LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor,

I have read the article about the generation gap between ‘rebellious young’ and ‘mystified parents’ and I was utterly pleased to see that other readers were invited to give their opinion on the subject.

Generation gap is that major reason why parents and children are moving away from each other. As we all know, the environment has changed so has the lifestyle and the children’s attitude toward life. However, the old generations still live in the past. They try to impose the old ways of thinking and behaving on their children. Thus, a huge inevitable distance occurs.

Our parents think that the time of their childhood was better than the today’s. They believe that they were well-behaved, studious, stricter and more pressurized. They do not estimate the stress we live in, how much is required from us and how our childhood is limited to minimum. They consider their past as simpler, better and happier. However, they do not take into account the new developed facilities, the entertainments and the opportunity we are given. For them the past is what is really worthy.

Moving next, the parents are nostalgic about the past days. They hold dare for something that will never happen again. Parents do not want to accept that their children have different thinking, opportunities, surrounding and diverse priorities. They can’t stand the truth that we, these days generation, believe in something completely disparate from what they believed. Therefore, the generation gap still exists and will always exist. Because every generation has its typical surrounding -technologies, education, media, standards of living which influence the way of thinking, developing and behaving.

It strikes me that this problem is faced by people of every part of globe but still nobody can find a proper solution. Maybe parents and children will never find something in common? Perhaps they will be always in fight!

Yours faithfully,

Maria Prashkova