13 Reasons Why Baby Boomers Are The Toughest Generation
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- 13 Reasons Why Baby Boomers Are The Toughest Generation
Explore the resilience and toughness of the Baby Boomer generation in our video, "13 Reasons Why Baby Boomers Are The Toughest Generation." Discover the 13 factors, from their upbringing to experiences in adulthood, that shaped their character and made them resilient. Join us as we delve into the unique qualities that define this generation.
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For boomers and senior citizens, the current market and economy are unnecessarily harder. I'm used to simply purchasing and holding assets, which doesn't seem applicable to the current volatile market, and inflation is catching up with my portfolio. My biggest concern is whether I'll survive after retirement.
Just buy and invest in Gold or other reliable stock , the government has failed us and we cant keep living like this.
Yes, gold is a great investment and a good bet against the devaluating dollar, been holding some for awhile now, I’m grateful my adviser’s moment by moment changes in the market are lightening quick, cos who know how much losses I would’ve had by now.
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The Greatest Generation were the toughest Generation grew up during the Great Depression and fought in War World 2.
I’m a boomer and i agree.
Me too. My parents lived through the depression and were in WWII. Hardships unlike we had. And they didn't complain. They taught us.
@@kevinjay5908 Indeed.
Greatest generation were the people who formulated the colonies into America .
The so called greatest generation while tough as nails were molded to a ideology structured by the Frankfurt School Marxistas that took hold of our culture and molded it into the 60s counter culturism that we have today .
' Make do and mend ' is a British expression very popular amongst the wartime generation, who suffered shortages and rationing of just about everything. Still in common parlance today they are a very resourceful group who knew how to improvise and fix almost anything using initiative and whatever came to hand. It's an almost forgotten art in the 21st century with several generations brought up in a disposable buy-it-again consumerist environment.
I am a 'Boomer'. We are NOT the toughest generation. It was our parents; BY FAR !
So agree! Brilliant people , caring, selfless. I know mine covered all aspects of parenting with not man "aids" like computers.
We actually had it easiest than generations before.. AND AFTER
we had the neighborhood
Rode bikes after chores and on weekends
Gen Y, Z & Alpha, are becoming obese
Simply from staying INSIDE
with no ☀️ sun
For vitamin D3
agree.
@@kathleenking47 agree and no nutcases brought up on big pharma!
We are now the toughest - most of our parents have long ago died, and yes, they were tough. My mother was pulled out of school at 15 to go to work as a hospital aid because my grandfather had been pulled into a machine while coal mining. He was in a body cast for 6 months and was in constant pain for the rest of his life. Mom never got to go back to school to even finish high school but was one of the best read people I have known. She had to give the money to grandma to support my grandparents and her 3 youngest brothers at home. There as no Medicare or medicaid; no workmen's comp, no sick pay at that time. My brother and I both understood what a good education meant and both received doctorates in our areas. My father received his GED when he was in his 40's.
Our parents were the tough ones. They taught us about WWII and how to survive.
We had it good, yes! But we also had to earn our place. Respect was earned.
Fire bombing of Dresden 89k people killed in one night, Fire bombing of Tokyo 130k people killed in one night nukes on Japan 300k people killed, probably didn't teach you about that
67 year old here. My parents were even tougher than I am.
Mine were too. This documentary uses limited variables, some not really that true, to come to their boomer opinions.☮️✌🏼
Oh hell yeah!
i still cannot understand how my grandparents after ww2, life is so tough, can't verbalise it and they hv the courage to hv so many children. very tough n resilient.
My grandmother took mum out of school at age 12 to work in a city an hour away. Shared a room with 3 other girls. Got to come home Saturday afternoon after work and head back Sunday night. She got an allowance out of that.
My father pulled out of school at 13 to lumberjack while the men were at war.
They sure were tougher. Much tougher.
I'm 62, & my Parents were far tougher than I!
My Dad was a WW II U.S. Army Air Corp Combat Pilot over Europe, & My Mother was a Polio Survivor & A Professional Musician.
Tough As Nails!
“Come in when the street lamps turn on.”
Does anyone here remember that?
I do!
Yep. Sure do 👍
And that was late in the summer.
Car headlights. I pretended to not see them. Until so many went by. Then go home.
75 years old and, nope, don't remember because we didn't have street lights. We weren't allowed to go off our property unless specifically it was okay per our mother, like play in the adjacent woods. She would "call" us in by ringing the hand bell her mother used to ring to call in the one room school house she taught.
Our teachers were "TEACHERS"! Not just baby sitters. They had "control" of us when we were in their care all day. If we needed correcting, they gave us correcting. Parents EXPECTED them to do that because "PARENTS" were parents...NOT FRIENDS back in those days! And we LOVED AND RESPECTED our parents for being our "PARENTS"! Teaching us RIGHT FROM WRONG.🙌 Parents today do not do this to their children! Their children run the households instead of the parents! And that is a SHAME! 😭
My teachers were just babysitters. Except for a couple of them. They just called the roll then just sat there.
@del...
Especially a certain race !
The worse thing that could happen was for the princple to call my parents! I begged him not to call, that I would'n't mess-up again, (he didn't call). Then two years later, my parents met him at a Parent-Teacher night, and he told them how much better my behavior was--------BUSSED.
I will agree, God help you if you gave Teacher's backtalk. Parents were expected to be Parents and back the Teachers. If you failed in school then you failed. When I listened to "Teach Your Children" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash in 1970 (Deja Vu album) it sounded like Boomers rebelled in the '60's and now growing and becoming parents 'are you going to walk the walk or just talk the talk'. What then are the results?
True, our parents didn't coddle us neither did society.
Precisely and I'm totally relating. Am so happy I grew up, without the other distractions.
Hard times, build a strong positive character, drive and independence.
