11/05/2026
As a jiu-jitsu instructor, educator, and father of three children, I am writing this text to share a concern that grows inside me every day. I have spent many years working closely with children, teenagers, and families, and I can clearly see a deep emotional shift happening right before our eyes. I am not writing this as someone who has all the answers, but as a father and educator who sincerely observes, feels, and worries about the future of the next generation.
We live in a time where we have never had so much access to technology, comfort, entertainment, and information. Yet, paradoxically, we have never seen so many anxious, emotionally fragile, and emotionally dependent children. As writer and psychologist Augusto Cury often warns, we are building a society that is intellectually accelerated but emotionally unprepared.
Our children are growing up in an environment of excess: excess screen time, stimulation, comparisons, pressure, and distractions. Many learn how to use technology before they even learn how to deal with frustration, silence, loss, and the basic emotions of life. We are raising children who are highly connected to the digital world, yet often disconnected from themselves, their families, and their spirituality.
Parents themselves are also becoming emotionally exhausted. They live tired, anxious, overwhelmed, and consumed by the pressure to produce, pay bills, and keep up with a society that never slows down. Without realizing it, many bring this anxiety into their homes. Emotionally fragile children often become insecure adults with low tolerance for the inevitable hardships of life.
Augusto Cury speaks about what he calls the “Accelerated Thought Syndrome,” caused by the constant overload of information and stimulation. According to him, the human mind has never been so bombarded. The result is a restless, impatient, anxious, and emotionally drained generation. We are losing the ability to contemplate, listen, reflect, and develop emotional intelligence.
There is also a deep concern about the weakening of the spiritual and human foundations of society. Many young people are growing up without strong references of purpose, discipline, faith, emotional responsibility, and lasting values. In a culture that encourages instant pleasure and constant validation, any frustration feels unbearable. We are suffering more, not necessarily because life has become worse, but because we are becoming less emotionally prepared to face it.
The greatest danger is not only the rise of emotional disorders themselves, but the normalization of a permanently anxious, superficial, and disconnected lifestyle. We are learning to consume more and feel less. To talk more and listen less. To appear more and reflect less.
As a jiu-jitsu instructor, I see every day how discipline, respect, self-control, and resilience can still transform lives. Children need boundaries, presence, guidance, and strong examples. They need to learn that life involves frustration, effort, patience, and emotional balance. They need present parents more than perfect parents.
That is why my concern about my children’s future goes far beyond professional or financial success. My concern is about who they will become emotionally, spiritually, and humanly. What kind of adults are we raising? People who are strong enough to face life, or people dependent on approval, distraction, and instant gratification?
Perhaps the greatest challenge of this generation is to recover what modern life is slowly suffocating: presence, dialogue, spirituality, family bonds, self-control, inner silence, and emotional health. Because no technology will ever replace a balanced mind, a strengthened heart, and an emotionally present family.
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