I think the younger generation could learn a lot from us seniors, instead of putting them in nursing homes and just leaving them there.  I mean after all , all the modern technology was invented before..it was just improved on.  The younger generation could lean a lot from their seniors! 😉

@bestwriter. That’s true.Parents in 70s and 80s in our part of the world encouraged their children to go abroad for education and jobs. They were very proud of the fact that their children found work in Middle East, America and Europe but these children settled there, got married and left their parents behind

Now they may be well off but…[Read more]

Children have their own load to keep their house and hearth going. But seniors do not understand it leading to resentment from both sides.  It is not true that children do not love their parents but they are helpless in giving the kind of attention their parents expect them. Partly parents themselves are responsible in that they encourage their…[Read more]

@grace I feel you have kept yourself mentally active and physically busy with gardening, online writing and pets etc. , which is a great thing. You don’t seem to be emotionally dependent on others

Many older people have no activity beyond their children and once children are married, they become rather bitter and lonely.

What I meant by change was the duties and responsibilities that many younger mothers now have to take up.

For example, my grandmother was a simple housewife. She never drove a  car to pick and drop children to school, go to bank, take her in-laws to a hospital, attend her children’s school plays or parent-teacher meeting, stay up all night to…[Read more]

I am a senior and I have chosen to withdraw from situations where juniors would have to go out of their way. I can understand if one is will but not when there is a social event fro examplewhere a youngster’s presence would be important and so tagging along and not giving them space is what I would avoid.