Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.
My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.
The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.