papercup posted...
Also I will say, while Gen Z is pretty awful, at least theyre not making iPad kids. Thats entirely millennials doing.
Parenting is kind of a fresh concept when you think about it. Not "keeping a child alive for 18 years" but
parenting.
HUGE generalizations incoming:
Gen Z got screwed over because millenials were largely spoiled and lived care free lives, they did not pick up on many practical skills as a result. Their Gen X parents did this because they valued individuality and freedom after being raised (and screwed over) by a boomer generation that was largely about discipline and order, since they were raised by parents who knew about untold horrors of war and disease, and so they were focused on simply getting by in life.
The parents of boomers (who I am sure also have a generational title) were literally living in an era where people were still cranking out huge families because children still died in infancy and childhood in frequent occasion, or you simply needed that many children to run the farm, woodshop, butcher, etc; Childhood was survival to these people.
The boomers were the first generation for centuries and centuries to see an incredibly massive shift in how they viewed and treated their own children, nothing like that had ever been seen before, at least not in America. We're still seeing the effects of it today as a result and honestly, as much as I do like to riff on Gen Z, I feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for the boomers and everyone since too, this is all new stuff, nobody really knows what they're doing.