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The older generation always says that the younger one is weird. Young people don’t behave like they did; don’t do what they did and so on. It has always been and it will always be so. And this is absolutely natural because time passes and so everything becomes different.

Our parents can hardly understand how to use all these devices we have now, how we can listen to such a noisy unpleasant music and watch all those dreadful  films. In fact, they used to do and have the same things, except for computers and smartphones, as we do. The reason why they sometimes can’t understand us is because they are older.

They think differently and see everything in a different way. They are not longer adolescents and we are not really adults yet. Even if we feel confident and independent, it is not actually so. The same goes for our attitude to an even younger generation.

We look at all these children with smartphones, chatting and posting photos and their “wise thoughts” and we get shocked sometimes. It seems that they don’t behave as we did when we were children and we can’t understand why they want to grow up. They don’t even know how difficult it is to be an adult.

Thus, the generation gap is a typical phenomenon we all face and deal with. It is inevitable and it causes a lot of quarrels and arguments. However, they are all useless. We should accept the fact that we are all different but this doesn’t mean any of us does something wrong. It is just the course of nature.

Family is an essential part of every person’s life and of our society. Family is a little world with its own values and priorities. Close families share dreams, ideas, hopes and even possessions, and it’s a good side of being a family. However, as usual, every good thing can have its drawbacks. Same with families: they can often have different types of problems. One of the most frequent and common problems is the misunderstanding between parents and children, due to the difference of generations. This problem is especially acute with teenagers, who want to have more freedom, to express their self-identity in a way they want to. They can also gradually develop different values and interests which conflict with those of their parents. During this complicated periods, parents should rather try to understand their children, find the right approach to them, or find the ways to solve the conflicts. It’s important to talk about the family problems openly to solve them. There are also many problems in modern young families, which might be based on misunderstanding, shortage of money, bad conditions of living and else. Family conflicts often occur because of change of interests. To solve such kind of problems families should try to spend more time together. Another variety of problems occurs in extended families, between brothers and sisters. They often quarrel or treat each other badly. They can also get jealous about parents’ attention. From one hand, nobody wants to share and many people prefer they had more privacy and freedom. From the other hand, life without siblings would be boring. There are many other problems which can take place in any family, but when regarded with love, respect and understanding, every problem can be solved. 

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