Getting personal here. What Generation are you?

[AustinTink]

we’d all just roll our eyes & be like “Whatever.”

That’s me everyday about most things.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

Last year of the ban boom… 1964

 

[moonshadow]

Boomer 1959 with a millennial daughter.

 

[A Squared]

The coolest generation - Gen X !!
Do not tell me that Ghostbusters is 40 years old, it cant be!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I believe I am X.

 

[The Mayor]

Boomer here (1954) the baby sibling of five. Son (1982) and daughter (1984). Not sure if that makes them Gen X??? Four grandkids 6, 5, 5 and 3.

 

[livih99]

I've never heard this term. Interesting.

I don't think it's an official term or anything just something people my age throw around

 

[Minnesota!]

Proudly Gen X

 

[dvcgirl67]

What's the stereotype? Gen X'ers hates the Baby Boomers for creating all the world's problems and hates the Millennials because they are too lazy to do anything about it? Something like that? GUILTY Gen X'er here.

Ha, yes, we're that. We're also the first true "latch key" generation. Many of us may have started with Mom at home, but at some point she headed out into the workforce....and somewhere along the line all of the parents decided that their pre-teen/teen kids were fine at home for several hours a day without supervision....lol. DH and I both experienced this in our homes.

So we're known as the "independent" generation. Gen X-ers had to figure it out on our own. And so that's why we're so likely to roll our eyes at the other generations....the boomers were out there consuming everything.....their kids (the millennials) were always whining about something. Gen X is over in the corner rolling our collective eyes at them .

All generalizations folks....don't get mad at me .

 

[jo-jo]

Ha, yes, we're that. We're also the first true "latch key" generation. Many of us may have started with Mom at home, but at some point she headed out into the workforce....and somewhere along the line all of the parents decided that their pre-teen/teen kids were fine at home for several hours a day without supervision....lol. DH and I both experienced this in our homes.

So we're known as the "independent" generation. Gen X-ers had to figure it out on our own. And so that's why we're so likely to roll our eyes at the other generations....the boomers were out there consuming everything.....their kids (the millennials) were always whining about something. Gen X is over in the corner rolling our collective eyes at them .

All generalizations folks....don't get mad at me .

Just wondering out loud here.....you speak of latch key kids. I wonder what it was like during WW II, when so many women went to work with men overseas. What did the kids do? Anyone know?

 

[dvcgirl67]

Just wondering out loud here.....you speak of latch key kids. I wonder what it was like during WW II, when so many women went to work with men overseas. What did the kids do? Anyone know?

Good question!! I remember reading an article about this several years back. Uncle Sam actually watched "Rosie the Riveter's" children. War-related government grants were used to establish "emergency nursery schools" in areas of the country where we had defense industrial plants. So, tax dollars were used to allow new working Moms to go to work and not worry about their children. Nice concept eh?

 

[AppleDumpling]

I was born near the end of the baby boom, and DS was born at the beginning of Gen Z. So we span 4 generations in one.

 

[Moliphino]

Boomer here (1954) the baby sibling of five. Son (1982) and daughter (1984). Not sure if that makes them Gen X??? Four grandkids 6, 5, 5 and 3.

Millennials.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Millennial checking in!

 

[Aladora]

Exactly!! <3

We’re the Reality Bites generation… the snarky slackers.

And maybe because we’re also the forgotten generation or because there’s, relatively speaking, not a lot of us, nobody ever hates on the Gen-X-ers or blames us for stuff like they do Boomers or Millennials.

Or, even if they did, we’d all just roll our eyes & be like “Whatever.”

We are absolutely the forgotten generation, see example below!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

My husband and I are both Millennials with Boomer parents of varying ages.

My sister is a Millennial, one of my husband's sisters is a Millennial and the other is a Gen Z but only by a year.

 

[DeeBee3]

We are absolutely a forgotten generation, see example below!

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I like how this graphic completely misses a group of people!

 

[Chili327]

I like how this graphic completely misses a group of people!

That was the point.

 

[Southernmiss]

Dh and I are X

1 millennial kid

3 gen z kids

 

[Skippy918]

Younger Gen X. I classify myself as a Xennial
my kids are Gen Z and Gen alpha. I refer to them as the Minecraft generation because it seems like everyone in their age groups has played that game for many years.