Generation Gap

Generation gap is a problem of many people. Almost everybody experienced it. And every generation has misunderstanding, conflicts and problems with other generations.

Teenagers develop and this period of their lives is full of excitement, experiments and conflicts. They argue on every topic.

The world changes and people change too, they adapt the modern world. And every next generation understands the modern world better. They study new technologies better and faster than previous generations. Be sure that your child understands everything and knows a lot about modern life.

The moral values also change. To illustrate this fact the only thing we need to do is to watch the history of women rights. Nowadays women are strong and hard-working. They prefer career, business and money to family and taking care of babies. Before, their main duty was to keep house and to watch kids.

But parents think that they know everything about the world and want to save their children from negative influence of the world and society in particular. They want to prevent negative experience of their children. But just the opposite thing happens. The protest is the reaction of teens on such care. Their protest is manifested in their original clothes, multicoloured hair, piercing, tattoos of huge sizes, etc. Children consider their parents to be too old to teach them. So they stop obeying their parents and spend days and nights in clubs and discos enjoying the modern way of life. They visit their homes only to ask their parents for some money. And of course parents meet them with scandals.

As a result teens protest more and escape from their houses trying to get money using violence. And this is the reason for juvenile delinquent. Some of them even start to take drugs and alcohol that may harm children's health. They become emotionally unstable and start to argue and fight with other people.

The opinion of friends is much more important for them so they don't pay attention to advices of their parents and simply ignore them.

But what should be done to maintain positive atmosphere in the family? First of all parents should understand that their child is a well-formed personality that has his/her own needs. Some of these needs should be satisfied. You must explain to your child what is wrong. A happy and understanding family is always ready to support a child.

And a child should always remember that its parents are the only people whom it can always rely on. Parents are the only people that will help you in any situation.

And generation gap is not a problem for the family if both parents and children are ready to experience and to make a compromise. Sometimes parents may give really good recommendations.