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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is generational. Gen x and millennial parents try to be their kids friends so they take the normal teenage crap as “hate”. This generation of parents tied their whole identity on being a good involved parent so it feels like a “betrayal” but I think teenagers resent that their parents have so much focus on them and this is a part of the push back. We didn’t have to do this bc our boomer (or silent gen) parents had their own lives and little interest in us lol. Which also isn’t ideal but what we are seeing is an over correction.

That said my kids don’t and have never hated me. [/quote]

I don't think it's generational, it's about emotional maturity. My parents were boomers and struggled with this, and I know from talking to them later that THEIR parents (greatest generation) struggled with it too. This is really nothing new. It was probably new in the 20th century simply because the concept of an extended adolescence and a "teenager" who was not an adult and still totally dependent on parents, basically didn't exist until then -- before that it was normal for people to have adult responsibility, get married and have kids, by 17 or 18 years old.

But this is not a problem invented by Gen X or millenial parents. Also that line about parents trying to be their kids friends? That got lobbed at boomer parents in the 70s and 80s too! Everything old is new again, I guess. [/quote]

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