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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you millennials have maybe an idealized memory.  I’m Gen C and babysit a lot of you in the 80s and 90s and your Boomer Parents basically invented helicopter parenting.  Before that women were housewives.  But the Boomer generation had all these women who had college degrees and started off with professional careers but the work life balance just wasn’t there, so they invented the concept of “stay at home mom” as a job.  Literally no one said that before the 80s/90s.  And once that was your job, you had to fill iit — the same with the moms of the greatest and silent generation treated the house as they job and spend endless hours scrubbing and vacuuming and so forth.  So the idea that you know think you were all free range on the 90s is somewhat laughable to me.  From my perspective, the Gen X parents are much more lax with our kids, partly because more of us stayed in the workforce and have pushed back on the unreasonable expectations that the boomer moms created (including stuff like volunteering in the classroom which again was not a thing before boomer moms invented it).  
I don’t want to sound anti boomer—my siblings are all boomers and I love them.  But the shift from “housewife” to “stay at home mom” was a real thing that carried with it a real change in parenting styles.

So I don’t see the 90s as some watershed moment.  The advent of affordable smart phones, however, was.  [/quote]

Damn. I'm a millenial and love this. [/quote]

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