To all the kids born in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's.

[Kuciwalker]

Let's see... um... yah... you were born under the sign of the sun's 19XXth revolution around the earth thingy...

A bit behind the times, are we?

[Aeson]

Wow Kuci, you really are dense aren't ya?

[Kuciwalker]

Your post was an anachronism.

[Aeson]

No, my post wasn't. Try again.

[Ecthy]

Aeson was talking about revolutions since the birth of Christ

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by MRT144
why did people born in these decades refuse to raise their children the way they were raised?

That was my first thought: "To all the kids born in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's: your parents knew how to raise kids; you don't."

Interesting corollary fact: I'm reading Robert Putnam's study of declining community involvement, Bowling Alone, and he convincingly demonstrates that the generation born between 1910-1940 has shown the greatest propensisty for civic involvement, while their kids -- the kids born in the 40's, 50's, and early 60's -- have shown the least, less so even than Gens X and Y.

Boomers: not just crappy parents; crappy citizens, too!

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Aeson was talking about revolutions since the birth of Christ

Kuci is already on board... you're just redundant. If you want to continue to receive feedback, just pretend my posts to Kuci (if he continues) are directed at you. Later.

[Drake Tungsten]

Boomers: not just crappy parents; crappy citizens, too!

QFT

[chequita guevara]

[SIZE=1]The point of the article was merely to point out how people grew up in the past when kids were not wrapped in cotton wool, and there was more freedom, and less interference in the minutiae of people's lives.

Actually, the point of the article was "KIDS THESE DAYS!!!" As both Ming and -Jrabbit pointed out, it's simply one generation slamming another. Seen it before, we'll see it again. In 20 years, these kids will be saying things about how coddled the next generation is.

The article is also rather inaccurate and leaves out a lot of stuff. Q³'s mistake was in trying to take seriously what was obviously not serious.

Truthful, most kids in the Western world are more likely to survive to adulthood than previous generations . . . unless you're a minority in the U.S., for whom child mortality has edged up in the past decade. Maybe coddling our kids isn't so bad after all.

[SlowwHand]

Brats. Generation of rap, hip hop and skunk beer.

[-Jrabbit]

...says the man whose forum name glorifies a heroin freak.

...j/k Sloww...

[MRT144]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Brats. Generation of rap, hip hop and skunk beer.

i agree, we need to ban all this guitar music too and get benny goodman back into the swing of things.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The article is also rather inaccurate and leaves out a lot of stuff. Q³'s mistake was in trying to take seriously what was obviously not serious.

I didn't take it that seriously.

After all, it was written by an old person, and therefore not very intelligable, and very far from being correct.

[Emetri]

Originally posted by Q Cubed

After all, it was written by an old person, and therefore not very intelligable, and very far from being correct.

Yeah, don't you just hate that?

[SlowwHand]

Who the Hell are you?