Stop calling Gen X people "Boomers"

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z has boomer parents????what the F!

Not a ton, but if you end the Boomers at 1965 and start Gen Z in 1997, then older parents who are at the edge of the Boomers can have kids who are at the edge of GenZ.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

Jen Z is bitterly screwed up. They have lost the ability to evaluate evidence and simply repeat whatever is trending on their preferred social media. Bunch of green-haired zombie children who will screw anything that moves and waste their lives going down rabbit holes to find the perfect bizarre subculture for their Tick Tock presence. I am the Gen X parent of an undergrad who also works with undergrads and I am devastated that the kids are so deeply not alright. Most of these freaks have Boomer parents whose own disturbed behavior normalized depravity and led to this disaster. If the human race survives another generation it will be a miracle.

I know a lot of Gen Z kids. They're nothing like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z has boomer parents????what the F!

Not a ton, but if you end the Boomers at 1965 and start Gen Z in 1997, then older parents who are at the edge of the Boomers can have kids who are at the edge of GenZ.

I think the boom should end at 1960.

[Anonymous]

I’m a 43 year old Gen X married to my 45 year old Gen X Dh. We have 2 high schoolers.

My kids and I call Dh boomer. He totally acts like one. I feel like I was duped when I married him. His boomer-ness became more obvious over the past 10 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z has boomer parents????what the F!

Not a ton, but if you end the Boomers at 1965 and start Gen Z in 1997, then older parents who are at the edge of the Boomers can have kids who are at the edge of GenZ.

I think the boom should end at 1960.

I'm the PP who quoted the 1965 stat and I definitely hear where you're coming from. The edges are going to be blurry regardless. But my sister was born in 1963 and it's tough for me to think of her as a Boomer. Kids growing up in the 50s had a very different experience than kids growing up in the 70s. I think they know they're going to start the Boomer generation in 1945 and then they figure a "generation" is 20 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a 43 year old Gen X married to my 45 year old Gen X Dh. We have 2 high schoolers.

My kids and I call Dh boomer. He totally acts like one. I feel like I was duped when I married him. His boomer-ness became more obvious over the past 10 years.

what boomer traits does he exhibit?

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Nope. I’m going to keep doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. I’m going to keep doing it.

Attaboy. Hang tough, champ.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a 43 year old Gen X married to my 45 year old Gen X Dh. We have 2 high schoolers.

My kids and I call Dh boomer. He totally acts like one. I feel like I was duped when I married him. His boomer-ness became more obvious over the past 10 years.

what boomer traits does he exhibit?

Stuck in his ways, staying with the same job forever, not savvy with texts and email, wants a house bigger than we need, decorates it like his parents, wants the sports car that just makes him look older, doesn’t care much about the environment or giving back to the community, insists on having basically a full bar in the house for show and never throws away the empty bottles he likes, collects ugly souvenirs.

He just feels ancient to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. I’m going to keep doing it.

But an anonymous person on the internet instructed you to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

GenX'er here and I agree. My young adult kids, and their friends, are generally a hardworking, responsible, and respectful group. They've had to deal with this pandemic, and all the other crazy of the last 2 years, and have done so. It's hard enough being a 'seasoned' adult right now, imagine being like 20!

[Anonymous]

I live in a neighborhood where a lot of the residents are in their 50’s or early 60’s. Their adult children run the gamut from highly successful, married with children, etc. to still living at home and underemployed, and everything in between. That’s why it’s silly to generalize about “generations.”

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

Jen Z is bitterly screwed up. They have lost the ability to evaluate evidence and simply repeat whatever is trending on their preferred social media. Bunch of green-haired zombie children who will screw anything that moves and waste their lives going down rabbit holes to find the perfect bizarre subculture for their Tick Tock presence. I am the Gen X parent of an undergrad who also works with undergrads and I am devastated that the kids are so deeply not alright. Most of these freaks have Boomer parents whose own disturbed behavior normalized depravity and led to this disaster. If the human race survives another generation it will be a miracle.

Most of the Gen Z kids you know have Boomer parents?

Agree that seems odd. I am a very young boomer, had kids in my 30s and they are both millennials. I have a few friends with Gen Z kids but not many - unless they are men with younger wives.

Both myself and my wife are boomers first marriage we have a 21,19 and 14 year old. Pretty normal

What?? That is not normal. My mom was a young Boomer (1957) and I am 41. So even if you were born around the time of my mom, you are really really old to have kids those ages. Even the youngest boomers are 60.

