Children like their parents?!

Apr 29, 2010 15:29

In the break room at work rests a newspaper with a headline boldly proclaiming: "Study Shows, Teens Actually Like Parents."

The article is about how the entertainment industry is changing how they portray the teen/parent relationship. They're starting to show kids respecting their parents and dealing with consequences of their actions. At the same time, parents are getting younger, acting more like big brothers or sisters, and often have to deal with almost as many consequences as their kids do.

The article says some of the changes are to appease parents, as their children tend to emulate the attitudes of their favorite characters. But some of the changes are being made because in polling kids they're finding out that they actually like their parents.

I think it's funny that this is newsworthy.

My personal opinion is that this is because most parents of teenagers today probably came of age late 80s, early 90s, and I don't think attitudes, views on life and world issues, have really changed that much since then.

I can't tell for sure. I wasn't an adult in the 80s or 90s, so I don't have the proper perspective here, but it seems to me that we're dealing with many of the same issues today as we were 20 years ago. So parents in college in 1992 might have a much closer worldview to their 16-year-old than a parent who was in college in 1972 had to theirs, or '62, or '52 for that matter.

Views on major issues shifted so drastically from one generation to the next for most of the 20th century. It's no wonder kids rebelled against their parents. Their parents were so out of touch, after all. Very uncool.

I have a brother who is ten years younger than me, and several friends still in high school, and I relate to them perfectly. I mean, we like different things, of course. (I would never have been into Mylie Cyrus at ANY age.) But still, I don't feel like I'm speaking a different language, or that I have act differently around them than my friends who are my own age. We basically see things the same.

I'm wondering if this could be the first generation in a long time to be able to have that relatability to their parents.

Or maybe I'm way off. :)

Just my random thought for the day.

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