Way to go Generation X...
Excellent article! I'm glad to see my wife and I are not in the minority. Please add me to your list. Thanks!
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Written by Laura DeMarco, a GenX'er.
"We're better than yooooouuuu aaaaarrreeeeee."
Puleeze. Don't we have better things to do than re-enact the third grade?
Frankly, the real reason for it is that our average IQ is higher than the baby boomers'. Just don't say that too loud.
Wow....this is the first time I've ever seen my birth year (1965) included in Gen X!!! 1965 had always been the year without a generation.
Everything I've ever seen has the boomers ending in 1964, but the earliest I had ever seen Gen X starting was 1966 -- usually it was 1967 though. The period between Kennedy and the Summer of Love (1967) was usually a fairly undefined period lost in limbo -- which is fine with me!
I don't fit into either generation, and neither does anyone else in my peer group that I know. Still, it's good to know that Gen X has somehow managed to learn from the mistakes of Baby Boomer parents.
The whole Benjamin Spock/Peace-Love/Groovy thing just didn't cut it. I'm glad to see that the MTV generation isn't letting their own mind-numbing hogwash influence the way they raise their kids!
Maybe there's hope after all.....
Please don't paint all boomers with the same brush. I am a boomer (DOB: 1951). I was raised in a small town, watched "The Mickey Mouse Club", "Captain Kangaroo" and "Howdy Doody" and went to church every Sunday. My parents told my brother and I that if we got into trouble at school, we would get it twice-over when we got home. We definitely knew our parameters. I got a job when I was 16 and worked my way through college. My husband was raised the same. I was a stay-at-home mom to my daughter. We raised her the same way we were raised - with love, discipline and respect for other people. Guess I missed out on all of the hippie, free love, me-first stuff. Now we are two middle-aged, conservative, hard-working Republicans looking foward to our retirement!
A better case can be made for those alive during the Rev. War, WBTS, Great Depression, WWII, and so on.
Ah. Beware the siren song of self-congratulation.
23 yr old mom to a 3 month old, married to a 39 yr old. We are the beginning and end of Gen X, and this article describes us well.
I'm a gen-Xer stay at home mom with 3 girls. :) One thing that I believed helped our generation the most is that most of us were growing up during the Reagan years. A lot of his optimism transcended onto us. Then, we had the learning experience of the Clinton years ( our rebellion period). Now any generation that is giving the opportunity to compare and contrast these 2 administrations and what the country was like as a result should gravitate to the more conservative.
I don't know why I find it funny...but the idea of a bunch of hippy liberals (generalizing here)...
Breeding a generation of Rebelling Conservatives is hilarious.
Viva la Reagan Revolution. Maybe he was speaking of us the whole time.
I'm about ready for his tax revolt to hit
Bingo.
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Before the women of Gen X reach menopause, something needs to be done to promote having more children. The Boomer effect will be like "Groundhog Day" - the Boomlet are largely chips off the old block and if they don't reform, they will further propagate the madness. Gen X needs to doubly replace itself, averaging 4 plus kids per couple and then some, to account for the barren. Adopting from other countries can also help.
This sounds just like my Gen-X family. Thing about it is, I am completely unsurprised by this. The era in which we grew up was about a rebirth in traditional values (mostly under Reagan). It also doesn't surprise me that the "experts" completely missed it...again.
This Gen Xer does not intend to have any kids. Society is sick, getting sicker and one in which I don't intend to raise children in.
"Discipline returning".
Gen Xers like myself have probably read the book: "The Epidemic. The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children." By Robert Shaw.
Excellent book, I devoured it.