No they are not. I am born 1962 and wife 1964. My youngest is in ninth grade. My cousin she pushed the envelope married at 40 to a 50 year old. They had kids 42, 44, 46 and him 52, 54 and 56. She born 1959 and him 1949. They still have kids in college. I think he is one of the few Dads born in 1940s with a kid in college!

My grandparents and great grandparents pre birth control had lots of kids. 8-12 common. They all had kids to mid 40s. I am 59 if my Mother was alive she be 96 and my grandmother would be 135 years old. I think a brief period of time in 1940s to 1980s moms had kids young and stopped. Today moms have kids later and in pre 1940s when moms had 6-12 kids the last kids are all in mid 40s.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

Jen Z is bitterly screwed up. They have lost the ability to evaluate evidence and simply repeat whatever is trending on their preferred social media. Bunch of green-haired zombie children who will screw anything that moves and waste their lives going down rabbit holes to find the perfect bizarre subculture for their Tick Tock presence. I am the Gen X parent of an undergrad who also works with undergrads and I am devastated that the kids are so deeply not alright. Most of these freaks have Boomer parents whose own disturbed behavior normalized depravity and led to this disaster. If the human race survives another generation it will be a miracle.

Most of the Gen Z kids you know have Boomer parents?

Agree that seems odd. I am a very young boomer, had kids in my 30s and they are both millennials. I have a few friends with Gen Z kids but not many - unless they are men with younger wives.

Both myself and my wife are boomers first marriage we have a 21,19 and 14 year old. Pretty normal

What?? That is not normal. My mom was a young Boomer (1957) and I am 41. So even if you were born around the time of my mom, you are really really old to have kids those ages. Even the youngest boomers are 60.

+1. You may have done it but it’s definitely not normal to have a child in your mid-late 40s. I don’t know how it could be possible that, as pp said, most of the gen z kids she knows have boomer parents. The vast majority of gen z kids have gen x parents because most people have kids in their late 20s-early/mid 30s.

Not in NW DC. Elementary school parents are often in their 40s here.

Right but having an ES kid in your 40s is obviously different than having an infant at 46. Even for DC that is decidedly old.

I don’t know I was 50 when my daughter started kindergarten and I did not feel old at all. My buddy was 53 and he said a few 60 year old dads at kindergarten orientation although they were second marriages.

I mean unless you have rusty sperm not uncommon. Look Tony Randal. Alex Baldwin, Benjiman Franklin all had kids later in life. And Moms are joining the party. 50 year old Moms in preschool is now not uncommon

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

Jen Z is bitterly screwed up. They have lost the ability to evaluate evidence and simply repeat whatever is trending on their preferred social media. Bunch of green-haired zombie children who will screw anything that moves and waste their lives going down rabbit holes to find the perfect bizarre subculture for their Tick Tock presence. I am the Gen X parent of an undergrad who also works with undergrads and I am devastated that the kids are so deeply not alright. Most of these freaks have Boomer parents whose own disturbed behavior normalized depravity and led to this disaster. If the human race survives another generation it will be a miracle.

Most of the Gen Z kids you know have Boomer parents?

Agree that seems odd. I am a very young boomer, had kids in my 30s and they are both millennials. I have a few friends with Gen Z kids but not many - unless they are men with younger wives.

Both myself and my wife are boomers first marriage we have a 21,19 and 14 year old. Pretty normal

What?? That is not normal. My mom was a young Boomer (1957) and I am 41. So even if you were born around the time of my mom, you are really really old to have kids those ages. Even the youngest boomers are 60.

+1. You may have done it but it’s definitely not normal to have a child in your mid-late 40s. I don’t know how it could be possible that, as pp said, most of the gen z kids she knows have boomer parents. The vast majority of gen z kids have gen x parents because most people have kids in their late 20s-early/mid 30s.

Not in NW DC. Elementary school parents are often in their 40s here.

Right but having an ES kid in your 40s is obviously different than having an infant at 46. Even for DC that is decidedly old.

I don’t know I was 50 when my daughter started kindergarten and I did not feel old at all. My buddy was 53 and he said a few 60 year old dads at kindergarten orientation although they were second marriages.

I mean unless you have rusty sperm not uncommon. Look Tony Randal. Alex Baldwin, Benjiman Franklin all had kids later in life. And Moms are joining the party. 50 year old Moms in preschool is now not uncommon

But you were. Some people have kids when they are old. Some gen z kids do have boomer parents. Most don’t. It is not the norm, regardless of how old you do or do not feel.