If GenX parents aversion to discipline caused them to free their kids from the consequences of their choices, this is something we can change (I hope!) We just have to accept reality lol. Good luck to us all in 2024. Especially the kids!
I am utterly baffled by how GenXers, who grew up being latchkey kids with so much freedom, who delight in that and are proud of their independence and problem-solving skills, became helicopter parents who raised the most coddled and weak generation. What happened? Why didn't GenXers value the very thing that made them strong and resilient in their kids?
Bridget, if you come around to read this: After your talk with Abigail, do you think the reason why GenX parents are so over-managing their kids because we GenXers never let go of our own trait of fixing problems? In other words, instead of giving our kids the same experience of freedom to take risks and solve our own problems that we had and are so proud of, we're now diving head first into solving their problems too because that's just what we do?
Are we like the king who's still occupying the throne, so his son the prince cannot ascend because the king is still in his prime and nowhere near done yet?
I don't have kids BTW. I say "our kids" meaning kids of our generation.
I'm enjoying much of Schrier is talking about with her recent interviews. She comes at ideas differently and considers solutions that don't necessarily seem obvious but end up becoming it in hindsight.
If GenX parents aversion to discipline caused them to free their kids from the consequences of their choices, this is something we can change (I hope!) We just have to accept reality lol. Good luck to us all in 2024. Especially the kids!
I am utterly baffled by how GenXers, who grew up being latchkey kids with so much freedom, who delight in that and are proud of their independence and problem-solving skills, became helicopter parents who raised the most coddled and weak generation. What happened? Why didn't GenXers value the very thing that made them strong and resilient in their kids?
Bridget, if you come around to read this: After your talk with Abigail, do you think the reason why GenX parents are so over-managing their kids because we GenXers never let go of our own trait of fixing problems? In other words, instead of giving our kids the same experience of freedom to take risks and solve our own problems that we had and are so proud of, we're now diving head first into solving their problems too because that's just what we do?
Are we like the king who's still occupying the throne, so his son the prince cannot ascend because the king is still in his prime and nowhere near done yet?
I don't have kids BTW. I say "our kids" meaning kids of our generation.
I'm enjoying much of Schrier is talking about with her recent interviews. She comes at ideas differently and considers solutions that don't necessarily seem obvious but end up becoming it in hindsight.