😊
You were the most coddled generation in history. Free college tuition, $5,000 houses, Union jobs for the taking...and when the going got tough, you dodged the draft.
@@100bturner
Take one of your masks off, it's killing what's left of your brain cells.
Now go back to your safe space and cuddle your emotional support dog, and be very careful, some baby boomer might infict a micro-aggression on you.🤣
@nildarodriguez3974
mine too... heck my dad once got an blood infection. .unknown to him at the time. .while working with some metal around the house... he didn't even complain about it... it wasn't until my mom noticed.. a red line going from the injury working its way under his skin towards his heart.. that she convinced him to see a doctor.. I was told if the infection would have reached his heart.. he would have died..
another time.. back in the days when lawn mowers did NOT automatically stop if you released the handle. my mother while cutting the grass felt the lawnmower was getting clogged and so she reached under the mower while the blade was still running. in order to free up the grass that was stuck.. and clipped the tip of her finger off...
she just wrapped it really tight.. and went back to cutting... dad scolded her of course when he got home for not shutting the mower off first..
she apologized to him.... her excuse was .. she did not think the blade came that close to the edge of the mower on the underside...
@@100bturner WHERE? I never heard of anyone getting free college. as far as 5K houses, minimum wage was 1.15 an hour when I started work. Who could afford 5K? LOL People went to jail for draft dodging (unless their parents were wealthy)
The Boomers were raised by the greatest generation and we became tough because of them
You Boomers did a great job on the world, and you are still screwing it up. Congratulations, you might not have started a World War but you've done just about every other stupid thing.
You got it backwards...you were PAMPERED!!!
@@christamead3753 no I was not pampered … I worked from age 10 mowing yard, clearing brush and chopping trees, not to mention I learned to paint and build a house all before I was 26 then went into the military got out went to school and worked full time and yes I paid my way in college then worked the next 45 years retiring few years ago … no I wasn’t pampered like todays kids
@@garymitchell7551you forgot to mention you voted democrat and voted away our 2nd amendment.
Sure. Many dads returned from war with undiagnosed PTSD.
I realise now at 65, we were blessed, really blessed.😊
Indeed you were. A shame such an incredibly small number of you had the idea to pass it on and not squander it.
@ReformedSooner24 That doesn't make sense. How can you pass on a blessing?
If the boomer generation can be blamed for anything, it would be that made things too easy for their kids. They should have been harder on us, so we could learn to cope better. When I was a kid , I heard boomer parents often say,
" The reason I work hard is so my kids won't have to."
Each generation creates its own problems because we think we know better when we are young.
I couldn't of said it better👍
Exactly! My dad, RIP, served on a submarine in the Pacific during World War Two. He volunteered even before he was finished high school. I will never have nearly his courage or hope to be the man he was. Boomers the toughest generation? Please.
At 74, I realize it even more than you. Salute to the Greatest Generation.
We did NOT have " safe spaces" we faced what we needed to on our own and STILL DO!!!
You had hippie beads and flowers, man.
@@barbaramatthews4735NO that's the one's who dropped out of life and reality .that's not everyone.
@barbaramatthews4735 we need some good old fashioned Anti War Hippies nowadays!
Or all those participation trophies for just showing up. We earned & fought for what we got or wanted…..nothing was owed to us.
Exactly
Our parents were tougher !
And in some ways, meaner.
Your generation were not, & are not tough. This video is attributing things about the Greatest Generation and Gen X to your generation.
I Have to say different. My parents are dead-beets... My father is a Draft-Dodger and my mom is a mediocre homemaker that couldn't even cook, and when she TRIED nobody would eat her cluster mess.... I had to BREAK AWAY from the TOXIC ENVIRONMENT ASAP so I enlisted in the armed forces. It's the BEST decision I've ever made.🇺🇸🫡 OS-3 US NAVY inactive reserve NAB Little Creek Virginia🤙😎🥃
@@Marchant2 I HAVE NOT NOTICED THAT,,, BABY BOOMERS HELP THEIR CHILDREN PAY FOR UNI DEPOSIT FOR A HOUSE UNPAID BABYSITTERS FREE TAXI SERVIS ETC
@@Marchant2 Yes they were. They also let us figure things out for ourselves.
I know kids were allowed to be paddled by the principal. Neighbors were also allowed to discipline other children. We were taught to respect our elders.
😂yeah.....I got my butt whuupped by the principal and by a neighbor parent a couple of times. My parents said I deserved it. That was the good 'ole days.
My parents spanked us. At least until we got old enough that we could run faster than they could.
Yes good point
Good ole days of the school paddling, a most ineffective mode of discipline. It was common in jr high. It was a badge of honor for the hoody guys to show how tough they were. They used to laugh, when lined against the wall, muscles rippling under their t shirts. Mrs Miller, the math teacher from hell, built like a cigarette machine, was the designated paddler. I'll never forget the bring it on bi**h looks on their beneath the ducktail coiffure faces. High school was a different story. Paddle punishment was unheard of, because teachers knew how to control classes and get students to learn, without being hitler. Even the hoody kids turned out well.
I'm a Boomer (1958) and the one thing you really got right was the physical activity aspect: playing outdoors from dawn to dusk, being part of a team, and having to make up our own games/activities. When we got home from school, we went outside and found neighborhood kids to engage with. Nobody sat inside and stared a screen--like we all do today.
I have to disagree when it comes to Boomers being the toughest generation, though. My parents' generation was by far tougher--The Great Depression, WWII, and raising children during a time of social upheaval (Civil Rights, assassinations, etc.) and youth rebellion (anti-War protests, sexual revolution, drug culture, etc.). They had to work full time and keep it all together, and at least in my families' case--they did. All four of us kids managed to get graduate degrees and have fairly comfortable lives. I miss you Mom and Dad....
Hmmm. Once upon a time the BabyBoom was the post-war babies only … ‘45-‘55.
