Jewels or Junk?

Recently I read an article in the Chicato Tribune called "Jewels or Junk" and it talked about how momentos and jewels that are special items to parents appear to be just trash or junk to their kids.  This is partly due to the parents being the "baby boomers" of their time.  Cindi Copeland, a mother of two sons, keeps her grandparents' and great-grandparents' precious collection of Hummel figurines that had been passed down to her by her parents.  Her sons "have expressed little or no interest in her collection" (Glanton, Dahleen).  "'I've tried to tell my boys so they will care.  But when I was their age, I didn't care either'"(qtd. in Glanton, Dahleen).  She fears that they, or their sons and daughters, will simply forget about or toss aside these momentos.

I can relate to this article --  not from Cindi's viewpoint, but the sons' viewpoints -- since I myself consider all of my mom's Precious Little Angel ornaments and figurines to be just items that take up too much room.  Honeslty, if they were all passed on to me one day, they would probably all end up grouped in one big box and stored away in a dark corner or cellar of my house.  It's sad, I know, and as a respectful young adult growing up and being weaned of my parents, I should honor them and tell you guys that we should all repect them and whatnot by respecting their childhood to be respectful and respectively repect their wishes with respect.  I get the idea of heirlooms being special and representative of your parents and their parents and their parents' parents.  But they have almost little to no value in my eyes, which is what these frightened "baby boomers" are so freaked out about.  However, from the parents' viewpoints, I can see how they may be surprised at how fast young kids are moving these days and are forgetting about their origins and ancestry.  It's just something that goes along with the generations that keep comin and goin -- I don't believe that it's impossible for kids to not give any interest in their parents' prized possessions and it's really not all that surprising, considering how fast the world is changing to rely strongly on electronics.