War of a different kind

Syl has been on edgey terms with her mom (my mom-in-law) the last few days.

They've been disagreeing mostly over Lil J's stuff, e.g. the temperature of his milk bath, whether to change over to formula milk and most irritable to Syl- that Syl's too laid back in getting back to work.

Like every family, daughter and mother have a baggage of issues that date back to Syl's childhood; and like every family, these issues are continuing till today. At the moment, my objective view is that Syl has the logical high ground in their disagreements as her opinions on Lil J's stuff has the backing of doctors and most parenting literature. However, I believe it is the method of delivery of her opinions that causes her mom to be entrenched in her views.

Which got me thinking- do parents disagree with us mainly because they don't like the way we deliver our opinions? I mean, to be fair, people of my generation- the Gen-Ys are a information savvy bunch. It is more likely that we know more information on a topic than our parents; not because we are smarter, but because we are more used to the access points to find this information (e.g. internet). So does this threaten people of our parent's generation, the Baby Boomers (BBs) and Gen Xs? As such, they disagree not so much the logic of our arguments but how we say it.

I do think if we (Gen Y) approach debates in a more humble manner despite knowing logic is on our side, Gen Xs and BBs would actually be more accommodating to our views.