Yes but they taught us to be tough too and eat what was on the table.
@@appaloosa42Actually all the kids from the parents who went through WW2 and the Great Depression. My dad was born in 1929, mom in 35. I was born in 58 and my younger brother in 62, right at the end of the boomer generation.
@sam...
Can relate, 100% !!
@@encouragingword1172 then ( as I keep telling people) I am actually ‘born out of time’ because my parents were born in ‘14& ‘15… and I’m the oldest.
A "boomer" here. We ARE indeed a very tough generation, but our parents (the Greatest Generation) were the TOUGHEST! The Great Depression, WW2, no question!
Rules when you get home 1. Don't burn the house 2. Don't draw blood 3. Don't let anyone in 4.Don't call me at work. We were tough and smart enough to take care of things by ourselves. I had wonderful parents who taught me so many things about life and how to be happy and good to others, and how to appreciate the things we had. I'm 66 years old and I have no regrets growing up when I did.
73!👍👍
Same. Yes!
Self flattering nonsense. Tough AND smart! Oooooh. Get MIT on the phone.
@@Anon54387 What I shared was from the heart, your childish and negative comment tells me a lot about you. you should think more about yourself and try not to come across as an ass.
How old are you? I would not like to be a kid today. My 34 year old son could not handle his emotions. Feelings vary too quickly. They are simply not facts. I miss him so much. I am 64. He od'd last year from fentanyl. I am Generation Jones. Different from the Boomers. But we have still have the same integrity, honesty, and strength. Today kids do everything based on how they feel. I find this very draining. I have to look at everything with objectivity or I will get bogged down in unimportant details that don't apply to the situation at hand. My problems are of my own making and no one else's fault. I can't boohoo through life.
We were taught by the greatest generation, our parents
That's right!
I think we Boomers WERE the Greatest Generation.
That's right and that's you aren't the toughest! You did not grow in the depression, nor ww2. This is whole video is insult.
@@KCH55 No, but some of our fathers fought in Korea, and many of our brothers and friends fought and died in Vietnam, or came home without limbs or with severe mental problems, and we have survived numerous recessions, economic crises and housing loss. Many of the homeless you see living on the streets are Boomers, especially female Boomers, who have lost their homes due an inability to cover unexpected medical costs (the #1 reason for homelessness today is loss of homes to medical costs because ours is the only developed country in the world without universal or near-universal healthcare. On top of that we have the highest infant and maternal death rates among the developed countries). And we may still be faced with the loss of our Democracy. But, our generation (The People, not the wealthiest people) has always fought for those things, universal healthcare, etc., but it was the next generation who made sure we didn’t get them, and even took reproductive rights away, which increased maternal and infant mortality rates. Ours was the generation that gave us those reproductive rights in the first place.
They were probably tougher than us, especially with the Depression and sacrificing for WWII.
Wow! As a boomer myself, it's rather refreshing to see a video that doesn't blame my generation for all the evils in the country and the world!
Indeed...this is a good report.
You could at least start taking responsibility for the ones you did cause.
@@vangroover1903 Which ones did the baby boomers in particular cause that every other generation didn't cause?
@@vangroover1903Sorry but predicting the future wasn't part of our curriculum.
@@montamiddleton9318 what about hindsight and learning from your past?
1946 born and learned decency and
Honestly fight for truth honour .
Stand up for yourself no one owes you anything
What is this "Nobody owes you anything"? People owe us and we owe them. If I work for my employer, for an agreed amount of money, the employer owes me. If I tell someone that I am going to do something, I owe it to that person to do it. If my parents gave me decent life including educating me and teaching me values, I kind of owe it to them to see that they are cared for in their old age. Many things have improved for the better since 1946. Most things in fact. Couldn't pay me to go back.
@@Bklyn112 C0mmie programming
Actually the CORRECT term is NEOLIBERALS, @@dmurphy5689
My mother was born in 1945.
She has never said no one owes us a thing.
She holds grudges against those who have and those who get public assistance.
Although she is patriotic she believes in government control.
She is not a conservative.
Not even a little bit.
Born 1945
Born in 1955. Played outside until dark, sometimes later. Skinned knees were common, treated with merthiolate and no crying during treatment. Momma bought me a new pair of shoes and I fell in the stinky ditch. My butt was stinging for days after that whipping. And don't even think about crying, because "I'll give you something to cry about...."
Exactly how my mom was, don’t you be a child and cry! Don’t make mistakes like a child or you’ll be physically punished! Great times indeed.
@@CT-vm4gfSo sad. That's no way to raise kids. No wonder genexers traumatized millennials and millennials are doing it the complete opposite, sometimes to gen z's and gen alpha's detriment. Boomers should acknowledge the damage they caused and apologize to their kids, grand and great grand kids.
Same here in the UK😊
LOL True
I was more scared of my mother than my father.
BOOMERS!!!💪💪💪 We Can Read Maps & Find Our Way Home!
Lol true.
And analog clocks. I've heard kids today can only tell time if it's digital LED lights, not the old wall clock with the large and small hands.
@@Unfamous_BuddhaAnd they'll never understand 12 o'clock high. It helps with orientation, maps, GPS, astronomy - all tied to analog clocks. But did their parents teach them? No.
@@Unfamous_Buddha Are you serious?
@@boomer3150-
My sister (born in 1957) was telling me about how these kids today can't understand cursive writing and analog clocks.
I'm not a Jimmy Kimmel fan but he has a segment titled, "Kids Can't Tell Time Anymore" where they go into the streets, show kids a clock and ask them, "What time is it?" - The kids don't know (so they make guesses).
I'm glad I'm a " boomer"! I wouldn't have it any other way.
Me either
Same here 😊
Those really were the last of the "good old days"!
Funny I was just thinking what adult age I'd love to stay forever and I think 35 ,back then life was not so absolutely insane 😢
We are tough because our parents were tough. No one was coddled. Stand up and face whatever is ahead of you.
