Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Xers were Breakfast Club, Saint Elmo's Fire, Risky Business, Ferris Bueller (forgive the spelling), Pretty in Pink....

Older Xers were.

Middle Xers were Reality Bites.
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Younger Xers were Clueless (the movie, not the adjective!).

I'm one of the in-betweens, born in 80, we don't fit with a lot of the Reality Bites part of what people think when they think Gen X but we also didn't have facebook until after college.

You are Hootie and the Blowfish generation. I am sorry to say, but you got it bad. Belong nowhere, had bad music, growing up became a nightmare filled with activities and really nothing culture good came out of late 90s. Sorry. Now, I was born in 70 and I had it good. Running around, nobody made me read before school! Taking public transportation everywhere, partying till 5am even when 16, not bad stuff, just dancing and having fun. I feel so sad for my kids who now as teens have none of that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Xers were Breakfast Club, Saint Elmo's Fire, Risky Business, Ferris Bueller (forgive the spelling), Pretty in Pink....

Older Xers were.

Middle Xers were Reality Bites.

Younger Xers were Clueless (the movie, not the adjective!).

I'm one of the in-betweens, born in 80, we don't fit with a lot of the Reality Bites part of what people think when they think Gen X but we also didn't have facebook until after college.

Anonymous wrote:Latch key kids, we were responsible, still got spanked when I talked back, and wasn't treated as a "special snowflake" nor had helicopter parents. I think I turned out ok.

Yup, we had it good.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because we are perfect.

Hardly.

You are the ones responsible for the start of this over the top helicopter stlyle parenting that has been on the rise the last 10 years.

You are the ones who want a law and a ban on everything under the sun.

Future generations are going to love you.

Well, they do seem to like flexible work schedules and being able to work from home.

Holy Misplaced Historical Perspective. 10 years, lady? Try 25. The phrase was coined in 1990, and the parenting has its roots in the 1980s. As a Gen Xer, I say you are completely wrong that it is millennial fostering this type of parent. But stay clueless. Your biases and beliefs are more important than the truth, of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-the-helicopter-parent-2015-7
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/30/health/the-80s-latchkey-kid-helicopter-parent/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because we are perfect.

Hardly.

You are the ones responsible for the start of this over the top helicopter stlyle parenting that has been on the rise the last 10 years.

You are the ones who want a law and a ban on everything under the sun.

Future generations are going to love you.

Well, they do seem to like flexible work schedules and being able to work from home.