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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok sociologists, Explain Boomer Grandparenting to me.  What happened in Boomer history that made this a thing?

I am elder millennial former latch key kid. My Boomer parents preached raising an independent kid as their #1 value for parenting.

Fast forward: They have close to zero interest in grand parenting. Ask them to help out in an emergency, Boomer mom pulls out a calendar and say “well, we have Canasta at 3. How about three weeks from now?”

This creator who does Boomer Mom
Videos sums it up perfect. It’s a continuous guilt trip, not wanting to grandparent, and always being too busy. Also lots of double speak that makes you toss up your hands and say “why did I even bother.”

So, what in Boomer history influenced this parenting style?

https://www.tiktok.com/@callmekristenmarie/video/7476110074436472095
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That content developer is so wrong,  and apparently just dumb, too.  She sends up the wrong generation, and it's pathetic.  This isn't Boomer. It's  the generation before,  the Boomer's parents.

She lives in the midwest, she's satirizing regional white uneducated  people, but not generally a Boomer. It's so off it's stunning.  And it's super tiresome because she has plenty of company  online, but it's  all not at all factual. She paints them as computer illiterate,  scatterbrained, judgemental  against living together out of wedlock,  tattoo phobic, alternate lifestyle phobic,  insular, conservative, blah blah, blah.  That is not Boomer- Boomers started all that in society. If it’s at all Boomer, it might have  to do with the oldest Boomers if they are still around..in their late 70s,  80s. I find her very annoying. [/quote]

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