If you're not sweating or bleeding, you're not playing or working hard enough, lol.1959,65yr.old,truly Blessed.
True! And good for you.
Me2! 1959, (65)
Yes, my DAD always said “if you’re not bleeding you are not working “.
Same, 1947. Plus I got polio in 1954, and I'm still working as a trash truck mechanic
79 years old
Boomer here. We walked and rode bikes all over our city, learned to budget the 25 cents we each got to shop in our city on Saturdays, and took the bus to downtown Cincinnati by ourselves. Nowadays parents could get in trouble for letting a 12-year-old venture off like that. We played outside in all seasons and organized our own games with all the kids on our street. Parents had nothing to do with it unless someone got hurt. Then your mom put painful merthiolate on your wound, stuck a bandaid on it, and sent you back out to play. TV had 3 channels. We had to entertain ourselves. We had no tech except walkie talkies. It was a great time to grow up! The world wasn’t perfect by far (racism and prejudice were everywhere and women’s rights were non-existent), but there was much that was good.
And we survived lawn darts, pogo sticks, and clackers 😂
Wrong...our tech included sling shots etc....😂😂😂😂
Wow, you had walkie-talkies? We knew they were available, but we didn’t have them ourselves. We just had to keep in mind where our siblings and friends were so we could find them if we needed them.
Racism? It dependent on where you were..
Women's rights?
Similar.. especially if women didn't want to go certain things, and stayed by the kitchen and sewing room.
Even in the 1960s, older women didn't like wearing pants, unless they were on horses
Suzi: Two bits? You lucky! Must have come from a wealthy family!
We didn't whine about being "victims". Made the best of the circumstances and doubled down to improve the situation. There were always a few spoiled brats who would drop out by taking drugs in order to escape adversity. The rest of us tried to do what was right no matter how hard it may have been out of respect for our parents and grandparents.
It wasn't a time for those of a sensitive disposition, especially if you were working class. A lot of kids ended up needing therapy.
Amen
I’m also a boomer and I must say that the toughest are my parents and grandparents generation.
I was born in March 1952. But our parents from the Depression might have been tougher.
they were.
I can recall being pressured to clean my plate by the dinner ladies at school. Their generation seemed to think that you'd die of starvation if you went without dessert.
@@catherinebirch2399-
If I didn't finish my food when I was little, my parents would say, "But people in India are starving." And I'd be confused. What's that mean?
If I don't eat it, how are they going to be able to get here and eat it?
they were way tougher...
You pretty tough there old man, That amount of time here, can't be nothing but. Respect & a great future to you. 👏✌
I was even bullied by some of my teachers. We had the best music. When I first started work, there weren't any personal computers. By the end of my last job, I was a computer expert. We reused and recycled more than today's people.
So was I, teachers could pretty much treat you as they wanted, and everyone just kind of "rolled with it"....parents would most of the time agree with what teacher did,,,,,,teacher would call us names,,,,,,,etc........yet we turned out ok.
I wish sodas were still in glass bottles, in US
With cane sugar
Not corn syrup
That started in 1975
As we entered the job market our sheer numbers meant we faced greater competition than any other generation before. How that influenced our toughness is an interesting study in sociology and psychology.
@annb1: Corporal punishment at school was still the norm. Our/my parents from the "greatest generation" were tough on us because they knew that life was tough and they were just preparing us for what lay ahead, a parents job. Sheesh!
Allowance? Go out and scrounge up your spending money by doing whatever side work you could find. Pulling the neighbors weeds, mowing lawns with a push mower, selling Xmas & all occasions cards door to door in the neighborhood or whatever. For teen girls, maybe doing the ironing for a neighbor, piece work.
Whatever you were expected to do at home was just paying for your room and board and as a part of being in the family unit it was your contribution and mommy didn't follow you around and pick up after you once you were old enough to do it yourself.
Toughest generation? I don't think so but at least we had the self confidence to move out at 18 or before and make it on our own because that's where we were headed. You didn't just move out when you were ready, it was expected and required of you and most of us couldn't wait for that to happen because it was a challenge and the beginning of a new adventure called adult life!
@@skipperclinton1087 Hay kid, that cut looks bad. Rub some dirt on it, get your glove, and go play right field.
My parents (pre-boomer generation) are the TOUGHEST generation, and they made us a tough generation. I LIKE my generation. We know how to converse, problem solve, think, plan, and have manners and understand a sense of community. Nowadays, not so much.
I'm a 70 yr old Baby Boomer....I owe all that I am to my parents...depression born and part of the greatest generation. As the oldest, I was the sitter, started dinner and laundry. It made me a responsible adult! I raised my kids the same.
I am 63 years old, and born at just about the tail-end of the "Baby Boom" era. I can identify with about 95% of this presentation. Both of my parents were hard working professionals, so my brothers and I were "latchkey kids". We had a list of chores that kept us busy. No internet, no cellphones. But we managed to have loads of fun, grew up with a nice standard of living, taught the value of a dollar, and were expected to work to earn big-ticket items, such as our own cars. Besides, we really enjoyed building "forts", listening to some of greatest music ever made, PATRIOTISM, and got to own & drive the best cars ever built during the 1960s and 1970s. I would not change anything about my American upbringing. My Mama and Daddy were the best parents as children of the 1940s and 1950s. They taught us well.
Boomers parents were WW2 and The Great Depression survivers - which fostered the traits and activities mentioned here.
☮️💟. They are wonderful examples.
Yes he is getting mixed up boomers did NOT grow up in the depression their parents did
@@lindamorgan2678He did say “Boomer’s parents” and used that to explain why Boomers became what we were.
We were proud to have those keys! It was a sign of being granted responsibility.
