Ask your parents: my mom was a well-groomed hippy and my dad was a hip nerd

So I have two questions for you. As a kid, my parents and most of my friend's parents were products of the civil rights movement, the feminist era, rock and roll, peace not war and experimenting with drugs and sex; their deepest identity relates to the values of what United States glorifies and labels as hippies of the 1960's. My parents always told me that their parents treated them differently than they treated me while growing up.

It seems to boil down to this:
1) My parents and grandparents had a much harder time understanding one another than my parents and I
2) While my parents would rather have a deep conversation than punish me when I was in touble, their parents would have thought strict punishment is what their children need to keep out of trouble
3) My parents often spoke about real issues and were comfortable letting me know when they didn't know the answer, rather than simply pretending everything is and will be okay
4) Almost nothing was black and white in the house I grew up, while my parents' parents had a firmer grasp on right and wrong for the family
4) My parents usually sociallized with the kids around, while their parents went out a lot on their own
5) Kids' ideas wer almost as important as adults' in the family when I was growing, while children were not allowed to question authority when my parents were kids

Last year I met this man who has a teenage daughter. The man had been a young 1980s punk rock kid who grew up into an adult who still held the same values as a punk rocker: anti-government, loud and fast music, Do-it-yourself attitude, hating hippies, etc.

How do we describe parents today? We need to think about what the world was like when they were teenagers. Most parents of young teenagers were teenagers themselves in the 1990's. What was the world like in 1990s? Globalization was beginning, the Cold War was ending, personal computers were begining to be popular, social issues (like suicide, poverty, AIDS) were hot topics, TV sitcoms like Seinfield, Friends were big, boy bands came into existence, grunge was on MTV and political correctness entered the spotlight. Ask your parents about what they were thinking of during the 1990s.

My two questions for you:
1) Do you think your parents relate better to you than they did with their own parents?
2) Do you know what kinds of people your parents were when they were your age or a little older?