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There were certainly times in which life-long lessons and experiences from grandparents were valuable to our younger generations. However, as time goes, the values of our society has changed so much that those old lessons from older generations can no longer be valued as before.
These days, we are living in a society that marked significant technology development ever in our history. Technology indeed became a significant part of our life, and consequently, being able to utilize this technology in a real job setting has become a crucial quality as a member of the society. However, older generations like grandparents often lacks the ability to be adept at vital technology tools like computer softwares and emails. This makes them to be unable to provide handy tips or advices on technical skills or an up-to date information when grandchildren goes to the real job setting in the future.
Furthermore, it became harder for grandparents to catch what has become a new value to the grandchildren. In this society what's deemed as "valuable" to children is different from what's been considered as important in grandparent's generation. To be specific, one of those values can be an academic success versus a quality time with a family. In our grandparent's generation, being a devoted member of a family - especially for a woman instead of building her own career was considered more important. Nowadays a lot of young adults deem their own future career and academic goal as equally important as family or friends, and this differences in values and mindsets makes advices from grandparents less useful. For instances, my friend’s grandma do not understand her passion toward academic success; whenever her grandma finds her struggling from the studies, she suggests her not to spend so much time on studying but to have more time with the family. My friend knew that her grandma tried to give her some advices, but she found them useless because her grandma could not understand she values her academic performances a lot.
To sum up, I think grandparent’s advices became less useful to grandchildren because what’s valued to the children nowadays are different from grandparent’s value as I mentioned above. |