The Mature generation and Baby Boomers
 

This article gives the authors summary of six generations now living in this country.

Many of us who were born before 1945 were imprinted by parents who survived the depression and lived through the second world war. Those born past 1945, called Baby Boomers will continue to have ten thousand a day retiring for the next thirteen years.

See what you think about this article; I don't think anything can really catch or illustrate the highly individual people it is my pleasure to know who live here in The Villages. I am learning that WHERE we grew up also brands us in many ways.

What say you?
The Six Living Generations In America

"With the advent of computers and web based learning, children leave behind toys at younger and younger age. It’s called KGOY-kids growing older younger, and many companies have suffered because of it, most recognizable is Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls. In the 1990’s the average age of a child in their target market was 10 years old, and in 2000 it dropped to 3 years old. As children reach the age of four and five, old enough to play on the computer, they become less interested in toys and begin to desire electronics such as cell phones and video games."

I don't know how to react. Playing pretend, using you imagination, dolls, puppets, and building legos was big in my house. They don't mention playing sports. I suppose you use your imagination, learn and solve problems using technology. I have to mull this over.

It nailed it!

Yes that article pretty much says it all. I was born "just" before the "boomers"...I can relate to both 'generations'. My parents were born as The Greatest Generation and I certainly have their values for sure.

Looks like cell phones have become "the mind control helmets" depicted in the Buck Rogers serial starring Buster Crabbe--total focus and oblivious to the outside world around them

Even though only a couple of years can separate the Mature /Silent generation from the Baby Boomer generation there is a pretty noticeable difference between the generations. Not bad or good, just noticeable.

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Most baby boomers are spoiled little brats. Hence the name baby boomers.. now, some think they are bad? Nothing compared to baby boomers kids/kids which are twice as spoiled, which are the ultimate do Nothing kids except live at home and play on the cell phone or on the computer violent video games which alter the brain from reality. Small portions are so far gone they want to be popular and bring gun to school and make name for their themselves with they're pathetic altered brain, which was influenced by TV, movie theater, and video games. Now, you just wait if they can produce and they're kids not raised by grandparents or the state, you haven't seen nothing yet.

The baby boomers...I was born in 1942 ahead of them by a few years. I feel much more an "Ike" - silent generation - and recall as a college senior when incoming freshmen were pot smokers. Everything really changed after around 1965 which was the peak SAT score year. It went downhill thereafter in many, many ways, the dumbing down of school curricula, cultural disintegration, debasement of ethics and morality and much, much more.

I have a long time friend in my neighborhood who is now 86 years old. He grew up during the depression, while growing up along with his brother spent several years in an orphanage until his father took him home after regaining the financial ability to do so. He worked hard his whole life and owned a successful local retail business. He has three children now in their early to mid sixties. HE IS PAYING THE MORTGAGES FOR TWO OF THEM, AGED 65 AND 64!...as they are unable (unwilling?) to do so. One has a bachelors degree from Stanford which my friend no doubt paid for!

Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way.

Kids!
I don't know what's wrong with these kids today
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs
Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy loaf-
Ers!

And while we're on the subject
Kids!
You can talk and talk till your face is blue
Kids!
But they still do just what they want to do
Why can't they be like we were
Perfect in every way?
What's the matter with kids today?

[MAE]
Kids!
I've tried to raise you the best I could
Kids!
All the things I've done were for your own good
Kids!
Can't you once appreciated how I've sacrificed
Working, slaving, scrimping, saving pennies?
And livin' with your father
Kids!
No one knows the burden I've had to bear
(And in my condition!)
Kids!
I'm a poor, sick woman, and does he care?
Ha! Go on, go on, and kill me
That's what it's coming to
When a mother has kids like you

:shrug: Painting my house soon..... where could I buy a "Broad Brush" like the one you use?;)


:read: paint with a broad brush = To describe a class of objects or a kind of phenomenon in general terms, without specific details and without attention to individual variations. :icon_bored:

Yes I'm good with brush? Can even spot them 110 plus golfers:pepper2:

As tomwed says.......Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way.

I sense many may feel whatever generation they are from was the best. Food for thought - the baby boomers were raised by the silent mature generation. Thus as many believe your value system is a product your environment (like area of country as only one of many attributes) is not your value system a product of your parents. So if you are one to believe each generation has got worse than the previous generation don't they only have themselves to blame ? For the record I don't prescribe to the thought that one generation is better than or worse than another. There is good and bad in every generation.

so what you're say every parent is to blame from Adam and Eve.

:agree: Thank you.

good post

Seems to be the thing today in this country.

Label them, put them in a box, then attack them as a group, whether by age (as here), race, religion, politics, ethnic background.

Life is simple if you do that. You dont have to waste time even learning anything.

Very interesting article -- definitely food for thought.

I see the positive and attributes in every generation. My father is part of the silent generation, born early in the Great Depression. He went to work on his family's farm when his older brothers went to fight in WWII. Marriage was for life. My mom quit working her paying job 3 months after she got married. No way was that the life for me!

I am boomer along with my 2 sisters. I don't think we were "spoiled,", but we did not want for material things within reason. Our parents were more frugal than we are. My father sees things in black and white; I tend to see things in shades of grey.

