Well-deserved rest (of course, old man can continue labor activity if he wants it and his health allows);

Age-related features (diseases, a tendency to forgetfulness, certain character traits, changes in appearance);

Special needs (elderly people need special care, attention, understanding and respect).

As for the problems of youth, young people talked about the following. At present, due to significant reductions in the material base, not every young person has the opportunity to spend cultural leisure time, get an education, and fulfillment in life. Therefore, many receive "education" on the street. Not being able to get a job, since now not only pensioners, but also young professionals without work experience are faced with the problem of employment, young people are forced to expand the field of self-realization and may be involved in dubious enterprises, various criminal groups. Many are now forced to trade in the bazaar, because they see no other prospects.

To the question: what older generation can learn from the younger? , the elderly replied that now is coming scientific and technical progress, there are many innovations, for example, a computer, so young people should teach the elderly to master various kinds of innovations.

Young people, in turn, would like to learn household chores from the older generation, such as needlework, cooking and others. Also, they would like to learn to be more sensitive, as people today have become quite "calous", mutual respect. Young people were also of the opinion that the elderly should teach them how to build relationships in the family, that is, the culture of the family, because today the number of divorces, single-parent families has greatly increased, there are fewer and fewer multi-generational families, grandparents practically do not take part in raising their grandchildren, and parents, due to their busyness in earning money, devote little time to their children. Therefore, street children are becoming more and more common.

In general, at this event, the younger generation and the older were able to reach mutual understanding and admitted that it was interesting for them to communicate with each other, to hear the opinion of the opposite generation about themselves, and now they have something to think about, and both generations wished that such events were held more.

As a result of this program, young people learned a lot about the life of older people and their age characteristics, they learned about the help they need and who should provide it, they thought about aging, about the future. The students also tried to figure out why we perceive older people through the prism of negative stereotypes. This program helped to understand that old age is not always associated with illness, poverty and loneliness, that it is important not how you look, but how you feel. It is significant that students consider it necessary to strengthen family ties, close communication with the older generation, since they can learn a lot, and also agree that older people definitely need help from their children and grandchildren.

An important conclusion of our study is that the stereotypical perception of older people and old age is subject to correction. This is facilitated by any way of presenting accurate information about the diverse world of older people, about their characteristics, about the age stages of human life, as well as personal contact with representatives of the older generation.

Let's summarize this paragraph.

Intergenerational practices that are developing in modern society offer a mechanism by which people of different generations purposefully cooperate in order to support and protect each other. Intergenerational practices can meet the needs for contacts between generations, breaking down the barriers that modern society established between age groups. For the successful development of our society, it is necessary to combine the experience, knowledge and wisdom of the elderly with the cheerfulness, activity and optimism of the young, interaction and mutual assistance of generations is necessary.

Resource usage social policy, the media and the social environment is necessary to form a positive attitude towards older people. The elimination of discrimination based on age, the reduction of social distances between generations should become priority areas of social policy and the social structure of the Russian state.

Conclusion.

The problem of generations is one of the eternal ones, and this problem is not biological (at this level it also exists in animals) and not even demographic, but socio-cultural or cultural-historical. In this sense, the term generation itself is indefinite. It conveys, first of all, the involvement of people in certain social events (processes) that significantly affect the life of society, and the associated commonality of goals, socio-psychological attitudes, and value orientations that characterize the specifics of their mentality. It's about about changes in the ways and types of continuity, the cultural and historical meaning of which is highlighted by the attitude towards tradition.

In conditions of sharp social changes, of course, the conflict of generations is more clearly revealed, since age characteristics affect the ability to adapt to changes, so that socio-cultural characteristics are, as it were, intertwined with demographic ones. But this does not mean their identification.

Such an identification is fraught with nihilism, that is, the substitution of changes in the types and methods of continuity, the destruction of tradition, and hence the destruction of culture (an example of this is the emergence of a "counterculture" on the basis of the youth movements of the 60-70s), because culture can only develop based on traditions.

