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Welcome to the human race. Every generation says the same thing! “Our generation was not or is not like this”. Anyway, I’m grateful for the pronoun ‘our’, meaning that the one criticizing isn’t part of the generation being criticized.
These days, confusion often erupts between parents and their kids, most especially the teenagers.
I won’t call it a problem because most adults, though they complain, tend to follow the ways of their wards. For instance, a teenage mother laments over how her 18-year-old is so addicted to her phone, and taking a snap of every little thing, from selfies to capturing funny scenes.
In the end, the parents are lured into taking these pics too, and will fall in love with them.
Do you now see why I don’t view this as a problem? It is a great bore when parents say, “back in my days…”
This piece of phrase is mostly not backed by any positive talk because it’s mostly as a result of a complaint. As much as we love them, they frustrate us when they can’t seem to fathom things the way we millennials do.
Childhood and adulthood are two different clashing phases of life.
Our parents turn to hate it when we are with our phones. They seem to have this notion that we’re obsessed with our phones. Consequently, they take every opportunity to fault the phones, as though they steal our love away from them.
“If not for the phone, you would have remembered to perform your chores; if not for the phone, you would have remembered to run the errand”, some parents usually complain.
The fact is that we’re not addicted to phones; they are just our sources of entertainment. We prefer to chat with our friends online instead of meeting with them face-to-face.
Unfortunately, this is one of the things parents do not understand about this generation.
Parents constantly question the motives behind our ripped jeans, cropped tops, and ankle-baring pants. They ask, “why can’t we just wear proper clothes?”
It seems some parents are yet to understand that youngsters of this generation need to keep abreast with modern fashion, so that they do not appear “Kolo”(outmoded).
Do we have to feel inferior because of clothes? Absolutely no!
Dear parents, we need you to understand that being different is not necessarily wrong.
Though you may disagree with our set of ethics and morals, it doesn’t mean that we’re uncultured.
Times change, and so does the mindset.
Our behaviors may portray us in a bad way, but trust me — we’ll figure it out and make you proud someday.