I think the only boomers in America who ruined everything happened to be the same old ones that are 70 to 80 years old and still sitting in Congress because they are what causes our problems and don’t fix anything!!
depression was our parents ! boomers diff era. Do your research. We were born after ww2 n depression !!😮
We are the last normal people...I still think like a boomer..
and OUR kids.❤
You are so right.
What is normal?
If boomers had kids later
The millennials, gen Z, and alphas could be into boomer things.. especially the music
@@ShawnPatton-rm2hv how old r you? 12 ?
I'm proud to be a baby boomer. Playing outdoors was just better than watching TV. And some never had a TV. And if you did, it was strictly what your parents wanted to watch. When outside playing, we had no helmets, or knee pads. You stuck a bandaid on it and kept playing. We drank water out of hoses and never got sick doing so. Technology was manual typewriters, doing math the old fashioned way, with pencil and paper. Young kids have no idea how to use the Dewey Decimal to find a book in the library. As for bullies, you either took it or stood up for yourself. Our play things and outdoor stuff was made of metal no plastic anywhere on it. They lasted years, and didn't break as readily. We had skinned knees and elbows, and stubbed toes. We endured sunburns, which is why we have skin cancer today. There was no sun block creams or sprays. And despite all the stuff these last few generations have today, I wouldn't change my childhood. I'm 71yrs now, and look back to those past years with fondness.
A lot of us made our own stuff, too. It wasn't that you couldn't buy wagons, go-carts or skateboards, it was just more fun to take older toys apart and make something different out of them. We built tree forts everywhere.
I'm 75 this year....no mention of the Vietnam War and the draft?
Yeah, born in 1950 here. And without question for those of us in the older half of our generation Vietnam was the defining fact of our lives. Not sure how they can even talk about us and not mention that war. It had us very divided politically back then, and we still are! People thinking all Boomers think alike is utterly ludicrous. We never have and never will!!
@@charlotte50224 Good point Charlotte!
WELL SIOR SOME OF US DO . VIETNAM WAS A THUNDERING DISGRACE . THE AMERICA GOVERNMENT KNEW AFTER TWO HALF YEARS THEY COULD NOT WIN THEY KNEW IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO WIN YET THEY CONTINUED TO SEND THESE AMERICAN HEROS TO WAR /
WHY TO SAFE FACE THEY WOULD NOT BE HUMILIATED AND BELIEVED THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS WOULD KICK ASS IN SIX MONTHS SO BECUSE OF THIS SAVING FACE IT COST THE BLOODLINES OF AMERICAS SONS .
BUT THE WORSE THING WAS HOW THEY TREATED THE SEVERELY INJURED SOLDIERS NO LEGS NO ARMS HORRIFIC BURNS AND MUCH MUCH MORE .
I HAVE, WILL NOT EVER FORGET THE HOMELESS BRAVE AMAZING LADS ON THE STREET HOMELESS BEGGING .
HERE IN THE UK. WE WERE HORRIFIED AT THIS CALLAS, CRUEL. UNFORGIVABLE TREATMENT THAT WAS DISHED OUT BY THE GOVERNMENT / THEY DID NOT NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT AND BLOODY WELL NOT DO A SINGLE THING TO AID OR HELP THEIR OWN PEOPLE THEIR OWN SONS
NO SIR SOME OF US RECALL REMEMBER AND NOT EVEN AMERICAN .
HOWEVER THANK YOU SIR FOR YOUR SERVICE
YOU are a lot tougher than any boomer.
@@glynnisthomas9165 She is a boomer, and so am I. Teachers and school were very strict. Of course we are tougher than ourselves. We are really tough!
I'm 73. The other day, 2 of our grandchildren stumbled upon this video and saw it. As they watched, they mentioned to me, "Grandpa, you can do all that stuff, you should be a Baby Boomer too." I replied, "Okay, I'll try." Love those kids.
The greatest generation was the toughest
Many are still here, if they quit smoking in time
Agree. Also I had an older sister who was born in 1937. She had it a lot harder than i did born in 1949. Life was better when I was born. My sister had to come straight home from school and had to do chores after school then do homework. I got dance lessons starting at 5 years old until I was 13. I had to do chores but my parents had lightened up by the time I came along. There was a Sis in the middle.
I’m a proud Baby Boomer.
I graduated high school at 17, worked at a department store and opened about four credit cards. I bought some nice clothes because I had always worn Catholic school uniforms. I was earning $50 per week . I gave my mom $15 per week and I thought I was rich!
Sounds like you were far richer than you thought, and certainly more than most people today. Wealth has many forms, not just cash.
I had an office & sales job @ 16 making $65 a week. $15 went to my aunt for a sofa to sleep on and a ride to work. The rest went into a savings passbook. Oh, I spent a few bucks for some Kool cigs. LOL
Ah . . . the Catholic School uniform! Our were two piece, and wool.
No prolonged adolescence. No arrested development.
More like eternal babies.
Some in rural CA..are getting married and starting families pre 25..
Your generation is the very definition of prolonged adolescence. Yours is the generation that came up with the ridiculous idea of the inner child.
@@Anon54387 They're Boomers. It's only bad if others do it, and let's remember how low born and ill bred so many of them still are.
Gen Z and Gen Alpha are already tougher than the Boomers. Boomers were the most spoiled generation in American history.
IF we are the toughest, most resilient, generation (and I'm not sure I buy that) it's because our parents expected it from us, and taught us how to do it. The Greatest Generation had far, far more to deal with than we did, and they prevailed. We learned it from them.
I’m a boomer (1953). This was well done but I’d like to remind the viewer that the Boomers you see in the film are the little kids which you don’t see that much in the film. Also the effects of the Vietnam War were a very important part of growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s
We don't see much of the coloured people either who were suffering from racial discrimination neither do we see the native and Asian people.
