will baby boomers ever grow up?

Question

I'm starting to doubt it. I'm a boomer and in many ways pretty childish.

Answer 1

What's so good about growing up?

I was born at the end of the Baby Boom generation, and I can handle my life as an adult, but I still play games, I like to eat at McDonalds for the same reasons that I did 30 years ago. I still watch what I think is cool on television. I watch more documentaries nowadays because I am interested in the time and events. To me the Vietnam was barely a blur. Now I understand it much better. However, I still like to watch "Boston Legal" and "My Name is Earl" because they are funny.

I hope the child in me never goes completely away. Yes, my adult roles demand more time when he can't play, but I do let him out to play when I can and he hasn't changed all that much.

I pay my bills on time and in full, and my budget is tight. It doesn't matter the amount it only matters that I am handling it like an adult, most baby boomers handler their finances the same way.

I remember seeing the toys when I was a kid and the toys when I was a young adult and the toys that I see now. Frankly, I envy some of the kids that get to play with the new toys, and how much is devoted to entertaining them. When I was a kid the best music player I had was a cassette player, until I upgraded to my 8 Track Stereo. Now days the kids get iPods where they can take their music anywhere, and they don't have to listen to the dull songs on the album, they take only the tunes they want to hear. When I was a teenager and missed a movie in the theater I had to wait years for it to come out on TV. Now days I can watch it in only a few months and buy the DVD soon after. When I was a young adult the video games were bulky with blocks that you really had to stretch your imagination to see them as what they represent. Now days it is hard to tell what is a real scene or what is a well-done video game scene.

When my parents were children they listened to their music on records and had a similar range of what was available as I did. They couldn't carry those songs around with time any more than I could. Oh, sure you could have gotten an expensive portable that never played as well as a real stereo system did, but neither they or we could wear a stereo player on our belt that weighed only a few ounces and could carry stacks and stacks of songs. When my Grandparents were young if they missed a movie in the movie theaters then they just missed it, when my parents were kids they still had to wait to see those movies out of the theater like I did and they didn't get the chance to own them and play them anytime they wanted to.

In short the toys now says are better than the toys that any other generation had, the toys of today are more supplicated so it takes and older person to get the most out to them. So it is very hard to not play. So it is no wonder that the baby boomers still want to play and envy all the new toys that modern children have.

What the baby boomers aren't are the Me Generation, the Pepsi Generation, or the X Generation. Baby boomers actually get involved in razing their children, even when we are rich. We don't ignore our children and we don't tolerate the kind of behavior that is common in school today. The ancient Egyptians would not have tolerated school children walking on their desks in the middle of class while the teacher was trying to teach, and no other generation would either until today. That's because the current young generation of parents were raised by absent parents and don't know how to raise their children.

Children in past generations may have been spanked, but the spanking always meant more than pain, it meant that you shouldn't do that. To today's children a spanking would be abuse and they could get their parents charged with a crime, any discipline or punishment is foreign to them.

I am not worried about the baby boomers or the greatest generation, they can handle the load and are. I am worried about the last two generations. The only thing the Me generation is capable of handling, or wants to, is themselves, and because of that the succeeding generations are lost.

I am not saying that we should start spanking or children, once I became 7 may parents never hit or spanked me again. They were there in my life and important, so I didn't want to disappoint them. The me generation didn't care as much about their children and let them run wild, or gave them indifferent care. The latest generation doesn’t know how to raise their kids because of this poor example. This explains why in the last decade or so our public schools have gone to pot and are fled from by not just the rich, but by anyone who can afford to. This explains while the homeless population has risen so much. I am not talking about those who don't care or who can't make it for some reasons. I am talking about those that could make it, that want to make it, and are trying real hard to make it. Fewer people care about them, or at least fewer of our young.

If you are worried that the baby boomers are childish then the me generation are infantile by comparison.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

by grow up i hope you mean care about things like the environment, how much money they're sucking out of us in social security and how playing class games and judging people on what ever random social standard they have is retarded.
baby boomers won't every change, theres a chance they could be educated but it's like trying to teach them how to use a computer. too much of a pain so we just do it for them. and as we keep doing it for them they keep acting like children.
they talk about how they want to raise there kids right meanwhile they do all these things (driving suvs and BMWs throwing cfc's into the air) that will make it hard for their children and grandchildren to live. (after this huge house buying/selling mortgage fad how can i possibly afford a house or move far far away.)

Answer 4

Why grow up? Growing up is boring. I know too many grown ups already. I'll stay a "kid" a little bit longer, thanks. Not a boomer, a Gen-Xer, but hey, I've a mortage and a marriage and a kid on the way(adoption) and I still feel/dress/act(in many ways) like a kid. Age is a number. I'd rather go to a rock show and dance my *** off than sit around and watch "American Idol" on tv.

Answer 5

No they won't, they are the first cool generation!!