The younger generations know better than their parents.

You and your freind, both are right at their own places...... Ofcourse, our parents are much elder than us. They came on this Earth before us and they know about this world lot more than us. They are much experienced than us and they want us to walk on right path......... On the other hand, new technolodies and things are taking over the world day by day. Our parents dont know as much as we know about these things. so, younger generation may know more than their parents but they lack in experience in front of their parents.....

Hi smzli7, Things have been that way for a long time. As long as I can remember, many young people thought that they knew more then their parents. As your friend gets older, he will change his mind. Of course young people today are going to understand more about computers and other new technologies, but that's nothing compared to a knowledge of life. Blessings.

Well in a way both you and your friend are correct. Knowledge and experience are not the same but are interconnected. The older generation is definitely richer in experience but they are less open to newer ideas coz the many ups and downs of life have made them critical of new knowledge and its acceptance. They are more comfortable with the way they have been doing things till now. But the newer generation has no fear in its mind, it does not know the difference between success and failure and hence more open to try out newer technologies, ideas, applications. Children these days are born into houses having all modern gadgets from laptops to mobiles to ipods, to microwaves and dishwashers. 3 / 4 yrs old kids learn how to operate them easily whereas the older generation is less prone to embrace these modern gadgets. They learn, they accept, they use but they will not toy with newer ideas everyday. But kids these days are connecting with the world right from school and hence they know more, accept more, imagine more and experiment more.

hi smzli7, its right that nowadays younger generation is more attractive to new things and technologies, the3y like new things.but other site older generation haves a lot of experience of life and if someone get in some problem they could help him/her more betterly than youngers.

What I think everyone misses in this kind of comparison is TIME.. Things today are not like they were 10,15,20 ore more years ago, yet everyone wants to compare them and you can't do that. Like they keep scrutinizing wars of the past and what we should or should not have done, well, they are using info and knowledge and ways we have today to determine what should have been done years ago, when we didn't have that info. Can't be done - at least "for real" As far as kids/parents go, I am a grand mother and I see the generations - the one I lived, the one my daughter lived and the one my grand daughter is living. I was allowed to go play all over the neighborhood, out on the school lot, across the railroad tracks. Only thing I wasn't allowed to do was cross Highway 39! Could my daughter do that? Heck no. Can my Granddaughter do that? Still heck no! On the other hand, I remember things that my mom said and I thought it was bologna, and now as a mom and grand mother, I understand her answer! Today isn't like yesterday or years ago. you can't raise kids today like they did years ago or there'd be no such thing as a "stay at home mom" as that is what they'd all be anyway and would wonder "what are they talking about - of course we stay at home!". I see my daughter doings things with her daughter or raising ways and I wonder is she doing that cause she thinks it is right or is it cause I did it different for her and she didnt' like it so she "won't do her child that way". On the other hand, I see her doing similar things as the way I raised her, but with a twist to accomodate times today. Interesting subject to think and explore!

I have a little nephew, he is very lovely. When he was 16 months old, he could say lots of words. And he favorite words was "why". I can't remember how I performed when I was 16 months old, but I didn't like asking "why", so he definitely did better than me.

We of the older generation thought the same thing when we were your age. Out prents don't know any thing and understand even lees. but as we got older our parents and that older generation seemed to get a whole lot smater. it my take some of us longer to get into all that tecknickle stuff but some of us get ther right away. Give your friend time and he will catch up on the idea that the older generation is smarted that he thinks right now.

I know more about PCs and other new technologies than my parents. And I dont speak about my grandfathers. Fex my grandmother dont know how to write a text message with cellphone even after I showed a couple of tuzens of times. Older people are less addaptable to new things because their brain are filled with lots of information. And its more difficult to remember new things.

Hi,there! Well,I just think different generations have different ideas.Maybe that's so called "generation gap". We think our parents don't understand us well and our parents also think we don't understand them. I think this is because that we've living in different time and the society is developing faster and faster which makes things changing so quickly.We receive different education from our parents and we enjoy different things in many cases.So you can't definitely say which generation know things better.It just depends on individuals.