"At our house, we call this kind of conversation “when giants waked the earth.”
I am actually interested in hearing about how my parents lived when they were younger. I find it fascinating, and don’t mock their experiences. We can rarely get my mom to talk about her childhood (very traumatic), but when she does, it’s like a pearl of knowledge. It is fascinating to see the progression on my dad’s side. His grandparents almost starved to death before being rescued by the Communists, his father struggled over here as a poor immigrant farmer, the challenges my father had growing up as a poor child, and how he improved himself by struggling through college. I grew up very lower middle class, and my kids grew up upper middle class. Every generation doing better for themselves. I really hope my kids keep the trend going.