What's Appropriate Coming from Your Parents

               Rarely do kids feel they can confide in their parents. They rather tell lies and go about their days doing their own thing. Eventually this leads to suspicious parents who are deemed ridiculously strict or it could lead to parents who just aren’t part of their child’s life (usually those parents are where the problem originated).

               A select population of youth, however; find it better to vent every frustration to their elders and seek guidance with the smallest of tasks such as meal choices and hygiene. These pupils are the ones who will in due course remain in their parents’ basement living off their income taxes.

               The people who are in between. They live a difficult life. Their parents learn only what they need to, they continue to seek more from these tidbits of information and often disgust their children or push them further away. The only issue with this behavior is that the youth can do nothing to resist talking to their parents and thus the adults feel it is alright to continue these rather symptomatic topics which should not be revealed out-front from child to parent.

               In my own case, I love to tell my parents what is happening in my life because they often are not even listening and it allows me to get stuff off my chest before I tell the wrong people or before I allow horrible ideas to manifest inside my noggin. When they do catch what I have said, it rapidly gets turned on me however. For instance, letting them know of struggles a friend may be facing causes my parents more distress than if I was facing these issues myself. Or per chance they learn that the people I hang with live a certain lifestyle, they expect that I will miraculously morph into these people and make the same choices as them.

               What does this have to do with age appropriate content coming from the mouths of our elders? They are entitled to their opinions and as adults they can say whatever they want to but when talking to their kids or family there are certain things that should not be shared. For instance, there is no need for discussion of sex lives or “sexy” appearances, “sexy” actions…. Anything “sexy” should really just be dropped altogether, especially when between parent and child of opposite genders. It’s just a tad creepy… I am certain that most anti Trump Americans would agree.