I’ve lurked on several recent posts about deteriorating behaviour in schools, with increasing violence and 4 and 5 year olds who don’t have basic skills.
I’ve also seen threads and SM posts about boomers, mainly negative. But it’s also acknowledged that GenX are quite a hardy, resilient bunch.
I am generation X, and have brought up my genZ children differently to how I was raised. I was more present in their lives, made huge efforts to meet their needs in a way that my parents didn’t, as did many other parents in my age group.
You don’t need to look hard to find criticism of Millenials and GenZ, and GenAlpha (2012+) are commonly discussed as nightmare fodder.
Did the benign neglect and distanced parenting of boomers work better for growing children? Did the freedom that GenX had make a huge difference in their development?
I know there are global issues that contribute - the internet must have made a huge difference to both parenting and in child development, financially GenX had an easier time of becoming independent from parents, all this will have an effect.
I wonder if this is just a blip in human development, or how genZ and future generations will parent their children in response to how they were parented.
Thought this would make an interesting discussion.
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Did boomers get it right?
GreyGoosehound · 25/03/2024 11:15
SignoraVolpe · 25/03/2024 11:56
I’m technically a boomer and the thing that strikes me about dc born in the last 20 years is how their parents seem terrified of upsetting them.
I frequently told my dc that life is tough and the sooner they realise that the better they’ll cope.
I also think that the internet has a big impact on teens. They are easily influenced and prefer to believe shite pedalled online rather than their parents.
GreyGoosehound · 25/03/2024 12:20
There a book out about this at the moment - Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier.
I'll look that up, it sounds interesting.
Denou · 25/03/2024 12:17
There a book out about this at the moment - Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier.
However, you have to remember that Gen X were also extremely criticised when they were younger. They were called nihilistic (rave generation) disaffected and unambitious (McJobs). It’s only in later adulthood that they’ve become appreciated.
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