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Garrett's avatar

Who’s this “we”?

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Turd_Ferguson's avatar

As a whole.. GenX is responsible for "my kids are my best friends, and I respect them," which screwed up 2 generations at a phenomenally increased rate.

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Garrett's avatar

If you say so. I never witnessed this within my peer group.

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Chris D's avatar

I 100% disagree with this comment. It’s the boomers that had that attitude of wanting to be their kid’s best friends AND ditching the three R’s in school

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

So, how do you come up with your astute observations? Do you realize how silly your argument sounds? Surely you have better things to do than cook up some dumbass theory on what’s wrong with a group of diverse individuals. Go back to the basement

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Turd_Ferguson's avatar

You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but as a GenX raised by Boomers, I would love to see how this scenario would play out in court or TV today....

Kid does stupid thing at neighbors house up the street, neighbor grabs kid by the ear smacks him on the ass, or upside the head and scolds him for being a dumbass. Kid NEVER tells his parents because he knows damn well he's going to get a whacking again, and likely grounded for a week without TV.... Yeah... play that story out line by line today, or any time in the past 25 years and tell me the results.

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madaboutmd's avatar

Absolutely true. I was the program director of two child care/early childhood programs from 1989-2007. They were both in wealthy Chicago north shore suburbs. The stories I could tell!

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Turd_Ferguson's avatar

My Best friend of 47 years ran 5 of them in the DC area.... I know probably most of what you'd say....

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