We're Not Stupid

...at least most of us are not stupid.

But our parents never seem to (fully) realize this.

If you look back and examine the history of the human species, we kept improving ourselves and creating more tools and exploring more things in this world throughout all the previous millenniums. Each generation learned something, especially mistakes, from previous generations and that was how countless revolutions took place.

But this thing called "change"... is always painfully slow.
Either because we're not ready for it, or... we (younger people) are ready for it but people born in the previous generation stands in our way.

Not all changes are good. But certain ways of thinking clearly have to change. (It's impossible that our mindsets are all identical to our parents'.)

We're now in the Information Age. Almost everywhere we go, information is saturated. With the help of technology, we get to learn about things on a global scale every single day. The speed at which we're exposed to new information is many times faster than that of our parents when they were young.

As a result, what we know, our parents do not.
What our parents know might or might not be applicable to us.
This is totally fine. As long as they don't think they're always right!!

If you feel like your parents don't understand you, and constantly disagree with you, most probably because they cannot identify with you. It's not their fault they can't, because they don't have the capability to begin with. They weren't brought up and trained (by the environment and the society) in the same way as we were. And since they've lived for this many years, certain ways of their thinking are locked, inflexible, and virtually impossible to alter. (To make things worse, they don't seem to realize it.)

We're not stupid. We don't just accept everything we hear into our logical mind. After being told something, we would, like it or not, look for evidence in the real world to support (or reject) what we have been told.
Therefore, sometimes, what our parents tell us sounds untrue in our ears, because with their experiences in the past, it's true to them, but with our own experiences we've gathered so far, it's not true to us.
How can we accept what they tell us if it's like this?

It's fine. It's fine.
Actually it's not fine, but we can only proceed as if it was.
What our parents did, but shouldn't have done, to us, we don't do to our children.
What our parents did not do, but should have done, to us, we do to our children.

That's about the only thing we can do.