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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an older X that had kids late.  So, most of my peers have kids that are older than ours, but I saw them parenting before I had kids.  Most of the parents of my children's peers are millennials and I see them when our kids get together.

I have seen both types (relaxed vs helicopter) parents from every generation.  I think the generalizations are stereotypes and you can't really stereotype based on age or generation. [/quote]
I agree with this though I do find myself rolling my eyes at the helicopters. That said, kids need personalized parenting and I'm a hypocrite. The relaxed style I had for the first kid is not working on the second. [/quote]

And this is one of the reasons why I say you can't generalize by the parents age.  You are not the only ones that had to change parenting style based on having two distinctly different kids.  I also know parents who divorced and remarried and the dynamics of the second marriage are different from the first.  I find that parents who had children younger tend to be more similar than parents of the same ages.  So X and Y parents who had kids young are more likely to be similar and X and Y parents who had kids when older are more likely to be similar.  Lots of factors that are much more important than how old the parents are.[/quote]

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