Why does the older generation resent the younger one?

I had the advantage of having to parent myself, because I knew the things my parents did were very wrong. My life always felt wrong until I had my son.

I feel like his biggest supporter in this society. I scoff away a majority of the expectations, treat him with patience, kindness and even/especially respect. He's not spoiled, or mean, or loud, or gross, or out of control. I teach him, I spend all my time with him. And I don't do it to be the opposite of my parents either. I do it because I want to send a good person out into the world and I want him to be happy and resilient.

It's sad to see him get treated like an object by others. An annoyance. A, thing. I don't know what is happening with people and rearing children these days but I see it and I wonder how it will effect the future. Change is inevitable. Evolution. I gotta help my boy be strong. Not squash him into a cage and get mad when he bites back.

This has been true since the the oldest of times, every generation resents the next once they've grown old enough to realise how to be a socially intergrated person but then forget who they were before that, thus they lose perspective and see the next as these sort of untamed and aggressive/ignorant people forgetting where they started in the first place.

Can't argue with that

If you're stupid, selfish, narrow-minded or nasty, unfortunately parenthood doesn't cure that.

I think it’s just bitter people that miss the “good old days” and are living in the past. Hence, you have the whole “this new generation is so sensitive and lazy” when it’s the older generations that raped the economy leaving younger people with scraps and debt.

As far as parenting, a lot of people don’t bother to use resources on how to parent their kids better and just go off of what their parents did to them.

Juvenoia. It’s a term worth looking up. It’s been going on for at least 200 years since newspaper pieces and magazine became widely available, because there are articles going back even then when the older generation harshly criticized the younger

Age envy. I remember in my mid 20s when the only people who still called me "young man" were old men. It stems from insecurity that a person isn't the center of the universe

jovialplutonium not resent as such lack of tolerance and understanding of them and there attitude and I will put my hand up and say I am a little that way at times

Where is your evidence to back up your statement?

Obviously I'm not referring to all!!!

Do you have kids?