Generation is a temporary category. The change of generations is the flow that goes in history, ensuring the transfer of social information, culture, and accumulated experience from one generation to another. But the specific nature of the relationship depends on historical conditions. Therefore, a historical approach to the problem is extremely important. Each society, each era develops a certain type of intergenerational relationship and certain mechanisms for the transmission of culture over time.

In traditional societies, the place of each person was determined from the moment of birth, the problem of personality does not stand there as an independent one, the ways of interconnection of generations, the transfer of experience are defined and unchangeable. The picture is different in today's dynamic society, which constantly confronts each new generation with problems and tasks of self-affirmation, the choice of ways for its development. In such a society, the experience of previous generations cannot fully meet the challenges of the present and future. The mechanisms of transmission of experience themselves do not remain unchanged; accordingly, the "image" of each generation is formed.

Since the generation is a temporary category, the problem is inevitable, connected with the attitude of each generation to the past, present and future. For Russia, this is a particularly acute problem. The rejection of the ideology of the past led to the disintegration of the "connection of times", the feeling of belonging to the history of one's country, one's homeland.

Modern youth is addicted to technology and absorbed by a political pseudo-activist, moreover, they are sure that there are no losers in this life. In fact, big and small businesses are puzzled to swindle money from them, and they are the losers, although mom and dad have been telling them otherwise all their lives. We are smart enough to use a proxy and see a web page banned in our country, but we still believe that liking our userpic has a hidden meaning. In general, we have a lot to learn from those who are older than us.

1. Cheap beer

Live, or even brewed with your own hands, beer will not impress anyone if you can only drink half a liter. A few sips of beer is not what you need for a party. Yes, cheap beer does not taste good, but there are situations when the amount better quality. Drinking games were invented so that strangers would come closer and begin to understand each other. Learn to drink bullshit so everyone around you can get drunk and make friends. In addition, because of your aesthetic attitude to beer, they inflate incredible prices for it, so life will force you to switch to cheaper options sooner or later. Who said that the next generation should never be like the previous one?

2. "VKontakte" should not be included at parties

We have tablets, players and computers that store gigabytes of music, and each song can be found in 15 different formats. Take the time to make a playlist suitable for your evening or put in charge of the music of a friend who always ruins your acquaintances with girls: embarrasses you or steals girlfriends from under your nose. Sitting and choosing music on VKontakte or waiting for another funny video to load is not only boring, but also idiotic - and you insist that you are not idiots. Let everyone dance from the heart.

Online friends are not your friends until you meet in real life

We live in the era of social networks, it costs nothing to make friends through Facebook and VKontakte. However, it is worth remembering: if you talk to a person every day on Skype, Viber, or exchange messages on VKontakte, this does not make him your true friend. Friends also communicate in all of the above ways, but they also meet in real life. They could theoretically be anyone until you see them in person.

3. Know Before You React

4. You are not special

Why should you be? We understand that as you read, your jaw dropped lower and lower, but such is life. Yeah guys, none of us are special. It doesn't matter who told you otherwise, they had their reasons. There are billions of people on Earth, there are guys much stronger, smarter and funnier than you, and we are all insignificant. When Yuri Gagarin looked at our planet from space, he once again reminded us all that we are just rummaging around on the surface of a blue ball lost in the Universe, and by chance we write words and perform actions. We are small and stupid, and this is the truth of life. And in truth there is nothing offensive. Take it for granted.

Older people are commonly portrayed in the media as being technologically backward. Surely you yourself have seen the photo with the part of the lens covered by the finger, which was taken by the grandmother. Or heard stories about "accidentally" infecting a computer with viruses. But Australian scientists have proven that all these are just stereotypes. And young people have a lot to learn from the older generation in terms of using gadgets.

