Ever notice how no one ever complains about Gen X?

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Anonymous wrote:Because no one cares about you, Jan!

It's Jen 4/10 are Jens!

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

Haha! Sorry I'm a bit late to the party.

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Reality Bites was commentary on the slacker, entitled Gen X.

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Anonymous wrote:Latch key kids, we were responsible, still got spanked when I talked back, and wasn't treated as a "special snowflake" nor had helicopter parents. I think I turned out ok.

Former latchkeys that now want people arrested for leaving their 10 year old alone while they make a quick trip.

Yes -- because we hated it and don't want people to do that to their children!

Speak for yourself! I was a latchkey from the age of 9 or 10 onwards, and thought it was fine.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't ever remember the start and end dates for the specific generations.
There sure is a lot of discussion on DCUM about it.


I just looked it all up. Here is a chart I found:

The Greatest Generation 1910 1925
The Silent Generation 1923 1944
Baby Boomers 1945 1964
Generation X 1961 1981
Millennials 1975 1995
Generation Z 1995 2015

If you were born in the years that are listed as overlapping years here, or in the years close to those border years, do you feel more a part of one or the other generation?


I was born in one of those in between years and one of my kids was, also. I don't really feel part of either generation. My child hasn't really thought about it much yet, but I wonder what he'll think when he's older.

I was born in 1964 and am neither baby boomer nor gen-xer. My parents were Depression babies. My grandparents were born at the turn of the century or earlier (one was born in 1888). My children are also between generations as they are 1997 and 1999. I doubt they will identify with millenials.

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Apparently I was born at the tail end of Gen X but identify with them far more than with Millennials. Thanks for posting the breakdown PP.

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Gen Xer here. I'm a college professor. Many of my students were raised by Gen X parents, and I meet these parents at events for prospective students. Helicopter parenting doesn't begin to describe what they do.

Snowplow parenting is more like it. Our deans have to remind us not to answer their calls complaining about grades.

Although I agree that we're a self sufficient generation, many of us are raising helpless kids who are far less confident and competent than we were.

I take it as a wake-up call for me as a parent.

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Oh, hey there, Gen Xers!: No, we Boomers and Millenials never complain about you. We're having too much fun together laughing at your self-righteous bitching.

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Anonymous wrote:Latch key kids, we were responsible, still got spanked when I talked back, and wasn't treated as a "special snowflake" nor had helicopter parents. I think I turned out ok.

Former latchkeys that now want people arrested for leaving their 10 year old alone while they make a quick trip.

Yes -- because we hated it and don't want people to do that to their children!

Also, we know what goes on when kids are left home alone!

+1 and you would be shocked how young we were when we did things as latchkey children

I wouldn't be shocked at all. You might be shocked to find that your snowplow parenting ( thanks professor) does little to prevent what you think it does.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, hey there, Gen Xers!: No, we Boomers and Millenials never complain about you. We're having too much fun together laughing at your self-righteous bitching.

Teehee!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I remember being a teen in the 90s and seeing a lot of media coverage of the "slacker generation" (Generation X). Now nobody says anything about Generation X: it is all about the Special Snowflake generation. What happened?

Those that called you slackers were your parents and grandparents generation. They retired and you assumed the throne and the role of complaining about the spoiled younger generation and the selfish and clueless generation before you, ignoring your faults and focusing on the good aspects.

It's what everyone does. Well not everyone I think yours is the first generation to complain about not being noticed enough. The cycle will continue. You generation will be replaced the generation after you will complain about how selfish and clueless you were and the damage you caused the planet and economy and rant about how spoiled the generation after them is.

Wrong. The "slacker generation" is Gen X, not "your parents and grandparents [sic] generation." Please figure out what people are talking about before posting ignorant rants.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I remember being a teen in the 90s and seeing a lot of media coverage of the "slacker generation" (Generation X). Now nobody says anything about Generation X: it is all about the Special Snowflake generation. What happened?

Those that called you slackers were your parents and grandparents generation. They retired and you assumed the throne and the role of complaining about the spoiled younger generation and the selfish and clueless generation before you, ignoring your faults and focusing on the good aspects.

It's what everyone does. Well not everyone I think yours is the first generation to complain about not being noticed enough. The cycle will continue. You generation will be replaced the generation after you will complain about how selfish and clueless you were and the damage you caused the planet and economy and rant about how spoiled the generation after them is.

Wrong. The "slacker generation" is Gen X, not "your parents and grandparents [sic] generation." Please figure out what people are talking about before posting ignorant rants.

I completely disagree. DH and I are both Gen X, he is the hardest worker ever, and I work just as hard. We have worked and accumulated more than our parents, baby boomers, and I can see that we will have more than our Millennial kids will ever have. Baby Boomer parents all worked a lot too, but didn't have much drive to advance and seemed content with ok jobs and average houses and such. I have to admit that looking at how much we worked and still work, I am at fault for my lazy millennial kids. One part of it is both DH and I provide too much for them and enable them to be lazy and entitled. Baby boomer parents never did any of that for us, even if that was for selfish reason, that made us hard workers and earn everything we have. There is a group of wealthy Gen X that brought on the "all about me" culture and while they couldn't quite enjoy it as they had to work, they introduced it to millennials with vengeance. In my opinion, it is a paradox that we created, we worked hard and often failed to install the same work ethic to our kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Because we are perfect.

Hardly.

You are the ones responsible for the start of this over the top helicopter stlyle parenting that has been on the rise the last 10 years.

You are the ones who want a law and a ban on everything under the sun.

Future generations are going to love you.

We also had the best music, best movies, Terminator, Alien, Jurassic Park... We traveled all over the world, we lived. I think it is the younger Gen X that messed up, I am an early Gen X geezer.

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The Greatest Generation 1910 1925
The Silent Generation 1923 1944
Baby Boomers 1945 1964
Generation X 1961 1981
Millennials 1975 1995
Generation Z 1995 2015

I was born in 1977. So I am both a Gen Xer and a Millennial? Yeah, no. #NeverMillennial

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Anonymous wrote:Because we are perfect.

Hardly.

You are the ones responsible for the start of this over the top helicopter stlyle parenting that has been on the rise the last 10 years.

You are the ones who want a law and a ban on everything under the sun.

Future generations are going to love you.

We also had the best music, best movies, Terminator, Alien, Jurassic Park... We traveled all over the world, we lived. I think it is the younger Gen X that messed up, I am an early Gen X geezer.

The best music belonged to the Boomers. Hands down.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I remember being a teen in the 90s and seeing a lot of media coverage of the "slacker generation" (Generation X). Now nobody says anything about Generation X: it is all about the Special Snowflake generation. What happened?

Those that called you slackers were your parents and grandparents generation. They retired and you assumed the throne and the role of complaining about the spoiled younger generation and the selfish and clueless generation before you, ignoring your faults and focusing on the good aspects.

It's what everyone does. Well not everyone I think yours is the first generation to complain about not being noticed enough. The cycle will continue. You generation will be replaced the generation after you will complain about how selfish and clueless you were and the damage you caused the planet and economy and rant about how spoiled the generation after them is.

Wrong. The "slacker generation" is Gen X, not "your parents and grandparents [sic] generation." Please figure out what people are talking about before posting ignorant rants.

Reading comprehension. Please master that skill before attacking people.