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Baby Boomers Screw Up Their Kids? Suuure They Do

January 6, 2014 by

 The original title of Simon Sinek’s article excerpt on Salon.com? ‘How Baby Boomers Screwed Their Kids And Created Millennial Impatience.’ The subtitle is , ‘Ambitious but easily distracted, Gen Y wants to be good but can’t stick to anything. It’s their parents’ fault.’ He get’s into it a little further in a TED talk where he asks […]

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Baby Boomers And The Kid Car

August 20, 2013 by

So Many Choices Where are the days when you turned sixteen and your daddy handed you the keys to your new ride? The boys got a muscle car and the girls a cute pink convertible. Those days are still around somewhere. Is this what happened when you turned sixteen: “Here, honey, take the keys and […]

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Cursed

August 16, 2013 by

Slate’s culture blog, browbeat, asks of there’s a Good Will Hunting curse on Ben Affleck and Matt Damon? NW Boomer says no, but what about Robin Williams and director Gus Van Sant? Robin and Gus will work it out if there is a curse, but there’s help for Ben and Matt. Writers Sharan Shetty and Holly […]

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JOE QUEENAN’S KIDS AND YOUR KIDS

August 11, 2013 by

When it comes to helping millennials move out on their own, ask Joe Queenan how it’s done. He writes in the Wall Street Journal: “A large part of the problem is that young adults (millennials are 18 to 31 years old) don’t hate their parents the way baby boomers hated theirs; a lot of us […]

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Jason Nazer, The Millennial New Daddy

August 1, 2013 by

Millennials need more help than they got at home. That doesn’t make baby boomers bad parents, but it might feel that way. On forbes.com, Jason Nazar wrote an article called, “20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don’t Get.” What gives him such insight? He’s a thirty four year old entrepreneur. Jason is no slacker. The company he started and […]

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Baby Boomers vs Millennials

July 26, 2013 by

Do we baby boomers have pity on younger generations? Are their problems bigger than the obstacles we faced and continue to face? Katerina Rosen thinks so in her Huffington Post article, “Millennial Problems: 7 Issues Boomers Didn’t Deal With.” Issues? Obstacles? Problems? And only seven? We came out of a social upheaval called the Cultural Revolution […]

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