Vietnam War, protests against it, civil rights protests and sometimes riots, 3 major American leaders assassinated in a few short years, the Bomb lurking over everyone's lives, sex drugs and rock and roll, major social upheaval, new technology expanding exponentially. When we felt kinda safe after going through all that, then here comes 9-11, more race riots, rights being pulled from us after we fought so hard to get them.
But, we did have THE BEST MUSIC. Helped to keep us sane.
Im a boomer. Id have to say my grandparents generation were much tougher than us. We had it easy, compared to them.
I'm a boomer, we are much more resilient than the younger generation. The kids of the 1940's were much tougher than the boomers.
I'm talking about those kids who grew up during the great depression & WWII.
Boomers are tough because they had to grow up hearing about how terrible the depression was, and how lucky we were to have missed it.
I heard the same stories, and thought all wars would be the same. When it was announced that the US was going to go to war with Iraq, I just assumed there would be rationing and a great depression to go along with it.
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Most of our parents expected us to leave home at 18 unlike millennials
I left at 16
Many of the older generation in the.50's through to the 70's acted as though the depression was still on. They would create merry hell if their kids didn't clean their plate.
@@judiashley5818 omg you left the house! Where did you move on ? Irak ? Vietnam?
"Most" of what they're showing here and talking about is more the "Greatest Generation". Those who were born during the Great Depression". But Baby Boomers did learn a lot from their "Greatest Generation" Parents.
I’m 52 & hate the world today. Hate social media , hate all of it. We are drowning as a society. People are effing weak today. Our parents had it tougher. My dad will be 88 soon and has dealt WITH A LOT from child hood and on. I’d give anything to go back or even not be born. Schools are a joke and teaching nothing but activism and gender garbage. It’s depressing how far we have degraded. God bless us all
Baby boomer here. What a beautiful time to be alive. 🙋♀️ 🇺🇸 🙏🏼
I am a Baby Boomer, and I wouldn't change my childhood for anything! I was bullied, but my parents told me to just ignore the bullies. I did, and I made it. We didn't wear any protective gear when we rode bikes or roller skated. We climbed to the top of the monkey bars and whirled around and around on the merry go round, and we never fell off of either one. I was so active and much fun playing outdoors.
Myself and most of my brother and sisters are boomers. Our parents grew up in the depression. they raised nine kids. our mom was born in 1932 with only one hand, raised nine kids, twins as well and lost a daughter in a house fire in the early 50's. We were poor. But we learned to appreciate what we had and everything that we worked hard for as adults. I am 66 now, clean my own place, repair stuff and haven't eaten at a restaurant in years because My mom taught me how to cook. And when our dad was about three years old, he remembers, Al Capone giving out dollar bills to kids on the street. And our dad was one of those kids.
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I'm a Boooomer!!! And proud to be part of one of the Toughest Generations in History!!! Most of us had nothing, but worked our asses off , just to be a little better off!!! Unlike these new generations, that are almost useless!!
If you learned from your parents, then the younger generation learned from their parents.
We were already taking typing classes in high school long before computers. Being a typist was a job description.
In 1985 I took typing in high school because I owned a C-64 and wanted to learn touch typing. They had us on ink-ribbon machines banging hard copy like our futures depended on it!
But hey, girl-boomer consider this: being "a computer" was once a job description typically of math-geek women who... well... computed things. They were computers, just like copiers and proofers and filers. And the first programmers were exclusively women via the switchboard operator career path... and then women totally fumbled their grip on that industry. Why? Why?!
Being able to type supported me throughout my entire working career.
A friend of mine and I took two typing classes in high school. This was in the mid-1970s. We were the only males in a room full of girls, so we were regarded as rather strange. But we learned to type, and did that ever turn out to be useful.
@@gj8683 They wouldn't let girls in shop class in the 60's.
@@TS-hw2gp That's right. In middle school in the 70s where I was, boys had to take shop in 7th grade and girls had to take home economics.
4:32 Our parents didn't want us hanging around the house. So we played outside and were expected to come inside before dark. Going to the park to play was a special treat for us! When you look at pictures of kids from that time, there weren't many that were obese. I remember in 2000 starting a new job and a boomer coworker commented to me how out of shape the 20 and 30 somethings were!
Our parents allowed us to have freedom, be independent and enjoy ourselves. They thought that was important and that being outside was better than sitting in front of the tv. Kids lives were so different and much better.
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my theory, is
Cable/24/7 TV caused kids to stay up past their bedtime
In early 1980s
Many TV stations went off after 1:30 with 🇺🇲
Came back on at 4:30
With 🇺🇲
Engineer had to check test pattern
And probably slept at stations
Oh..many greatest generation people are still here and quite alert in their 90s, & 100s
We were expected to spend our Sat mornings doing yard work and chores around the house.
2000 that would be only in the US the - Europeans weren't then or now actually obese / overweight or unfit in comparison.
No Civil Rights struggle or Vietnam War protests in this video. This generation grew up with anger that could see the injustices in society. Proud we helped and took up the challenges to change the world.
Exactly. Our generation brought about more social change than any other.
YES AND THE SAD THING IS LOOK AT US NOW UNDER THE WEF
DE POPULATION AGENDA ON ITS WAY 86 PERCENT BY 2040 TO 2045
@@reindeer7752 Not for the positive.
Boomers were kids hearing about the civil rights movement at the dinner table. What year MLK born? Even upstart Malcom X born 1925, come on.
And Boomer Vietnam protests were like Greta's student activism. The establishment (not college students!) pulled the levers.
I suppose Boomers landed on the Moon too.
I was a punk in the 80's so my generation was the force ending the 2nd cold war and disbanding the Soviet Union?
@@famousguy547 If you prefer a country without civil rights, I can suggest a number of them you can move to.
A book compared the numbers of Boomers to a pig in a python. There were so many of us competing in large classes and gaining entry into college and the job market that the skills, values, and experiences we learned from the Greatest Generation, our parents, served us well.
