This is a letter to my parents, and to every eighteen-year olds parents in the We are the youth of America, and we need to be heard. As i sit down at mycomputer and begin to write i would like to make one thing very clear to all who read this:I write from the standpoint of , with support from a few experts, but no one else. There are many things involved in upholding a healthy, and loving relationship withyour child when you are the parent of an eighteen year-old. To some, your children aretreated as adults, but to you they are still children. As that child goes away to college, heor she becomes independent from you for the first time ever. This independence brings ona lot of changes in a parent-child relationship, and thus makes communication verydifficult You are different from them, both in age and in experience and you are biasedtwords some of the new things they begin to see and experience in the world. This biasbrings in confusion, usually at which both parent and child, break the communication line.However, in some cases, such as mine, that communication line is open. this poses as athreat to you as parents because of the maturity and diplomacy we can now bring intoconversations, and even arguments. The issue here is three-fold: As your children wewould still like to be loved, as your friends we would like to be informed, and included inimportant decision making processes, and as individuals we would like to be trusted andleft alone at times. I believe that the reason most parents find it very hard to treat thierchildren as they age with more individuality is three-fold as well. First, parents are verydifferent from children in the generation time continuum, this diversity in age makes itharder to empathize with todays issues and bias can more easily come out of this thanunderstanding. Second, parents are seeing maturity outright these days. This maturitycomes through most in different types of language children begin to use wi...
