Проблема отцов и детей

The generation gap has been a relevant problem of all times.
 Imagine the following situation:

A boy lives somewhere in a big city. His name’s Peter. He is fourteen. Pete likes hard rock music, he is a good pupil, and he has a good friend – Max. He likes to play football, and to walk with his classmates. Do you think he is a happy child? No, you are mistaken. His parents control his every step. They think, that hard rock is “the devil’s music”, that’s why their child doesn’t tell them about his musical preference. They make Pete go to a music school. They want his son to become a musician. Pete misses music lessons, and quarrels with his parents. For this reason they don’t allow Pete to communicate with Max. They think that he has a bad influence on Pete’s musical preference. Pete lies to his parents. He doesn’t trust them. And his parents wonder: “Why does our child avoid communicating with us?”
The first reason of it is the fact that parents want to realize their ambitions using their children, but children have their own ideas and wishes.
Secondly, parents’ tastes have become old-fashioned and young people don’t want to follow them, because parents and children belong to different generations. Children want to be modern, up to date. Sometimes their parents don’t understand it. Parents and children have their own opinions, values, lifestyles.
Thirdly, parents think that children are too young to understand  life, because they don’t have enough experience. But children want to gain their own experience making mistakes. In this case parents either establish total control over their child or vice versa they don’t care about him much.

What am I getting at? Parents, please, try to understand your child, support him. To be a teenager is uneasy. Sons and daughters, try to understand your parents. They love you, care of you and wish you only the best.