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My generation, called “baby boomers”.
Minimal Parental involvement, and extended family too far away to have a positive influence.
Not surprised at all by all of this. The boomer generation is now worrying about their own aging and and their kid’s future. Thank-you Obama!
Their forthcoming Chinese overlords will be much tougher on them than we Baby-boomers ever were.
A few more decades of bone-crushing deficits have done their work on the economy. This isn’t the economy I saw when I was starting out, and I could walk down any street and get a job. I was very casual about changing jobs because there was always another one and better.
It isn’t just the kids starting out that can’t find work, anyone hitting the streets right now is going to have a tough time.
The older ones out of work have the memory of how it once was and could be. The young ones don’t have that memory and will tend to accept things as just how it is. So the psychology is different.
I never brag about my generation. I think they are a historical embarrassment. My peers are the ones who mocked what our grandparents built and threw away what our parents left us.
MTV, public schools, and Howard Stern.
Bullcrap. The oldest boomers turned 20 in '65. If "you didn't build that" was ever a true saying, it was about boomers and the post-WW2 prosperity.
Some of what we built ended up being helpful, productive, and good. And some of it has left a scattered jigsaw puzzle of a world for our children to try to decode.
That's an interesting way to describe the vapid moral climate that boomers fostered. Now with my kids, I have to be very careful about the proliferation of drugs, socialism, and free sex they've glorified aloud since the 60's.
This is a dumb article. Millenials are GenXers kids, maybe a little crossover. I remember when I was young they called GenXers lazy, unmotivated, the kind of “whatever” group.
Xers
maybe even worse than boomers which were bad enuff on whole
i’m a boomer parent and have young kids for an old fart but deal with parents 10-20 years younger than me and 10 years younger on average than dear wifey
how young folks parent amazes me..it’s like Spock on adderal
ubercoddling moms
dominant women in family even if stay at home
metero dads
afraid to let boys be boys...boys stay inside all day and play games...up to 15 or so...and guns...maybe airsoft if they are lucky
over sexualized girls
PC on hot issues
and I live in a veruy conservative county in middle TN with churches everywhere
when i was in Oregon recently...western part...i thought i was in some weird sci fi movie
it is cloyingly PC
kids...you can judge freedom today by how few helmets and kneepads they were for crap we woulda done naked
this is what killed white men in the west
Great article, I can’t tell you how many times (I as a youngish 32 yo) man has felt that the older generation is merely complaining or jealous (of my youth) when all I want to do is have the same chance they did!
I am not your enemy (older generations), and am in fact quite conservative.
-JS.
Lets be allies in Christ!
I just saw an internet site today where the new generation goes to vent their frustrations over the current economy. It was pretty interesting reading:
http://www.quickmeme.com/Old-Economy-Steven/popular/?upcoming