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[quote=Anonymous]First - I am GenX.

I have two kids about 5 years apart and over time have noticed that the parents of the older ones classmates tend to skew toward Xers while the younger’s classmates parents skew toward Millennials.

I also did some volunteer work for both kids ECs over an extended period of time so had lots of interactions with parents.

There is a very clear difference to me between the X parents vs the Millennials (who I’m going to call Ys bc it’s too darn long to type out Millennials.)

Xers tend to be more laid back, don’t overshare, do not have as much hands on guidance with their kids.

Ys helicopter. They need to get every single question answered on their kids behalf, know “why” everything is the way it is, share all their kid’s problems.

My younger kid is entering middle school and I am watching the constant stream of questions on the class Facebook page and it is alarming.

Tell me I am wrong about this.  These kids are going to ba a hot mess as adults. Their parents do everything for them

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