At what point do older people stop understanding younger people
By Nnaemeka
@mydanods (6513)
Nigeria
March 4, 2018 1:50am CST
Older people have a lot in their favor. They have the experience. They have lived 50-70 years and should know a lot about the world and its ways. They have a lot to teach other younger people. But I find that this is not always the case. Older peoples all the time seem not to understand the younger generation. There is a gap; a void that makes one wonder why.
So, I was wondering: at what point in their lives do older people stop understanding younger people?
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@sprite1950 (30461)
• Corsham, England
4 Mar 18
I don't know if they stop understanding but they have probably made mistakes and can see a younger person heading the same way and want to protect them, certainly when it comes to parents. I'm older and had some real rows with my kids about things they wanted to do but now they are grown up they understand why I tried to stop them.
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@sprite1950 (30461)
• Corsham, England
4 Mar 18
@mydanods Sure I do. I am old school, there's nothing wrong with that. Everyone will be old school one day. We can't stop the passing of time or differences in thinking between the generations.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
4 Mar 18
the younger generation should understand the older people before the older will understand the younger.
an example is what i read on Facebook about a tattooed woman who is in the cashier asking a woman to have her own plastic bag because 'apparently the woman did not think about the future green thing, to which the woman responded as-- before, they use paper bags instead of plastic bags, milk were in bottles and given back to be cleansed thoroughly for refilling, rather than those tetra-packs that will be disposed of after using...'
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@mydanods (6513)
• Nigeria
5 Mar 18
@ridingbet Not some young people; many young people. They tend to look down on older people because they are frail.
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@mydanods (6513)
• Nigeria
4 Mar 18
That is the question. Why don't they understand themselves. Putting the blame on the younger people won't help matters. There are lots of young people that try to understand the older people but they can't. The gap is just there all the time. Why do the older people stop; they just turn their systems off to the younger people.
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
5 Mar 18
@mydanods it can be the other way around. some young people refuse to listen to the older ones.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Mar 18
When observing how stupid young people are.
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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4 Mar 18
As with many young people today when I was their age I felt I knew more than my elders. As you grow up and become more experienced in what life is all about you realize those older people were not so dumb after all.
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