Haim Ginott Quotes

Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

Intergenerational support is crucial. I feel like generations give up on each other. If you're Gen Z, you're like, "Gen X is never gonna get it." If you're Gen X, you're like, "Those Millennials are such idiots."

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.

I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.

There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.

If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

Parents do the best they can. But my parents are better grandparents than they were parents.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.