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The song “comonossospais” (“Like our Parents”), written by Belchoir, and sung by Elis Regina, holds great significance, when it comes to thinking about generations. The lyrics reveal the immense gap between the singer and her parents. Even more interestingly, the song also expresses the huge gap between young people today and their parents.

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A letter for Gabriela

Bibi, I know that you just turned two, but I want to write to you. I want to tell you that I know that relationships will be very different when you grow up. Today, people keep in touch with their family online, and assure me that it doesn’t mean they love any less. It’s just [...]

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How much power do kids have today? Are you one of those people, who think kids are all pure, innocent and truthful? Or maybe you just believe that kids are all angels and gifts from God? OK, maybe it could happen until a certain age, or maybe they do were like that for a while. [...]

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Daddy Knows Best?

I want to recommend this video to you.   As a very young child, I used to watch this television series. This “TV family” illustrates what a typical real life family used to look like. At that time, daddy knew everything.  Daddy knew best.  When we wanted something, we always turned to Daddy. He knew about [...]

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Can any baby boomer honestly claim that they aren’t afraid of getting old? “Old” just isn’t cool. I remember my grandmother, an old woman with a head of white hair, knitting in her rocking chair. She would cook for us, make us snacks, and was always around. Needless to say, she didn’t work. Women only [...]

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The world used to be based on the notion that “success” trickled down from the concentration of the few elite individuals sitting at the top. For centuries, we lived in a “top-down” society in which a few voices ordered, and everybody followed. That was it. This mindset (which is still very common today) was once [...]

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Go, live, become

These days in Brazil, our kids often delay striking out to live on their own. I notice how this fills parents with conflicting emotions. On one hand, we want our kids to be mature enough to live alone, or with friends or a partner. On the other hand, as “helicopter parents,” we want them close [...]

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I wanted you to watch this commercial. It’s a commercial for a famous sandal brand. As a kid, this was a typical commercial. I remember watching this on our TV, as a family, in our living room. Today, I ask myself, what on earth were we thinking? What possessed us to watch this? I think [...]

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I really like this video. Not just because it’s funny, but because it’s true.  It reveals a bit about who the baby boomers are, and what their kids, Generation Y are like. First off, as a mother of two young adults, belonging to Generation Y, I must say that it’s all true.  Mothers want more [...]

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