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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think this has anything to do with millennials or the economy or anything listed here. Anyone who has taught or worked with children over the past 20-30 years can tell you that parents are massively more anxious and hovering than they used to be, and this is due to one thing: the Internet. Since the late 1990s parents have made the internet into an echo chamber of their anxieties, causing everything from the ridiculous anti-vaccine movement to the epidemic of “have you had your child tested??” diagnoses.

And most of the parents doing all of this have been Gen X, not Millenials.[/quote]

I guess it's nice to have one's existence acknowledged - a rare occurrence -- even if it's only to be blamed.

-Gen Xer[/quote]

Yeah, me too. I was going to say something but then thought I'd just shrug, roll my eyes, and adjust my flannel shirt and ripped jeans instead. We are raising the bleeding edge of iGen, if that name sticks, the first generation who grew up knowing how to swipe an iPhone before they knew how to feed themselves. We'll see how we did. My 12 year old is pretty damn awesome, and I think they are going to be fine. For what it is worth I think Millenials are fine, too - in some respects they are just the mirror of the Boomers who raised them. And if Millenials disrupt the workplace enough that my son comes of age into a world where its expected that we treat staff as people with needs and frailties and not as widgets...well, then, I bless them. And if in the end snowflake Millenials make it so that fewer LGBTQ kids are bullied, and fewer racists can hurt people, I thank them for that, too. Carry on.[/quote]

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