Thank you for sharing such sensitive content, @fun2learn. Being an educator is a praiseworthy task (a teacher, I firmly believe) and a commitment that is redoubled when it comes to children.
Indeed, times have changed and so have generacons, as they always have been and as they must be (even if not always necessarily for the better). However, there are immutable things, such as generational gaps that will always exist. A good teacher understands them and takes advantage of them, because a good teacher learns what he teaches and learns from the person he teaches.

This thing you're really saying and teachers and parents shouldn't forget it:

Our children may just be a mirror of the bad choices or decisions that we had made.

We can never turn back time but we can still save our future time if we choose not to leave things as they are.

Our children and students are no longer the gullible ones.

Adults may be the gullible ones who think that they can hide the truth from their children.

I think you are a good teacher.
A hug!