Common Mistakes People Make with Generational Theory

[JasonBlack]

Another one: I think there is a tendency to view Adaptives as more mousy than is often the case. The earlier waves of adaptive generations typically had much harder upbringings than their parents and grandparents, and while overprotection of children is the most common human impulse during eras of crisis, the poverty, social fragmentation and institutional decay brought about by the prior two turnings mean this isn't always possible, and that many children needed to be tough, resourceful and grow up unnaturally fast.