When you are a GenZ but your parents are GenX : Arguments

 Hi! Today’s topic is quite “controversial” if you want to call it like that. Let me tell this to the parents who might be reading this that we love you from the bottom of our hearts but you guys are very tough to argue with. You’ll get to know the reasons when you read the blog. 

Now, the funny thing about arguments with parents is that they might have a valid point with which they started off but somewhere in between they get off the chosen track and at times they just beat around the same bush. And the best part about this is that whenever we try to get them back on point or try and counter their statements with VALID QUESTIONS, if I may add, we get shut up with the infamous dialogue of, “We are your parents. You think you can argue with us?! We brought you into this world and have seen more of the world than you ever will! So shut up and don’t you dare talk back to us! Have you ever seen us talk to OUR parents like that? Huh?!” 

Well in any case I agree with the not misbehaving with them but still I just want to bring something to light about the last line… You might not say things like that to your parents’ faces but you for sure say them behind their back to us or your spouse. Which is something we, at least I, don’t do (in our case our friends, cousins or siblings; and for some people; their boy/girl friends). You really want us to go and bitch about you guys to some other people? Or do you want us to stuff the anger and frustration down our throats till our tolerance meter gets broken and we take it out on someone else (and then you get called to the school and oh would you look, we are having another argument!).

Well, I don’t want either of the things to happen (personal opinion no offence to anyone). I would rather maintain the openness we have between us and tell you everything that I’m feeling about you at that moment or your point at that time. I can’t suffer silently with the frustration because I don’t like it especially with the very people I consider to be mine. 

Anyway, moving on…. 

The entertaining part of the arguments is that parents can’t really stay on the topic they started out with. They might start out with how we should stop breaking the stuff in the house and end up on how you misbehaved with a stupid classmate in our kindergarten days (or the most annoying cousin you have I mean it can be anything, you get the point XD). So, now they know that they have exhausted the one or two points they had for scolding us and we have a better counter argument and they call reinforcements, aka, our grandparents or the other parent. And the argument turns into a lecture which lasts till infinity and beyond ;) 

Half way through this ‘lecture’ one tends to just shut up and ‘listen’ to them because you know it’s like two to one and there is no way you can even get a word in. But oh no no no no. HOW CAN YOU BE SILENT?! DIDN’T YOU KNOW THAT IT IS ALSO DISRESPECTFUL!! XD 

I mean, please please tell me what should I be doing? If I argue it’s called talking back and if I say nothing it is also misbehaving and being ‘under the influence of social media because the phone is the root cause of every god damn problem there is’. So I would love for you to enlighten me about how should I behave during arguments. I mean parents, we love you but please tell us what you want us to do!! You don’t want us to sit and nod you don’t want us to argue back so what should we do?! 🤣