The Youth Code

It has become more and more apparent that most parents and just older people in general really don’t know much about today’s youth. Of course as we all get older we start to gain different perspectives about various things.

I have noticed since becoming an adult that the older generations try to apply their own experiences to today’s society…unfortunately, you can’t always do that. Just because you went through a similar thing in the past doesn’t mean you understand whatever the current situation is going now with a younger generation.

The older generations fail to realize that we are dealing with new technology, new drugs, new language, new ideas, new past times, new miscellaneous inventions or improvements to pre existing things. All these factors change everything. 

When older generations see certain behaviors on television or on social media sites, such as, two girls holding on to each other in while taking a photo, most of them would think that these girls are homosexuals. To all of us who see the same scene, we don’t think anything of it as just a couple friends taking a picture. So now you have two sets of generations viewing the same scene with COMPLETELY different ideas of what is going on. Not to say that these behaviors are acceptable. They haven’t seen the progression of what is and is not acceptable conduct amongst the youth in today’s society…

My point with this entry is to let the parents know that they don’t realize that the youth have grown up with a different standard-a different norm than what they have. You have to talk to your children or whomever you are dealing with, don’t jump to conclusions because most of the time you will be 99% wrong in your judgments, thus resulting in expanding that gap between understanding each other. It’s hard for us to understand how our parents or anyone who is older to keep judging us under a different set of “standards”; we all have valuable knowledge to share with each other.

We cannot let the youth be held captive by the world system…so don’t use your experiences from decades ago block you from reaching and communicating with today’s youth. DO NOT JUDGE! What is common sense to you will not always be common sense to others under you….

God Bless