#FJB #FTWDP
Posted on 03/15/2025 12:11:33 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Coming home to an empty house, managing homework without reminders, and making your own snacks wasn’t just part of the routine—it was the training ground for life. Boomer latchkey kids didn’t have helicopter parents hovering over every decision, which meant they developed character traits that today’s hyper-scheduled kids might never experience. Independence wasn’t a choice; it was the default setting.
While some might call it “neglect,” those solo afternoons shaped resilient, resourceful adults with a unique blend of grit, adaptability, and unshakable confidence.
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“I think it is bad analysis.”
I think you’re right.
I think most of the Silent Generation hippies of the 60s that most people remember were in their 20s.
Here are a few and most, if not all, were in their 20s.
Bob Seger, Jane Fonda, John Denver, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul & Mary, Grace Slick, Neil Young, Beatles, Van Morrison, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townsend, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Jimmy Page, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Williams Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Chicago Seven, Rod Stewart, Abbie Hoffman, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, The Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, the Jefferson Airplane, and the Mamas and the Papas, Jimmy Page, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, etc,
I bought my parents’ first microwave around 1979 or 1980. It was a monster! They used it for about 30 years.
Sticking War Babies in with the Silents is really NOT accurate! Late Silents remember WW II, War Babies don't! They are a tiny bridge between the two and share some things with both late Silents and very early Boomers.
War Babies lived through rationing, but don't remember it. They remember paper drives at school, to help the War effort during the Korean War; Boomers have NO idea what that even was.
There are many more such examples.
Kids born during WWII are Silent Generation, and they were the hippies, look at their generation in post 142.
“The mothers in the 70s did not keep junk food.”
That’s true. We never had “store-bought” cookies in the house. And if you opened the fridge door and saw ginger ale you knew somebody was sick.
#FJB #FTWDP
There WERE jobs, some madeup, re the WPA, and some that were just normal jobs.
Many men took big pay cuts, in order to keep their jobs. And women took jobs as store clerks, nannies, housekeepers, whatever they could find, to bring in extra money. No not all, but yes, that did happen.
+1 for both Chem Engineering and Computer Science. 🙂
A bus took us home from school at lunchtime. My brother and I went in, cooked lunch, ate it and caught the bus back to school.
“ Kids didn’t have convenience foods? What were the little kids cooking for themselves?”
Jiffy pop. Toast.
I have less than NO idea what the articles that I've read, with these dates were from...some in newspapers and others probably in a magazine/s. So I can't give you info re those.
I am sorry. Poor lady may have put much effort into holding out until you were grown out of love for you. I hope that was the case.
“Kids didn’t have convenience foods? What were the little kids cooking for themselves?”
Definitely not us Boomers! Moms were home and cooked real food. We had a family in our church whose mother worked as a nurse and there was no father around. We felt sorry for them because their mom was always working to support the family. Later we learned that dear ol’ dad was in prison for some sex thing with a minor. Other than that, mothers didn’t work outside the home. It was looked on as shameful.
Mom gave piano lessons — at home.
I've NEVER seen that used!
Yes, the ones who were young adults, during WW I, were much later called "THE LOST GENERATION"; though that was only a small part of that generation, as were called "THE BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS" in London. It was NEVER about that entire generation.
Absolutely horrible!!
I’ve always thought it would be a good thing to program TVs in prisons to show ONLY programs like Leave It To Beaver, Mayberry, Ozzie And Harriet, Cosby Show, etc., to immerse inmates into positive family values. Some most likely are clueless.
I’m trying to tell you that your information is crazy and not even close to the widely accepted terms and history, and lot of your posts are nonsense.
There is an endless supply of cut up niches and new terms and dates created by writers for various fields from advertising to real estate, to sociology, but all that is niche stuff and not of much use in a general conversation about the defined generations.
And I understood that the Boom was generally considered to have ended in 1964.
I am just amused with the fact that Boomers get blamed for things that happened in the early 60s when they were children and told that they are the reason Gen Z is so messed up because "you raised them!" With a very few exceptions, no.
No, I am not a Boomer but it does annoy me when they get blamed for things that were none of their doing.
“many Boomer kids were raised using the idiotic Dr. Spock Method. So a lot of them were coddled to some degree or another.”
I’m a Boomer — 1948 — and I noticed that my generation raised THEIR children to be coddled, disrespectful, and spoiled. Our parents raised us just the opposite, and it made no sense to see that differentiation.
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