Generation Gap

It is universally acknowledged that a family in possession of generation gap must be in want of mutual-understanding.

Either because of parents and Children's different growth path and unique environment, or because of their different views cultivated by their time, the generation gap, being the gulf of misunderstanding and self-conceit, deprived parents' opportunities to approach and access to the mind of  their children united with children's chance to get close to their parents physically and psychologically as it stretches its unfavorable length from one family to another.

I think that, from psychological perspective, bridge generation gap reads like building a bridge. It is in need of efforts from both sides, the feeling and energy input coupled with the tolerant of the cycle of zeal and chill during this cross-minding process.

Nothing distresses the parents more than to see their children muddlling away time and astraying in the wrong road according to their world of view, particularly when in the flower of their age, in the very season of pleasure, they waste their few short days of sunshine in wrongdoings, such as addicting to Internet, neglecting their academic achievements and so on, and only perceive their error when it is too late to repair it. However, children deem that parents who, solely from regard to the opinion of themselves, and without and consideration of new ideas and trends, toiling after boring things, such as house, money and fame,is no better than a fool. So the gap formed inch by inch and how to clear the cloud of wrong conceptions of each other looming so large between parents and children.

If parents and  children were not fools, they could endeavor to step one foot towards each other and make a big process in building their ties. As an saying goes like this, it is something invisible that counts. It is essentially to heart-linking that our means of contact should spring from our true feeling and not from the words filled with prejudice and unintended hurtful language. Nothing on this earth affects both heart so much as gentle and warm  voice and heart-to-heart communication. When parents and children talk to each other on the equal footing, I mark in their gentle face the seeds of all those intimate relationship which they will one day find so indispensable; when I behold in the little approach towards each other all the future strong and unseperable blood tie; in the little shyness, that brave and open to embrace each other's ideas which assist them sail through the biggest waves of trouble and achieve for the mountain top of tranquility and happiness.

Once parents and children cross the seemly uncrossable gap, a cordial unanimity of sentiment can be formed and this cherished experience will make an indelible impression upon both their heart and spirit.