Anonymous wrote:Boomers are too busy and galavanting around on vacations to help their kids and grand kids, sad. Another example of boomer selfishness on top of the wealth taking and focusing younger generations to find their lifestyles, sad.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/millennials-feel-abandoned-parents-available-help-raise-grandkids-busy.amp

Poor millennials. Mommy and daddy won't take care of their grandkids
Lazy boomers. Don't they know it's their job to take care of our children,! Bad, bad grand mommies and grand daddies,!

Anonymous wrote:Having kids is a personal decision and raising them is a personal responsibility. Its great if you've a village but if not then it-a job still needed to be done.

Its also something that is pushed on people as an expectation. These galavanting “grandparents” should stop asking when are you having kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomer here who got help exactly once, for two hours, from my Greatest Generation parents. Otherwise, I was completely on my own. They lived 10 minutes away from me. I try very hard to help my Millennial child with the grandchildren and will do the same for my Gen Z kids if they have children. So stop generalizing. It's pointless. Let's just try to help one another and be understanding instead.

How does a boomer have gen-z kids? Pulling a Charlie Chaplin?

Late to the game to reply, but I was born in the early 60s and had my first child at 34. Millennial child is one of the younger ones in the group , and my Gen Z kids are the older ones in the group.

Obama is a (tail end, technically) Boomer with 2 Gen Z kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomer here who got help exactly once, for two hours, from my Greatest Generation parents. Otherwise, I was completely on my own. They lived 10 minutes away from me. I try very hard to help my Millennial child with the grandchildren and will do the same for my Gen Z kids if they have children. So stop generalizing. It's pointless. Let's just try to help one another and be understanding instead.

How does a boomer have gen-z kids? Pulling a Charlie Chaplin?

Late to the game to reply, but I was born in the early 60s and had my first child at 34. Millennial child is one of the younger ones in the group , and my Gen Z kids are the older ones in the group.

That makes you gen x, sweetie

In most brackets, GenX doesn’t start until 1965 so if they were born in early 60’s they are technically a Boomer.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomer here who got help exactly once, for two hours, from my Greatest Generation parents. Otherwise, I was completely on my own. They lived 10 minutes away from me. I try very hard to help my Millennial child with the grandchildren and will do the same for my Gen Z kids if they have children. So stop generalizing. It's pointless. Let's just try to help one another and be understanding instead.

How does a boomer have gen-z kids? Pulling a Charlie Chaplin?

Late to the game to reply, but I was born in the early 60s and had my first child at 34. Millennial child is one of the younger ones in the group , and my Gen Z kids are the older ones in the group.

That makes you gen x, sweetie

Off course if no other option, would help out regularly if I could but with declining energy, can't sign up for more than occasional few hour backup.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers are too busy and galavanting around on vacations to help their kids and grand kids, sad. Another example of boomer selfishness on top of the wealth taking and focusing younger generations to find their lifestyles, sad.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/millennials-feel-abandoned-parents-available-help-raise-grandkids-busy.amp

Boomer moms worked out of the home more than the previous generation.

I can't wait to go "glavanting around on vacations" once I'm retired.

-signed a Gen xer who raised her children without grandparents help

I plan to take lots of nice vacations AND be a great source of help to my daughters. Why not both? For my in-laws, it’s not lack of time but lack of interest.

PP here. I would be ok with an occasional babysitting, but not regular babysitting.

I am not a kid person. I love my children, and will love any grandchildren I have, but I didn't relish everything about being a parent. I don't want to relive it with my grandchildren. Plus, I will be 60+ when any grandchildren are born. I don't want to be running after kids at that age.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers are too busy and galavanting around on vacations to help their kids and grand kids, sad. Another example of boomer selfishness on top of the wealth taking and focusing younger generations to find their lifestyles, sad.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/millennials-feel-abandoned-parents-available-help-raise-grandkids-busy.amp

Boomer moms worked out of the home more than the previous generation.

I can't wait to go "glavanting around on vacations" once I'm retired.

-signed a Gen xer who raised her children without grandparents help

I plan to take lots of nice vacations AND be a great source of help to my daughters. Why not both? For my in-laws, it’s not lack of time but lack of interest.

My parents just retired this year, and my youngest kid is 10. They would probably have loved to help, but they were in the office all day. (And also a plane ride away, but alas)

Now they’re retired and deserve a few years of nothing! By the time they’re “bored”, kids will be grown.

This plan of grandparents helping went out the window when people stopped retiring at 50/55 and instead wait until 65/70.

Having kids is a personal decision and raising them is a personal responsibility. Its great if you've a village but if not then it-a job still needed to be done.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomer here who got help exactly once, for two hours, from my Greatest Generation parents. Otherwise, I was completely on my own. They lived 10 minutes away from me. I try very hard to help my Millennial child with the grandchildren and will do the same for my Gen Z kids if they have children. So stop generalizing. It's pointless. Let's just try to help one another and be understanding instead.

How does a boomer have gen-z kids? Pulling a Charlie Chaplin?

Late to the game to reply, but I was born in the early 60s and had my first child at 34. Millennial child is one of the younger ones in the group , and my Gen Z kids are the older ones in the group.

Anonymous wrote:Boomers are too busy and galavanting around on vacations to help their kids and grand kids, sad. Another example of boomer selfishness on top of the wealth taking and focusing younger generations to find their lifestyles, sad.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/millennials-feel-abandoned-parents-available-help-raise-grandkids-busy.amp

Boomer moms worked out of the home more than the previous generation.

I can't wait to go "glavanting around on vacations" once I'm retired.

-signed a Gen xer who raised her children without grandparents help

I have no problem with people being angry at their parents for not helping out more. But, seriously, you're going to extend that criticism to a whole generation of people - individuals about whom you know nothing?

In my experience, some people who make that kind of generalization are just hurting that their family member is like that and they want it to be true of a whole generation so they don't have to hurt so much. But maybe, just maybe, it's your parents who suck and not other people's. I'm sorry if that's true. You don't deserve that. No one does.

Anonymous wrote:Boomers are too busy and galavanting around on vacations to help their kids and grand kids, sad. Another example of boomer selfishness on top of the wealth taking and focusing younger generations to find their lifestyles, sad.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/millennials-feel-abandoned-parents-available-help-raise-grandkids-busy.amp

Oh puh-lease, so tired of people generalizing about others based on age, young or old.

Anonymous wrote:DH was incredibly close to his grandmother growing up. She took him on short trips, watched him on weekends, and they spent weeks during the summers on fun adventures.

DH’s parents do absolutely nothing like that.

I’m guessing grandma never worked outside the home and had different responsibilities. Mom probably had a different experience raising her children.