The developmental phase Generation Z finds themselves in is intimacy versus isolation. The internal crisis from 18-25 is that if I don’t know how to connect deeply and intimately to someone else, I will be alone. And since this generation was not permitted to feel pain, discomfort, disappointment, embarrassment, disgust, anger, and anything under the category of a negative emotion; they aren’t connected to themselves. If we can’t connect to our feelings, hear them as messages, and learn to solve our problems, we can’t connect to others. This is not going to change until we are willing to look at our parenting, until we are willing to experience the pain of acknowledging we made mistakes.