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I was born in 1965, last of four children. So I'm either a post-pre-boomer or a pre-post-boomer.
I never thought of myself as a baby boomer.
June 6, 1963 here
I was born in 1956. Every reference I have read placed me at the tail end of the baby boom. I always thought it was more of a post war phenomenon.
I've always thought boomers were better qualified as the children of parents who were adults during WWII(greatest generation). This really sets my husband's family apart--his parents were just too young to have been parents during the immediate post WWII. I can tell you my mil is obviously from a different generation than my grandmother was even though they do share similar values and my husband(they youngest of 7 and born in 61) and his siblings really seem very different than say my father(1946 and 2nd oldest) and his siblings. So I would qualify boomers as anyone born within 10 years of the end of WWII and born to parents who were adults during the war and in its immediate aftermath, but I don't make the rules.
BTW, as someone in their 20's during the 80's, my hubby definitely relates better to me as a genxer who was a teen in the 80's than say to my parents who were well into their 30's during the 80's.
Funny, but I expected to feel a lot older at 40. Having been born in '64, I've never really identified with the Boomer label. To me, the Boomers are the entitled generation, X-ers the disaffected, and I'm caught in the middle.
And the source of that knowledge is?
Lying TV ads.
Lying politicians.
Lying, planted "news" articles promoting one food stuff or other.
Lying books promoting one scheme or other.
Lying experts who say that you should never have to experience a single second of discomfort during your entire lifetime, relief is just a pill away.
Lying. . . .
RE: Now we can't start the debate as to what is a "boomer"
I thought the term applied to people born immediately after W.W.II.
It was a time of new prosperity in the USA
All the fortunate offsprings never had to pay
We had sympathy for the devil and the Rolling Stones
Then we got a little older, we found Haggard and Jones
A generation screaming for more room
Kids of the baby boom
Kids of the baby boom, we had freedom, we had money
Baby boom, here in the land of milk and honey
Counting our chickens way too soon
Kids of the baby boom
Now we all can run computers and we all can dance
We all have Calvin Klein written on our underpants
And at six-o'clock, like robots, we turn on the news
Watch those third world countries deal out more abuse
Remember the first man on the moon
Kids of the baby boom
As our lives become a capsule they send to the stars
And our children look at us like we came from Mars
As the farms disappear and the sky turns black
We're a nation full of takers, never giving back
We never stop to think what we consume
Kids of the baby boom
Our optimism mingles with the doom
Kids of the baby boom
The Bellamy Brothers
40 yrs old this year or old enough to remember black & white was the color television.
I slipped in easily.
Oh Joy! The last of the ME generation is fixing to have their mid life crisis.
I hit 40 this year, and I am not a baby boomer, I am a Brady Boomer!
A great market for the medical industry, cosmetology and yes.... the funeral industry.
Well, now you've gone & done it. I keep telling my husband that since he was born in 63, he's not a boomer. I really thought that 59 was the last of the baby boom.
Guess I have to grudgingly let him into the club (Yeah, I WAS a few years older than him, till he hit his 40th last December - at which point, he became the older spouse ;-) )
This really makes the case that most people, even the press and the people who keep statistics don't know what a baby boomer is. The real definition of a baby boomer from the time of the words 'baby boomer' was coin is:
More babies were born one year after a war that was above what a normal year of births before a war's end. So only ONE YEAR is qualified as a baby boomer. That year is '1946'. Any other year does not qualify one as a baby boomer. In the 1980s for some reason (I don't know why) the meaning of baby boomer's started to mean a span of years starting from 1946 onward and the span has gotten longer as the years went by.
Is this why programs as "The Extreme Makeover" have such a success ??
The promise of ETERNAL YOUTH......
That leaves me out.
I never completely understood that thing to begin with....