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When generational differences complicate parent-child mentorship

My daughter is graduating college and asked me to help her navigate her early career, but every time I try to share what I've learned she either gets defensive or shuts down, and I'm realizing that maybe the way I learned to succeed twenty years ago isn't what she needs to hear right now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transmission of wisdom across generations becomes fraught when the mentor's experience feels irrelevant or imposing to someone facing a fundamentally different landscape.

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