As many people can agree, the newer younger generations do not have a close relationship with the older generation. While this does not pose a serious problem, it does affect certain parts of life. Today, we will be discussing the causes of this.
One of the first causes is technology. Technology rapidly changes, and the new generations follow that change. The new generations will spend more time on that technology, which causes them to spend less time on their relationship with older generations, which do not use technology as often, which is a problem.
Another cause is the academic competition. Many parents have the idea that their child has to be the most talented in every aspect of life, which causes them to pile more and more extracurricular activities onto their children, some of them unwanted. This not only leaves less time to be spent on maintaining their relationship with older generations, but also can build negative feelings directed at the parents, for putting so much pressure onto the new generation.
With this said, the older generations seem to have lofty ideals for the new generation, but they also put lots of pressure on the children to never mess up, while also telling children that it is okay to take risks. This can predictably lead to the weakening of ones relationship with the older generations. I think what we should do is to respect the older generation for caring about us, but also the older generation should listen to the younger generations input, instead of writing them off as too naive or stupid to know about things in the world. The younger generation actually knows a lot more than the older generations think they do, so the older generations should listen to the younger generations input.