Social networks

Yes, older people use them too. AT in social networks 67% of Australians over 65 are registered! A quarter of them check their account every day. And although these figures are much lower compared to the rest of the population (out of 88% of users, 62% go to the social network every day), the fact remains that older people are also not as far from progress as it might seem at first glance. Moreover, in some aspects we need to start to take their example.

Older Australians very rarely access social media during their commute, lunch break or before bed. They never use their smartphones in the bath or toilet (which is what 40% of people aged 18 to 29 do).

The elderly are not characterized by multitasking. Only 25% of them can use social networks while watching TV. Everyone else shares these cases.

Developing Healthy Habits

Studies have shown that the blue light on our smartphone screens can suppress the production of brain chemicals responsible for sleepiness. Opt Out mobile phones in the evening will improve sleep.

Older Australians do not upload a lot of content to social networks, do not chase likes, follow a small number of celebrities, do not subscribe to great amount groups. Thanks to this, they do not have the desire to constantly access social networks, they are not at all worried when they fail to do this (for example, if the Internet suddenly disappears). In younger people, it is more like an addiction, and the fear of missing out on something important is at a very high level.

Differences in the use of new technologies

Older people do not strive to keep up with the development of technology. They know how to find alternatives that will be clear to them. Such people use modern technological innovations to achieve a narrower range of goals. For example, only 36% of older Australians access social media from their smartphone. And this is compared to the average, which is 74%. In addition, 65-year-olds very rarely use their phones for listening to music, watching videos or online entertainment, preferring more traditional devices.

In pursuit of friends

Who is on your social media friends list? Acquaintances, relatives, former employees, classmates, classmates ... You have not communicated with some of them for a long time, but you still cannot remove them from friends. The older generation is completely different. They add only those people with whom they really communicate. According to statistics, the average number of Facebook friends young Australians have is 239. People over 65 have 68.

Two way training

As we can see, in terms of modern technologies not only the younger generation can teach something new to older people. We too can start to learn from them. For example, give preference to real rather than virtual life, spend less time on social networks and finally stop going to the toilet with gadgets.

And how often do you go to scroll through the feed on Instagram or read the news on various sites? Do you consider yourself addicted to your smartphone or use it only for calls?

Let's be clear. Did you really know exactly what you wanted at the age of 15-20? And if so, tell me honestly, right now, at your age, is this what you are doing? And you have been moving towards this all your life, step by step, and are you sure that you did everything right? Congratulations, from the point of view of world statistics, you are among the 2% of people who did not change their field of activity, did not work in non-core work and did not receive an education that has nothing to do with the primary or is not related. The data is inexorable: the vast majority of people are determined with their "calling" by the age of 25-30.

What is worth learning: the realization that the world is changing so fast that at the age of 15-20 to make some Important Fundamental Decisions and blindly follow a once chosen plan is at least naive. When I was 15, the Internet seemed like something stupid to sit in a chat room. Now I am in charge of a large Internet project. Did I know about it at 15, could I choose this as a matter of life? No, no and NO.

They don't plan years ahead

Our grandparents knew how to save. Many have accumulated very tangible sums. And they lost everything in the early 90s. Our moms and dads knew how to save. Many have accumulated very tangible sums. And they lost everything in the 98th. We were able to save. Many even accumulated quite tangible sums. We lost some in 2008 and the rest in 2014. Hello, do you really think it makes sense to plan your life? Our children understand that the world is unpredictable, and if you have the opportunity to do something now, you must do it. No one knows what will happen in a year, what multi-year planning?

What is worth learning: bring joy to yourself here and now. I love to travel, but I always thought that at first .... And then ... and only then ... And my daughter taught me to spend money on studying Angkor Wat in Cambodia, fly to Athens for my birthday and generally count, that as long as there are countries in the world whose roads have not trampled my feet, this should not be postponed to a future that may not come.

They don't dream of cool cars and big salaries.

