Anonymous
07/05/2016 12:19
Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good Times
the Jeffersons
Different Strokes
You missed Facts of Life!
And a few years later it was Family Ties and Growing Pains (loved Kirk Cameron).
Anonymous
07/05/2016 10:50
Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I was born in '85 and a majority of what is mentioned here was part of my childhood.
But did your parents have an 8 track in their truck? Do you remember when we didn't have VCR's and microwaves?
We were poor so we didn't have that stuff anyway.
Anonymous
07/05/2016 10:00
Subject: Generation X
Lovervoy, Glass Tiger, Platinum Blonde, Trooper = the fromage bands
Anonymous
07/05/2016 09:43
Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:I was born in '85 and a majority of what is mentioned here was part of my childhood.
But did your parents have an 8 track in their truck? Do you remember when we didn't have VCR's and microwaves?
Anonymous
07/05/2016 09:15
Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:
I know. And that's actually dangerous, not knowing the actual numbers of loved ones. The only one I know offhand is my parents' number.
I keep my dad's and girlfriend's phone numbers in my wallet in case of emergency.
Anonymous
07/05/2016 09:04
Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Knight Rider - Friday nights
The A-Team
MacGyver, the top agent for the Phoenix Foundation.
Anonymous
07/05/2016 09:01
Subject: Generation X
Knight Rider - Friday nights
The A-Team
The A-Team
Anonymous
07/05/2016 08:59
Subject: Generation X
The Preppy Handbook!
Anonymous
07/05/2016 08:59
Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:I guess by definition I'm a Gen Xer--born in late 1978--but I don't really remember most of the stuff that's been mentioned. Or I remember, but it's fuzzy. And this is despite having an older sib. I think I'm a little stuck btwn Gen X and Millennials (although I don't feel like a Millennial either).
Probably b/c many of us were born in the late 60s and early 70s. You missed it.
Anonymous
07/05/2016 08:58
Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Good Times
the Jeffersons
Different Strokes
You missed Facts of Life!
Anonymous
07/05/2016 08:44
Subject: Re:Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Worst part about it is that we are the last of the kids were were more or less on our own as kids. The Boomers started all of the crazy crop with helicopter parenting and participation trophies and we have to succumb to as parents. What the fuck happened with the Boomers that they screwed up their kids and thus our kids childhood?
So, so true, and I think the new constant-monitoring method is worrisome. I'm in a group with some Millennials who are having kids, and they discuss which is the best video baby monitor. They literally watch the baby sleep. Then someone was putting a small table in her home office for her 4-yr-old to draw at -- yet it was going to arranged be so mom had her back to the kid while working at her own desk. The other women suggested putting a mirror on mom's desk so she could watch DC at her table. This is too much. To grow up being constantly monitored and on camera cannot be good.
How else will mommy know when to FB that morning's bowel movement?
Milestones are important!
Anonymous
07/05/2016 08:26
Subject: Re:Generation X
Anonymous wrote:
Worst part about it is that we are the last of the kids were were more or less on our own as kids. The Boomers started all of the crazy crop with helicopter parenting and participation trophies and we have to succumb to as parents. What the fuck happened with the Boomers that they screwed up their kids and thus our kids childhood?
So, so true, and I think the new constant-monitoring method is worrisome. I'm in a group with some Millennials who are having kids, and they discuss which is the best video baby monitor. They literally watch the baby sleep. Then someone was putting a small table in her home office for her 4-yr-old to draw at -- yet it was going to arranged be so mom had her back to the kid while working at her own desk. The other women suggested putting a mirror on mom's desk so she could watch DC at her table. This is too much. To grow up being constantly monitored and on camera cannot be good.
Anonymous
07/05/2016 08:05
Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Our parents were young and gorgeous and smoked
Anonymous
07/05/2016 07:58
Subject: Re:Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lots of great memories for us Gen-Xers. Too bad we are sandwiched between two very large and selfish generations. At least we gave a sh!t about something besides ourselves. Sigh!
+1
Preach.
+2. I feel like the Millennials are so impassive and self absorbed. Someone could be murdered in front of them and they wouldn't look up from their phone. Or they would tape it, but wouldn't lend a hand to help.
We X'ers are basically forgotten right now. We need to be louder, I think.
Most of us are children of "the silent generation", those who were born during the Depression and WW2. We are their echo and will always, from a demographic standpoint, live between the Boomers and their offspring, the Millenials.
Worst part about it is that we are the last of the kids were were more or less on our own as kids. The Boomers started all of the crazy crop with helicopter parenting and participation trophies and we have to succumb to as parents. What the fuck happened with the Boomers that they screwed up their kids and thus our kids childhood?
This is very poignant, PP. There is definitely a group of us early xers who come from the pre-boomers (if you are not, no need to comment on this particular strand). Sometimes I am so confused by what I see in the world versus my parents (who are the least grasping and greedy people you would ever meet) and my own values. Whatever happened to the Greater Good? What did happen in these two huge generations? Since I'm not part of it, I don't think I will every really understand. Now it is just up to us to say good riddance to the boomers, and try to guide and mentor the millenials.
Anonymous
07/05/2016 07:32
Subject: Re:Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lots of great memories for us Gen-Xers. Too bad we are sandwiched between two very large and selfish generations. At least we gave a sh!t about something besides ourselves. Sigh!
+1
Preach.
+2. I feel like the Millennials are so impassive and self absorbed. Someone could be murdered in front of them and they wouldn't look up from their phone. Or they would tape it, but wouldn't lend a hand to help.
We X'ers are basically forgotten right now. We need to be louder, I think.
Most of us are children of "the silent generation", those who were born during the Depression and WW2. We are their echo and will always, from a demographic standpoint, live between the Boomers and their offspring, the Millenials.
Worst part about it is that we are the last of the kids were were more or less on our own as kids. The Boomers started all of the crazy crop with helicopter parenting and participation trophies and we have to succumb to as parents. What the fuck happened with the Boomers that they screwed up their kids and thus our kids childhood?
My parents were very much Boomers. They were born in 1946. I was born in 1969. I think a lot of us had Boomer parents. My parents had a lot of the Silent Generation mentality though. They inherited a lot of their parents Depression era habits.
+1. My Boomer parents were born in '46 and '48, I was born in '73. My parents are a weird mix of old world and new world. I am a solid Gen Xer.