I am definitely more tolerant than my father; in today's workforce, you'd better learn to get along with everyone if you want to keep your job. I see even greater tolerance in my nieces who are millennials.

My nieces don't really remember a world without computers, but I learned to type on a manual typewriter in high school in the 1970's. Technology has certainly sped up the pace of change, especially in the past 30 years. Remember the VCR, dial-up modem and cell phones the size of bricks?

Excellent post
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No I am actually saying no one is to blame. Time stands still for no one. Generations values in part are an adaptation to changing times in my opinion. Times have never changed as quickly as in the last century.

I so agree.

So true.

The link was a very unfair attempt to pigeon hole everyone.

I know young people who have a better work ethic than any of us elders. I also know elders who are very immature and lazy.

My point always is.....you cannot say ALL about any age, class, etc. the work is to get to KNOW of what or WHO you feel the need to judge.

And that could have been written...in the 1700's. :oops:


I crack up (and pity) those people who think they are superior to others, simply because they were born a couple of years prior...to made up names for a particular 'generation.' :ohdear:

Yep. :ohdear:

I think that being respectful to others whether they are older OR younger is the key. Most of us Villagers have friends in a wide age span. Most people pick others to be around because they are fun, and nice and comfortable, and who have similar interests, and don't try to avoid others in any way just because of age, be it younger or older.

Yep.

I have friends here from their late 40's...to their mid 80's.

What I don't have, are any friends who are bullies, passive-aggressive, bigoted, racist or otherwise nasty to others...as life is too short for that.

I don't think anything has changed at all, we just hear about it more. When I was in high school if a girl got pregnant they said she left to go into the convent it wasn't posted on FB. Things were covered up and not talked about. My unmarried uncle had a best friend until he died. Rape was just not mentioned it was just a misunderstanding. Now the media just jumps on everything and disects it ad nauseum. Bad behavior dates back to Adam and Eve.

And their incestuous offspring.

Nothing really new...under this sun. :shrug:

Quoted from the link and says it much better than I could:

"This is only a guideline, remember that everyone is different and not everyone fits into this analysis, but for the most part you can generalize their behavior."

I have said just what you have about pigeon-holing many times on this very forum. Do the words "old people" and "drivers" and "entitled" come to mind?

Believe it or not, every next generation is "hell-bound" according to the previous and or current one. Always has been and always will be. There is something good and something bad about every generation and has been for eons; this practice will endure far longer than we will.

Meanwhile, let's just relax and try to get along. Villagers have not all come from the same place nor from the same generation. We all have opinions and that is great! If not, how dull and boring would our lives both past and present be!!

"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
(From a sermon preached by Peter the Hermit in A.D. 1274)

The article and for that matter the idea of labeling "generation" borders absurdity. First what wizzard got to tie a generation to a historical event ? If it were I - I would pick a positive one not a negative one like war. Second take the mature / silent generation 1927 - 1945 - does that mean if you were born in 1946 you value system is totally different ? I don't buy into the "generation thing". I feel it is a constant continuum adapting to the times. I remember my Dad born 1924 bucking his "generation " when teaching me to question whatever I have been told to make sure it passes a test of reasonableness. Not to be a radical but don't except blind faith (ah another subject). I could watch him change with the times as he raised me. A must was we be at the dinner table at 6 PM - no excuses. We will converse. One night we would have a conversation about you are young and should take risks (within the reasonableness clause). What do you have to lose ? The other 6 nights we got the save for a rainy day speech. I remember the depression" That was enough to make us pee our pants. That limited the risks in our mind to the nickle slots. So which "generation did my Dad belong to?

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Amen!

Dead on! :thumbup:

It is NEVER kind to exclude someone because of age. It is not pleasant to be dismissed summarily because of age.

There is no way any of us can avoid getting older, unless we die.

And none of us can get any younger.

I think most of us can read the unspoken attitude of most posters.

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Ditto! :thumbup:

I think what has changed in the past several decades has been the cultural change from all about US to all about ME. This has been aided by the advancement in technology which allows people the ability to spend hours focusing on the their own narcissistic interests without distraction from the world and people around them. Smart Phone?!!

I wish my name was Peter the Hermit. It's a fun name.

Nah, Alexander the Great is a fun name.

WE......POSTERS are the only thing that has changed. We got older.

I add this link from BBC in Oct discussing this issue where we generalize so much, ESPECIALLY in the USA.

BBC - Capital - What everyone gets wrong about 'millennial snowflakes'

Did you realize that children living with their parents peaked in the 1940's, and is NOT a phenom of the current age ?

The author ends this with this.....

"So basically, millennials are the same as other generations were at their age. Only a little different. More global, maybe. More diverse. More progressive. Definitely poorer. But a unique group of monsters, the entitled wrath of which the world has ever seen before? I’m not so sure."

This is not a serious study but simple an observation that I agree with. To make ourselves feel good, we tend to make any other generation the bad guys, the worst ever.

Changes happen and we are quick to judge, but somehow we always are the best ever and the young folks are the worst. THAT does not seem to change ever.

Personally, I think it would be great if we stopped judging based on the dumbest things and started listening to each other, helping each other, and learning from each other