I keep seeing articles reminding us how hard various things are for young people and keep asking myself, "Who ever said it wouldn't be hard? Being young is har

I keep seeing articles reminding us how hard various things are for young people and keep asking myself, "Who ever said it wouldn't be hard? Being young is hard. Life is hard." But obviously someone is saying this or it wouldn't be a thing, right? The author himself admits to implying it to his kid. Is it generational? I could see how for example, boomers and gen-X, who grew up in relatively good times (in the USA, at least) could be conveying higher expectations to their kids while the older generations (Silent and Greatest) could have been more cautious about assuming things would be good. My parents lived through the great depression and WWII. Their attitude was not "things will be great!" It was more like, "If you're diligent and frugal and focus on what's important, you can be happy, but shit could go bad at any time so keep your eyes open!" [Edit: they both went to college and grad school, btw, but their attitude was that you go there and work hard, and if you do well it'll be fun sometimes.] But I don't think these attitudes transfer through generations. I'm wondering if I've given my teen unrealistic expectations about being happy, just because I've been fairly happy. I've tried to take the attitude that she shouldn't sweat it when things don't go great because that happens to everyone and we can get through it. But maybe she interpreted that as, "It's not really normal for things to be hard, so if they're hard for me, it must be my fault."