I bought my first car at the age of 19 and thought I was cool to the point of impossibility. A personal car as a symbol of coolness still lives in my head. I was horrified when I found out that no one - spelled - N AND K T O - from my daughter's friends, friends of their friends, acquaintances and buddies (I will make a reservation: I'm talking about Moscow) does not even think about buying a car as some kind of achievement.

Why do they need a car? Public transport lucky quickly and inexpensively, in another situation, you can take an affordable taxi. It's easier, cheaper, and more practical than messing around with technical inspections, gas, taxes, maintenance, and repairs.

What is worth learning: Delegate, you don't have to carry everything. Do not buy too much, use the resource wisely. Ponty in the past, it is important - convenience.

They only want pleasure

I remember very well how I thought that every penny saved should be put into a savings ... okay, in a savings paper envelope. I denied myself, I’m silent about a full-fledged trip to a cafe, because “this is for the wealthy” was sitting in my head.

I still have a hard time throwing away torn tights (but I'm working on myself), because "well, they're still good, why throw them away right away." I kept a “for guests” service in the closet and drank from chipped cups. These kids walk out of the store wearing a new outfit they just bought because it's cool! Yes, perhaps in a year there will be hunger and a nightmare. And then who will appreciate the new cool sweatshirt?

They don't have a goal

Well, well, now some choice has been made, now a decision has been made, but globally? What do you kids want - globally? They crumple, mumble and do not understand what we want from them, and we are like this: there must be a PURPOSE in life! Cretins.

None of us has a clue what the meaning of life is, and for what purpose of the universe we all were born. All that is in our power is to live this life in such a way that there is something to remember, or to take a reverse photo before death, in which there will be a treadmill flooded with sweat and blood.

What is worth learning: there is no point in overcoming difficulties, they will never end. You overcome one - there will be others. No matter how much you brush your teeth in the morning, by the evening they still require cleaning. Therefore, do what is necessary, but remember every day: if you did not rejoice today, you deprived yourself of joy for one whole day of life.

They don't set benchmarks

Many of us grew up in the paradigm “by 25 get married (get married), by 30 give birth to the first, by 35 the second, at 40 open your own business.” Change the dates, change the goals - the essence of the matter remains the same. We had a clear plan for achievement, limited by specific time frames.

These children live according to the principle of "how it goes." I was shocked when I asked my then young daughter who, in her understanding, is a young mother. She replied: "The one who recently gave birth." Age did not fit into the understanding at all! They don't consider 40 year olds to be old, they don't consider 60 year olds to be infirm. They are very specific comrades: they evaluate only this-given-only person, his capabilities and potential.

What is worth learning: we are very different, we have different paths and different priorities. No one should be put into a Procrustean bed (sorry) of standards, indicators and age limits. People are individual. They are not required to comply with any statistics, and even more so - to be condemned for it.

They are ready to go to any country where it is good

No patriotism! If everyone leaves, who will raise Russia from its knees? Yes, they are ready to raise, no, really. Create conditions. They do not mind! They simply (see above) do not want to sacrifice anything, endure and wait. You are not ready now to provide suitable conditions? Well, sorry, life is one, and not as long as we would like. If you don't buy, others will.

They don’t care, honestly, which country to raise, because they don’t care about all the countries in the world. They raise their standard of living, and nothing more.

What is worth learning: the person is alone. And if you do not take care of yourself first and foremost, very soon you will find yourself dependent either on other people, or on circumstances, or - surprise - on the system that has enslaved you. The world is very big and very diverse. And it's stupid, stupid to limit yourself to the limits that you yourself have come up with.

They do not understand people, their criteria are blurred

One day my daughter excitedly told me about some events in their teenage get-together. Now it does not matter at all what the matter was, it was important something else. In her speech, the names of the participants in the situation slipped every now and then. “And then Frol says ...”, “And Lena at that moment ...”, “And then Salim comes ...”, “Well, Yulia and I ...”, “And when Nathan called ... »

They have no respect for family

They don't clean their rooms, they don't want to take part in the washing up, they don't care about summer cottages and collecting Colorado beetles. They do not share their secrets and do not understand what a “clan” is.