That was because of how well the economy was doing. You guys were spoiled and entitled, & lucky enough to be born into America's golden age and have everything basically handed to you on a silver platter. Now here you are, puffing yourself up like Boomers always do.
I can remember overcrowded classrooms and not enough jobs for young people in the recession of the early 70's it wasn't a fun time to be young.
"Latchkey" kids were more of a gen x trait. Boomers grew up in two parent households, where mom was usually there when they came home.
Bull, there was only one stay at home mom in our neighbourhood! It was not mine! But latch key is wrong. We did not lock our doors!
Definitely a lot of GenX latchkey kids. I was one.
The Greatest Generation was the Greatest Generation.
Agreed
Amen!
We were raised with gratitude and respect toward our elders sufferings and endurance. ❤
67 and genuine baby boomer. I'm tough as nails. I work full in time at one job and 20 hours at a second one
@@kaydeedid that's great. You still don't beat who lived through the Depression and fought in WW2.
That very true, however this video deals with the toughest generation.
The things I learned in Boy Scouts benefitted me my entire life. From character to remaining calm in disaster, it started when I was 11 and joined Troop 200 in Paducah, KY. It's a real loss that kids don't have that structure today.
We had grit from birth. No nonsence drama. We settled our own problems. We have values morals and respect. Im honored to grow up in this error. Sad the way the world is now 😢
We also had stricter parents and as a result, we learned how to be sneaky and not get caught when we did bad things.
What ever happened to "The Presidents Council on Physical Fitness?" I haven't seen that in schools for many years! In the 50's and 60's we were encouraged to be clean, fit and healthy which was very easy because we were always playing outside, during all 4 seasons. I was always fit and healthy but not always clean due to extensive playing in not so clean places which most kids did back then which enhanced our immune systems.
Yep, this pretty much covered the way it was. We were encouraged to problem-solve instead of some "helicopter parent" hovering over us and fixing everything. We grew confident and independent. We were eager to become adults and move into our own places. The kids today have been held back from doing the things that would have helped them to grow strong by enablers who didn't allow them to try, fail, and try again until they made it. Every child gets a prize whether they are the winner or not. There is no incentive to be the best and to work hard when it doesn't matter to them.
Thank you! I saw in the late 80s and 90s how every kid got an award for nothing, or only the most meager attempt, and I knew then it was going to cause a problem. I truly believe that’s where all the attitudes of entitlement come from today. For the Boomers, only the very best (and only one) got an award for the effort they put in.
@barb-jm7990 - _"helicopter parents" hovering over and fixing everything"_ When I was growing up I did my own homework by myself, and now in recent years, I heard parents _"help"_ do the kids homework.
Another thing that amazes me as a difference between Boomers and the younger generations is that as Boomers, we couldn’t wait to get our driver’s license. I remember my 16th birthday so we’ll because I was too sick to go to school, but you can bet I made it to the DMV to get my license! To us it meant freedom. I drove as often as possible, and I even drove across country by myself several times, and I once drove all the way through Mexico to the Yucatán because I had always wanted to see Chichén Itzá! It amazes me when younger people tell me today that they have no interest in even learning how to drive. I would feel trapped if I could only take buses and Ubers or rely on friends who drive.
Even the Gen Xers, many of our kids are pretty independent as we didn't really "hover". These Gen Z kids are sad in their inability to think outside the box. Even on vacation they dont know how to be adventurous. Its all about their phone.
Yep, sounds like my life growing up. Our parents were WWII and Korean War vets. Both parents worked, brother and I ate breakfast and spent the whole day exploring miles away from home during the summer and got home at dinner time. Dinner was on the table at 6pm sharp.
Went in the military after graduating HS.
Thank you for your service
Also, steaming vegetables, and cooking was pretty basic
It's possible, the microwave made us a little lazier..overlooking and reheating
Before, we had to measure the amounts
sounds very familiar....this was the beginning of the economic problem which has only grown into the grotesque unrecognizable spectacle it is today...both parents had to work....2 children considered very small family...and you chose the military which tells me your parents stayed in low paying jobs which means no college for you........ the area you grew up in didn't offer anything in employment to make you want to stay....study the economy of USA and things are very clear.....understand where you fit in on the economic spectrum....once you have determined your location move strategically through the choices you make.....know your value and limitations...one piece of advice is no debt...only your home should be financed .....another is you can always downsize somewhere.....and of course don't have babies if you know there is no possible way you can generate the funds needed to do an adequate job....make smart choices....a person is rich in choices in the USA...understand the norm was and is suppose to be if a man works a 40 hour week at min wage he could have a family of 4 2 cars and one week vaca....this is what America looked like after ww2 then after Nixon and def beginning with Reagan 1981 it changed into both parents have to work....wealthy ppl don't do that both parents work not cuz they don't have to because they know children fare better with a parent at home to see them off to school and greet them when the come home...latchkey kid is not like this video says....nobody at home alot of the time is no place for your children....again choices...have the ability to freely move about to seek self betterment.....don't fly by the seat of your pants cuz you turn around and your 40 fat divorced and up to your eyeballs in debt and your teenage son has his girlfriend living in his bedroom....bad choices is how that happened
@kathleenking47 My parents never owned a microwave. My mother got home at 5pm. She partially prepared dinner in the morning or put in a slow cooker. Sundays we had a fancy dinner. My father would become mad if dinner wasn't on the table at 6pm.
Besides having an oven powered by natural gas there was also a wood stove in the kitchen. In the winter my father would cook a huge pot of spaghetti sauce with meatballs and sausage.on the wood stove and what we didnt eat for dinner would be frozen and we would have spaghetti meatballs and sausage a few weeks later. It was rare that we had any junk food in the house unless they had a party.
