century thinking to teach our children how to survive in the twenty-first century ? Our children are growing up in a world that's vastly different from the one that we grew up in. We didn't have internet and cellphones, there was no Google, Facebook, or WhatsApp. We didn't have to deal with cyberbullies. We had to deal with the real flesh and blood bully who would beat you up and terrorise you, and that was bad enough. But he or she had a name and a face.  We definitely didn't have to deal with Covid19 and people close to you and across the world dying. We also could find a job much easier. All we had to do was read and write, send our CV off and then w