What is worth learning: they initially do not want to depend on anyone. They are ready to take responsibility for their lives and do not want extra "anchors". You may not like the word "superfluous", but it's the harsh truth: we are all born and die alone. And in this life it is worth relying only on yourself, this gives a huge head start in reaching any heights and stability of the psyche. Believe me. Better try it.

These kids think they are the only way be self-confident: believe only in yourself. At the same time, they love us. To love and to depend are different stories.

They are willing to spend years looking for themselves

We were scared. But they don't. In their 15-20s, they honestly say: yes, we have no idea who we are and why. Wait and see. That is, they stole our uncertainty formula and turned it into their slogan. They really want to live and see. They don't need guarantees. They are ready to take risks and act according to the situation.

What is worth learning: faith in yourself. Nobody told them that it would be good, but they are still not ready to sacrifice in the name of potential success. They bet on themselves and win, because at this time we sit in the kitchens, calculate the risks and do not decide on anything.

We have grown up amazing kids. This is exactly what we can be congratulated on.

We often seek to learn from those above while forgetting about those below. And in vain. The generations that follow us carry a new paradigm of management and interaction with people. They always have something to learn.

Emancipation and inner freedom. Young leaders have virtually no fear of showing their weaknesses. One of the notable values ​​of new generations is the desire to be yourself and be open to the exchange of emotions. Many of their predecessors had a break from reality, as they were accustomed to being in a narrow organizational framework, when the format of “of course, the boss!” easily replaced the dialogue and freed from the need to oppose.

The leaders of the new generation are ready to demonstrate to their colleagues that we are all just living people - with weaknesses, fears, desires and hobbies. This same quality helps them to remain less politicized and hierarchical. They confidently communicate with people regardless of their social status, education, experience and age, openly share the details of their lives in social networks, which creates a much more favorable environment for high-quality interpersonal dialogue.

Straightforward without looking back. The new leaders have practically no destructive and inhibitory political correctness. Much more often than their older counterparts, they express their thoughts and disagreements openly and honestly. In the long run, this behavior is more creative, it captivates. So if you want to bribe the boss in the same way, ask one of your subordinates to give you a small master class in exchange for an immediate promotion.

Closeness to your teams. It manifests itself in a sincere interest in the lives of colleagues, respect for their personal space, as well as an indifferent attitude to their professional development. Comparing with the recent past, I observe a curious phenomenon - with the increasing importance of work-life balance, the formal line in communication in the workplace between today's young people is rapidly thinning. This warmer contact and the collaborative spirit that results from it brings a better outcome for the organization in the long run. Miracles of synergy.

Attention to detail beyond the scope of the job description. Successful young leaders are those who care about everything, they are versed in many aspects of the organization and technology, they often act as agents of change. Their attention to detail allows them not only to quickly find, analyze and eliminate weaknesses, but also to calculate the actions of competitors several steps ahead. Unless, of course, you are ready to listen to their opinion and follow their advice.

Passion for your work. For leaders of the new generation, work is not an obligation, but a serious self-realization and even a hobby. These are ideological people who look at many life processes integrally. They earn to enjoy their busy lives. They work a lot, but they manage to spend and are not afraid. For travel, for sports, for hobbies, for loved ones, for charity.

Willingness to interact with each other. The leaders of the new generation have a higher readiness to interact, I would even say a need. They form groups and communities more easily, exchange opinions, practices and know-how. Working in project teams within the same company, they can, without any fear for the result, be not just outside the office, but also on different continents. They don't even complain about the time difference.

One thing remains unchanged from generation to generation - the importance of uniting the team with a common idea, a common goal. So if you manage to attract such leaders with you and share some commonality with them, they will even forgive you for not having an account on social networks.

Alexey Steingardt