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Fun times in "the old days."
- Grandparents are notorious for believing that younger generations listen to horrible music, are irresponsible, and are overly sexualized.
- Many of us have heard from older people about how things were better "back in the day."
- However, there are certain things your grandparents did or said that are absolutely not OK today. Here's five of them.
More often than not, when a grandparent complains about how things were different "back in my day," the issue isn't so much that things have changed as that people change.
Our grandparents endured the same complaints about their rotten modern music when they were gyrating to Elvis or The Beatles as those jeers they now issue when they hear today's top 40 tunes. And while every generation of youngsters seems promiscuous to the older folks, teen birth rates are at an all-time low, revealing that perception and reality are often disparate.
The ways in which people relate to one another and in how they go about their daily lives are often similar from generation to generation. However, there are certain things today's grandparents were more likely to have said and done back in their day without a second thought that would be seen as violations of social standards today.