I even think that some of these restrictions are useful for society, from aesthetic point of view. Today’s young people mostly want to go to pubs and other meeting places, often in the evening and they often want to stay there to the morning. They must, however, only themselves realise what is bad and good for them. Our parents have been educating us and now they have to release us to the real world and believe that they brought us up well. They shouldn’t try to change our lifestyle. They should let us do what we want. They just hope that we want to do things that are o.k., good for us and not dangerous.
Another type of conflicts are problems regarding school and profession. It its obvious that children are not responsible and they don’t care about their future. Parents want the best for their child and want them to have happy future. Children don’t realise what their parents mean and don’t understand that having good grades mean happy future. But In some way children are right. There is no rule, like “be good in mathematis, then you will be successful”. Parents should study their child and try to find out what talents it have and what it likes to do. They should support him in anything reasonable. I think everyone is goot at something. Children of course don’t know what they want to be when they grow up. They just know what they want to do now. Parents should be able to discriminate it. Anyway, they shouldn’t force children to go to balet or painting courses and other perfect child’s spare time activities, unless they themselves ask them to.
Let’s do a little summary. There are many types of conflicts between younger and older generation. I think this problems have roots in misunderstanding of each other. Parents have gained much more experience and look at the world differently than children do. They try to explain and interpret these experiences to children. These things are sometimes difficult to believe, when not experienced at own, and at certain age, children may not accept it any more. This was about child vs. parent. Let’s look at another Generation Gap hot topic. It is old people and society. Ages ago oldest person was the most respected one in the community. But now we don’t pay much attention to old people.
According to me, this is connected with changes in lifestyle and even with technical progress. Living standard has rapidly risen in latest years. Life became nicer, better but running faster as well. Therefore it seems shorter and that’s the reason why we became more egoistic. We want to live and don’t want to look after others.