Boomers? I always thought of this as more a Gen X thing.
I agree. The moms of Boomers were usually homemakers.
Boomers? I always thought of this as more a Gen X thing.
You are correct
Agreed. Middle class boomers had stay at home moms. And lots of folks could be somewhere in the middle class on a single income.
Well, this was written by a young kid who doesn’t know any better.
It is. There is simply no end to Boomer grift at the expense of GenX. The Babies were the most coddled and mothered generation in human history, resulting in their eternal infantilization. It was GenX which was left to raise itself so that the Babies could run around like perpetual teenagers. The author is a fool.
Right. This author is confused. Boomers had stay at home moms.
...and the “hellicopter”-ing thing didnt really become an issue until M came along.
My two sons were latch-key kids. I got divorced in 1979. They were 13 and 8 at the time. I had to work full time to support us. In 1980, I took a job with NY State, and we moved to Auburn, NY so I could take the job. We stayed there until 1983 when I was able to transfer back to this area, where we had been living when I took the job. Me and my sons were born in Rochester, N.Y.
At one point I got good at baking my own cinnamon and sugar "something" on a cookie sheet. Come to think of it, my beautiful Wife of fifty years would never let me do something like that.
Despite having an author’s name, many of these “list-icals” read like they’re AI generated.
We gen x’ers are the new boomers.
Definitely not Boomers. This Gen-X thinks its Gen-Y/Millenial phenomenon
In my neighborhood in the 1970s and early 80s, moms were mostly at home. After school all of us kids gathered in the street to play as a large group. And any one of the moms on the street was allowed to kick our butts if they saw any of us misbehaving.
Indeed most boomers mom was home
If u “grew up” in 70s
Not a boomer
I’m peak year and was 10 in 1967
We were however free range kids
I lived where city met woods and farms
It was perfect
-PJ
Yes, Boomers... very common to come home and take care of oneself. Snack, chores, homework or in my case toss in swimteam and weight workouts as well.
I am still confounded by the generation of hypervigilant parents and kids came from or how it started.
Just had a chat with the nephew his son turned 17 and has no interest in learning how to drive. We talked about how when we were both that age getting that drivers license was what we wanted so badly. It meant ‘freedom’ as he put it. He talked with another parent about it and same thing with their kids too.
It is an X thing. A few Boomers maybe but we ended in ‘65. Some were latchkey kids but few.