▶ Your Answer :
There might be some people who believe that parents today
understand their children as well as parents did fifty years ago. However, I
personally disagree with the above idea for two subsequent reasons: the
development of technology and busier life.
First of all, the technology has been developed rapidly so it
makes a big generation gap. To be specific, the generation gap between parents
and their children causes difficulties to understand each other. Let me bring
my personal experience. I asked my parents to buy new smartphone last month but
they told me “You have a phone that I bought two years ago! I will buy a new
phone if the phone were out of order”. At that time, I cannot understand because
the used phone is not smartphone so I am not able to enter the internet. My
parents just think the phone’s usage is only calling to someone for now.
On top of that, parents and their children have busy lives
these days. Over the past fifty years, working parents are increasing and their
children have more extra-curricular activities. For that reason, there is less time
to communicate with family and harder to understand thoughts that they have.
According to a recent research done by Korean Communication Institute, 80% of
respondents made up of 100 parents and their children said that they spent time
with family less than 1 hour in a day. The result is different to the research
done in 1970 which is showed that only 20% of respondents mentioned less than 1
hour in a day.
In this regard, there are not only the technology’s
developments but also busy life.
For these reason, I strongly believe that parents today do
not understand their children as well as parents did fifty years ago. |