Age Gap

Recently, during class we talked about the age gap between parents and their children. Though I did not input anything into the discussion, I thought it was interesting philosophy.

I decided to write a blog about it, since my parents are 38 and 33 years older than me. This is a rather large gap, considering some parents are only 18 or 20 years older than their children, and mine are nearly double that.

I’m not that close with my parents. I’m not sure if that’s because of the age gap, but I’m sure it could be a factor. I don’t go to them with my problems, which could be because they don’t understand the norms of society today. They know that things have changed, and know that certain things are accepted now that weren’t when they were younger, but they haven’t quite accepted those things themselves. This is rather frustrating for my brother and I.

I have also noticed that my parents don’t quite understand technological advancement. My generation tends to simply accept it without thinking, though we may be the ones at fault there. I didn’t have a microwave up until a couple years ago, simply because my parents didn’t figure that we needed one. We had a stove, why would we need a microwave?

I’ve asked some friends about rules their parents have made, and rules that my parents have made seem to be quite different from theirs. A lot of my friends have no curfew, or a very late one. My parents had to be in before dark when they were younger, and so in today’s society, they figure that 10 is generous. This could be only because of their childhood, but also influenced because of their generation.