NEED TO BRIDGE GENERATION GAP

Children from birth to about 12 years are also captives in their own homes.They are under constant supervision by their parents.Children are continuously directed what to do and what not to do.What to eat, what to wear and what not to.Every step is continuously supervised.This supervision seems quite purposeful as children lack money to look after for themselves on their own.But problem arises when parents go beyond their limits in using their power to regulate their children.One common  shortcoming among people is use of their power freely.One needs strength of character to have all power and use it untill essentially required .

Children are majorly scapegoat of the abuse of power due to inability of parents’ to relate to their children.Parents believe that younger generation has turned confrontational, aggressive and uncontrollable sometimes. Parents do not usually realise the problem of failed relationships, which arises from the lack of wisdom to assess the psychological traits of their kids.Parents operate from emotional pressures arising from their attached sentiments towards their children, almost choking children  with their ‘ love’ and ‘ care’.Thus parents  need to realise their  weakness of suffocating them with love and do a carefull study about the individual nature of their children.

Children are neither burdened about  worries of  past nor have any anxities about future and thus have tremendous energy , on the other hand adults are burdened with worry and anxiety making them tired and fatigued. Both the young children and adult are completely unaware of this disparity between them. The solution is not in choking childrens’ actions but in giving their tremendous energy a proper direction.

Beside the differences in energy levels between the young and the old, there is also difference  in their temperaments also. Children have natural ability to learn new concepts and ideas sooner than their elders. This explains their attachment to newer trends and fashions earlier than grown-ups. Parents take time to accept and absorb anything new.This disproportionality  in time for imbibing  of new ideas/ ways of living causes generation gap.

Hence it becomes the parents’ prime responsibility to realise and repect the existence of the natural disparity of levels both in the physical and mental makeup of young generation and the old. Regrettably, the well-wishing parents also fail to acknowledge the existence of these dazzling differences in nature.Instead , they treat this harsh problem with an iron hand.

However, if parents desire their young generation  to adopt a better lifestyle, change from indescent way of living to a disciplined way of living, they must have and live with values themselves. They must set an example of living the higher values of life.But parents themselves do not set an example and keep on ordering children to be disciplines.There lies double fault and this can’t that way.

It is rightly said that “ you can’t clap with one hand.”

Albert Einstein had rightly quoted that “ setting an example  is not the only means of influencing others, it is one of the means.”

This type of generation gap also exist in corporate life of children when they grow up and face difficult situations while dealing with senior colleagues of almost double of their age and also for aged working staff when he/she had to handle team of young adults in their early twenties.

It becomes prime concern of HR department that misunderstandings  if anyare timely settled  for the well being of both aged staff and young generation staff.