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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of Boomer parents get competitive with their friends over how much their children and grandchildren dote on them. Facebook has made this so much worse, because now they can see how some of their friends have (or at least appear to have) really close families who celebrate together a lot, and then they want it too.

The problem for me is that my parents didn't do any of this stuff when I was a kid. They forgot my own birthday on multiple occasions. I guarantee my dad couldn't tell you the month that my birthday is in, much less the day. When I told my mom I was getting married, she said, "Well, hopefully we can make it." So the expectation now that I'm going to make a huge deal out of their anniversary or their milestone birthdays always takes me by surprise. Mostly it makes me feel sorry for them. I think they are seeing now that some of their peers raised their families with love and mutual respect, and that is paying dividends now. I would rather focus on making sure my own kids have a better experience now than catering to my parents' hurt feelings.[/quote]

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