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When you become the nostalgic parent

My teenage daughter rolls her eyes when I play music from my youth and I realize I'm becoming my parents and I don't know if that's sad or natural.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Generational cycles reveal themselves as both inevitable and personally disorienting.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Nostalgia — its function and its limits?”

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