Are You Still Not Sure Why Your Kids Are Acting That Way?

Are You Still Not Sure Why Your Kids Are Acting That Way?

Being a parent nowadays is hard enough as it is and I know that you and your kids not seeing eye to eye adds more to your already overly stressed out daily grind.

But if you are one and you still couldn’t figure out what the hell happened? And you are still at a lost at what brought about that huge "generation gap" between you and your child...

or if you do not know what’s this great divide between you and your parents and worst your children and their grandparents or great grandparents,...

then I will try to give a simple answer.

In the 1950s:

• The in thing was the “Hula Hoop” (yeah for real), “Mr. Potato Head”, “Barbie Dolls”, dance halls and band stands.
• Kids watch “Lassie”, “Tom and Jerry”, “Walt Disney” and “Mickey Mouse”.
• People watch television shows such “I Love Lucy”, “Rin TinTin”, “Lassie” and “Leave It To Beaver”.
• People would go to the movie houses and watch films such as “Singing In The Rain”.
• People listen to Bing Crosby, Perry Como and Frank Sinatra.
• Parents were preventing their kids to emulate the likes of Elvis Presley or Jerry Lee Lewis.
• Fast food chains such as McDonalds, Pizza Hut and drive-thru windows were just starting out.

And yes, a gallon of gasoline costs less than 20 cents.

In the 1980s:

• The in thing was “Rubik’s cube”, Microsoft’s MSDOS Operating System, “Pac Man” and “Space Invaders”.
• Kids watch “Sesame Street”, “Scooby-Doo” and “WWF Wrestling”.
• People watch television shows such “The Cosby Show”, “Growing Pains”, MacGyver” and “Dallas”.
• People would go to the movie houses and watch films such as “E.T.”, “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi”.
• People listen to ABBA, U2, Madonna, Culture Club and Duran Duran.
• Parents were preventing their kids to emulate the likes of Michael Jackson, at least when people can still tell that he was Michael Jackson.
• And by this time, prayer has been taken out of the Public School System for the last 20 years.
• Microwave ovens and microwave cooking first came about, so no more waiting and no more whining. Food- to-go and drive-thrus were very much in common, hamburger, hotdog, pizza chains name it they have it. And people also go out for Chinese, Indian and other exotic foods.

From 2001 to 2010:

• The in thing is the “iPod”, the “Wii”, the “PSP” and the “iPad”.
• Kids watch “iCarly”, “Degrassi:Next Generation”, “The Last Air Bender” and many other Anime shows.
• But they also watch much more wrestling matches, the MMA, “South Park”, reality shows and a whole lot more with the hundreds of different channels on cable or satellite TV, 24/7..
• People watch television shows such “Punkd”, “Desperate Housewives”, “24” and “Nip/Tuck”.
• People would go to the movie houses and watch films such as the Harry Potter Series, “Broke Back Mountain”, “The Grudge” and “The Saw”.
• People listen to Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Linkin Park.
• Parents were preventing their kids to emulate the likes of Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears.
• Prayer, the Bible and Christians are almost totally offensive to most people.
• Aside from what people eat in the 1980s only in much bigger quantities, today you can add genetically modified food into the staple diet.

• The in things were board games, “Raggedy Ann”, “Crayola” and the good old fashioned radio.
• People did not watch television in the 1920s, they did not have anything to watch, not until the 1930s when regular television broadcasting came about. And for some time there was only one channel.
• People would go to the movie houses and watch silent (no-talkies) black and white movies such as that of Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino.
• People listen to George Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
• Parents were preventing their kids to emulate the likes of (I can’t really say who, I’m not that old).
• Blue Laws were in effect, where people were prohibited by law to do many activities during Sunday. And yes, most people obey the law.
• Food preparation and meals are still home-made, mostly thoroughly prepared and cooked meats, potatoes, fruits and veges. Processed foods have started to go main-stream. Soda drinking went on the upswing as a result of the Prohibition but of course it is much much worse now.

Anyway, we can go on and on on how it was back then and how it is now, but I guess you can see the point. And now hopefully, you can figure out why there is such a huge divide.

Hub Number: #035

Date: 2010-September-04

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