The thing that gets me about dismissing advice from older people (and I swim in that as a parent of teenagers) is the fallacy that we are not alive and interacting with the current world. It is not like that anymore. I know! I saw it how it was, saw how it has changed, and am more engaged in the current world than you are. Besides wisdom gained from decades of learning and failing and achieving, perhaps the fact that we live in the same house, town and society might be of some value to you?
The one thing I have to check myself on is acknowledging that everyone has to take their own path. That and dumbass mistakes / skewed viewpoints based on convenience and entitlement are a part of the learning path they and even we take.
I can explain it for them but I can’t understand it for them. So, I won’t paint them with the wide younger generation brush and just be here to pick them up when they fall, even if it was because they jammed a stick in their own spokes.
Well said. These people are in their 20s and 30s, talking about people in their 50s as if they have no idea about what is going on. And, have children that they have engaged with, and observed the many issues too.
For sure. But if the path is to blame others for the path taken, isn't that something that should be highlighted?