12-03-2016, 10:38 PM
(12-02-2016, 01:42 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(12-02-2016, 11:19 AM)MillennialJim Wrote:(11-28-2016, 09:24 AM)tg63 Wrote: Unless I'm mistaken S&H defined the start of a new generation as 3-4 years before the onset of a new turning. So if we go with 2008 as the start of the 4T as is generally accepted (others posit 2005 or even 2001, but your mileage may vary), that would make the start of the homelander generation as 2004-5. Seems to fit intuitively for me.
This is my belief as well.
There were some good indications that the 2003-2005 cohorts were changing in terms of parenting trends and other things we look for in rearing a different generation. Preceding generations drive reactions to world events, which drives parenting styles, which in turn creates a new generation that differs from the past. I'm a 1982 cohort. I have a 2 year old daughter. No one who looks at how children are raised today can say that the temperament of parenting and current parenting trends are similar to how kids were raised in the 80's and 90's. IMO a break began to occur in the early 2000's, to more protective styles of parenting consistent with an adaptive generation.
Good to see another millenial posting. Willing to say where you are from?
While I agree that parenting has gotten overprotective - my kids are 8, 6, and 4 - I'm not sure how sudden it was. Nor am I certain that the protective trends are definitive in anything other than retrospect; the GIs were the people who fought in WWII and thereafter got automatic respect therefor. The Silents were the ones who had no war stories of their own to tell. I think that ultimately, the breakpoint between Millenial and Quiet will similarly be whether they participate in the crisis war this time around.
Thanks - I think life and politics would be much easier if everybody else just let us take over. My home base is Wisconsin, but I travel cross country a lot.
I agree with you that there was no one moment when parenting trends just changed... I did start noticing it in the 2nd Bush term, though, especially with little kids. I just can't join the hypothesizing that kids born in the late aughts or early 2010s are still Millennials. In addition to all of the objective reasoning behind my reaction, it just feels wrong. The kids of the 2010s ain't us. I don't especially think the kids of the mid-2000's (10 year olds and such today) are us, either.
Another marker may be the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. If you never knew life before the smartphone era, you ain't a millennial.