What have we learned from our children?
What we learn from our children
Our children got something from us, but do we get something from our children? We find the world hard and fast, but are we not old-fashioned and have our judgment done too quickly?
We raise our children in good faith. We try to give them standards and values, and we hope for the best, because we also know that we live in a fast society and that technology is much more involved than when we were young. In a few years, no one will know what a pen or pencil is, because everything will only be done with the PC or can do it with words alone. Certain things that we had to learn at school, they no longer have to learn. I remember when we got a grade for writing at school. No, not for the language, but for the beautiful writing. Now the writing by hand is hardly used!
We believe that our children no longer have values and values, that they become insensitive to what is happening in the world, but also in their environment. We believe that our children are hard at the elderly and the sick. We think the world has changed a lot compared to our youth.
But we must also remember that our children are the product of our upbringing. We taught them things, yet things have turned out differently than expected, perhaps? Did we even give our children the emotional side of life? Have we even been trying to get our kids to deal with money? Have we not been too concerned with protecting our children, or have we not given them the responsibility they had to take on themselves? Didn't we always say, “My children don't do something like that”, when something had happened that couldn't get through the braces? Have we not protected them too much?
A free education, we had to go along with our time. This means that the children called their parents by their first name, called the teachers by their first name and actually lost the awe of the elderly and superiors. They weren't dealing with the police, they were dealing with Uncle Officer! Children saw their parents running around the room naked, because it had to be normal for children to know what a man and a woman looked like, and they actually got everything that their heart desired, because there was no question of poverty (in most families).
Many children, who studied, did not have to look for a side job, parents gave them changing money and pocket money. They didn't really learn how to deal with money and not to estimate the value of their stuff. So these children later got into debt, because if something was broken, they had to buy new and work? That was for the dumb, because it wasn't necessary if you got your money like that, was it?
We can learn a lot from it, and what we've learned from our children is that we've released them too, maybe? That we let our children take too little responsibility? That our children did not have to learn how to deal with money and are therefore not guilty of the financial slings they have, but that we are guilty of it. All of us, the over-50s of our time, and that we now have to reap the wrappy benefits ourselves, because we are the victims of our own failure. We learn from our children, so these children will raise their children in a completely different way, but they too are not perfect, so they will learn from their mistakes again.
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