A synopsis of the Gens; Greatest through Alpha
An interesting read.
https://www.parents.com/parenting/better-parenting/style/generation-name...
Gen Alpha (2010-2024): Like the generations that came before them, every passing year will shape the cultural perception of who they are. In the meantime, parents get the pride and honor to help guide them to making the best choices -possible.
Hmmm. Is this even a thing these days? It certainly seems to be an increasingly rare behavior - making the best choices possible.
Here is to Gen Beta! May they be mutants who revert back to the Greatness of their GGGPs+/-.
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I have to be honest, my DD
I have to be honest, my DD and her peers (all gen alpha) are the best people I know. There are a few brats mixed in, of course, but in general they are incredibly thoughtful, respectful, conscientious, hard workers, smart, and kind. Their millennial parents are also some of the best people I know.
I don't know that society's problems really stem from specific generations, seems more likely they originate from perpetual cycles and cultures within specific family groups. Just my opinion.
I am generation X. Between
I am generation X. Between the 2 of us, DH and I have Millennials, Gen Z and Gen A.
I STRONGLY prefer Gen A. OSD is a Millenial, she is a whiny, politically correct, wimpy baby. Gen Z is an anxious, whiny mess. (YSD is Z as are 2 of my bios)
Gen A has a "everything is bullsh*t" and "f#ck it," "Live and let live," "I'll do it myself" attitude which melds nicely with my Gen X sensibilites. My youngest bio is Gen A.
It is good to hear that Gen Alpha may be turning the ship.
At 14 at the oldest, they have time to avoid and overcome much of the spe-cialness bred into so many millennials. Though it is not surprising that with parents like you, Felicity0224 and Elea, that the outcome for your Alphas is looking good.
Winning the parent lottery is a massive advantage. Your Alphas definitely won the mom half of the lottery.
My cusp Boomer/Xer birth year puts me in a blend of Boomer and Xer. I was with the being held accountable Boomers and be home when the streetlights come on Xer kids. My parents are on the younger side of the Silent generation and married young (19&17) and had me young (19&21). Mom, dad, and me pretty much grew up together. Much like DW and my SS did. She had SS-32 at 16.
On top of being a last year Boomer who has a strong case of Xer cusp confusion I also have a major Peter Pan complex so.... My bride occasionally promotes me to 13 from 12. Which makes me ... an ALPHA!!!
Woo Hoo!
Chef is Gen X
And I am a later boomer. Chef had elderly parents of the Greatest Generation and although they were too exhausted to discipline him, he still has their work ethic
Late boomers rock!!!
My parents are Silent Gen. I am blessed to have known all of my GPs and two of my GGMs.
My parents
Are also Silent Gen. Father still alive at 90.
My dad just made 95..... they
My dad just made 95..... they made them tough!
What amazing times our parents have lived.
My dad is 82 and mom will be 80 on the 26th.
Women in mom's family have all made it to 90+. Dad is the moden version of Jack LaLanne. They had me at 21 and 19 so I will likely be the only resident in the retirement home with a chore list assigned by their parents.
My kid will likely suffer the same retirement home parent assigned chore list fate. His mom had him when she was 16.
Please share some of your dad's adventures. Those stories are so important to know. My dad publishes a Blurb weekely, has kept journals for decades, and has written several stories for all of the GKs. All of the stories are about experiences he and mom had in the year preceeding Christmas. As the GKs arrived the stories become focused on the adventures mom, dad, and their GKs had that year. My eldest nephew scanned all of the stories when we were home for TG recently then asked AI to do a cover illustration for the first book. It is amazing. So now the GKs are all collaborating on publishing illustrated versions of dad's children's stories and have plans to do the same with dad's Blurps and journals of all of the adventures he and mom have lived.
Always been fascinated by the
Always been fascinated by the different generations. I am a Gen Z with Boomer and Silent Gen parents, so I'm very much old-fashioned at heart
But I like to think I have some new-age tendencies as well. A good balance! It's funny, I typically avoid people in my generation. I just don't relate to them that much.
I put the whole characteristics of all of the Gen designations
I put the whole characteristics of all of the Gen designations in the Pseudo Science box. Though it is interesting to look at it all. Kinda like reading a horoscope.
We are all evolutions of your parents, and their parents, etc.... and at some level a compilation of their life experiences with some of our own stuff added. Our kids, and their kids, and so on.... will be the continuum of that whole messy amazing progression.
It does get back to
How you are raised in the end.
Kids today have information
Overload. I remember being 14.. We had network news, newspapers. That was it. Our big thing was music. ''''Radio'''' AM. meeting at the library, for the Encyclopedia. To do school work, and meet the opposite sex.
Today with the internet. No one needs to leave there home.