09-27-2016, 12:49 PM
(09-27-2016, 11:18 AM)The Wonkette Wrote:(09-27-2016, 09:35 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-26-2016, 11:11 AM)The Wonkette Wrote:(09-26-2016, 12:22 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Trailing edge boomer, born 1960.
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Got married, interesting time as a software contractor through two boom and bust cycles, had three wonderful Quiet generation kids. Currently some credit card debt, but lots of equity in reserve in the house I'd bought in 1990, so barring a generational crisis, I'll survive financially.
So basically, adulthood has been pretty much what I envisioned - I get to make my own decisions, and get to live with the consequences of those decisions. I would never go back to being a child.
Interesting post, and I agree with you -- childhood sucked.
Question -- what is a "quiet generation" kid? Someone born in the aughts? If so, they should be in or approaching the dreaded middle school years. Chin up, you'll survive.
"Quiet generation" is how I refer to postmillenials. "Homelander" assumes the fourth turning started with and would be primarily shaped by 9/11, and I'm unconvinced that's accurate. My kids were born in 2008, 2010, and 2012.
Ah, you're an older Dad.They are young and definitely new adaptives.
Yes. And my style is more appropriate for bringing up millenials, which would have been accepted a few years ago but sees a lot of resistance now - though actually, that's okay since I do want my kids to get used to figuring out conclusions for themselves, if not to get coddled so much they don't have to actually do anything.
I just hope my kids grow up in a situation more like my Silent generation dad's, which involved not having to fight in WWII and being safe at home, and less like my Silent generation mom's, which involved being a refugee from the Japanese and then the Communists for essentially her entire childhood and having a substantial risk of not surviving.