@terririchter2279 I had two siblings, a brother and sister, I was the youngest, brother was a year older and sister 7 years older. My mother never got her driver's license, she lived to be 93, she was the accountant for an upscale ladies department store she got a ride to and from work from another women who worked there who lived close by. My father owned his own construction/slash remodeling business he usually got home before my mother and he died of cancer at the age of 60 30yrs ago. Most people worked at the factory which was/is owned by a very large international company, rhe factory is the size of a city itself and they had high paying jobs, my uncle retired from there. He was a steam fitter and WWII navy veteran We lived in a middle class neighborhood.
My brother and I chose the military because we didn't want to go to college. We served our 4yrs got out and both had successful careers. I retired a couple of years ago and my brother is retiring this year. We live in different states. He lives in an upper class neighborhood and I live in a middle upper class neighborhood. My sister lives in an upper middle class neighborhood, she never worked, she had 4 kids and stayed home, my brother-in-law made a very good living. He worked for a national company and was the head of their computer department. He didn't go to college either but the company he worked actually paid for him to learn computer language, he retired 4yrs ago.
As a Boomer myself when I think back to the lives my grandparents had, that was seriously very hard. They saw WW1, Great Depression, WW2, bank failures. I remember my grandmother told me she didn't trust banks. I just thought she was ridiculous. She just didn't tell me why she didn't trust banks. My parents (greatest generation) earned their reputation. My father, a WW2 B-17 pilot flew over 50 missions over Europe. I will spare you his war stories, but it is a miracle that I am here. But don't forget our grandparents.
My Dad was a B24 Liberator navigator, later pilot, in WWII. The attrition ("death") rate for his bombardment group was 78%. He was NINETEEN. You can't beat our parents' generation for tough and resilient.
I was a bad kid, and teachers straightened me out. Now days they get sued if they do. I had a news paper route at 12 bought all my clothes and cut grass with a push mower raked leaves shoveled snow . On weekends we played Baseball and went swimming or did Boxing with all my best friends about 8 of us quite often. Went sledding and skating depending on the season. Played a Trombone and Was a cub scout , Weablow and boy Scout.Went roller skating on Thursday nights Oh and I played in a Rock band playing guitar. Learned to do autobody and paint cars from my dad before I was 18. I then joined the Airforce had a top secret security clearance. All before 19. Grew up in Detroit.
My MIL and I got in an argument that if we had a depression now the Baby Boomers would be able to get by. She didn't believe that. Now a lot of the greatest generation is gone. So we have to be prepared.
However, a lot are still here
They may be in walkers, but still aware
The baby Boomers would go down fast and hard if another Great depression hit.
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when I screwed up mom would say"wait till your father gets home"I could hear my father come up the stairs and knew in a few minutes it wouldbe facing dad. He could pull his belt out of his pants at the speed of light and sounded like thunder. He would fold his belt in half and I braced for it. In all the years he did that he never hit me with it. He was putting the fear of god in me. I loved and respected my father and miss him dearly.
I am 64 and still a hard worker who enjoys the ability to complete home projects, stay fit and keep my chin up no matter what. The attitude that you have to keep getting up every day with a grateful smile is what got me this far. I look at younger adults now and I feel sad that they didnt get that - Its a gift!
The best thing my mom taught me was budgeting and work ethic. I was a latchkey child along with my older brother. We got a basic 25 cent allowance but if we took on extra chores we could earn a little extra. When I got into high school I was given $5 dollars to do with what I wanted, a combination of lunch money and allowance. I chose to eat meagerly and spend the leftovers on albums, or clothes. Still have some of those albums some sixty years later…maybe a better investment than a bag of chips😂
I remember that 25 cents would buy me 6 candy bars!!!
I never knew any latchkey kids .They all had mothers at home .All the mothers knew the neighbors.
@@Fred_Bender Ahh, the mom telegraph system! Mom's tracked kinds in their area and let the other moms know. You couldn't get away with much, and woe be the miscreant upon returning home. OF course the system only worked well on weekends and evenings because most of the moms worked. But you'd better have your homework done by the time mom got home!
I'm 74. Both my parents were Marines, and it was a brutal upbringing. My dad was a career fighter pilot, my mom was a WWII Marine. They went through the Depression and the ravages of war, so that makes them the toughest generation. Boomers, however, grew up in an era when it was perfectly legal for parents to beat their children -- my brother and I had PTSD before it was ever dreamed of in the the psych world. Actually, I think that's what made us both tough, resilient, and persistent.
Our parents were really the TOUGHEST generation, and that's why they molded us into the BEST GENERATION ...
This is a great delineation of my life as a Boomer. I think WE were the Greatest Generation! As for fighting the bullies, I had a group of 9th grade bullies who followed me around school in junior high and flipped the back of my head enough to really hurt. I tried to ignore it for a while (as my mother suggested), but that didn’t decrease their interest, so one day I turned around and gave one of the guys an uppercut that would have made Muhammed Ali proud, and broke his jaw! BTW, I was just an 8th grade girl! I never got reported (their male ego, I’m sure), and they never bullied me again. In fact, whenever they saw me in the hallway after that, they turned around, en masse, and walked the opposite direction. I’m also glad this video also showed pictures of hippies, too. That was a very fun reaction to the Vietnam war and the social changes, and I’m glad I was a part of that, as well as the feminist movement, which I’m still a part of (no surprise there, huh, after my junior high school experience?). Our music was also some of the best ever, and still unmatched today. I’m so glad to have come from that generation.
You broke a bullies jaw? You are a true BadAss!! ;)
@@Vote4DemocracyALWAYS LOL…thank you! I was always secretly proud of that. Never told my parents about it, of course!
I walked to grammar school every day. For high school, I used buses and trains, 1 1/2 hours each way. Same for college. I have had friends who had to wake up their kids to go to college, and then would drive them there! WTF!! As a child, was a Brownie and Girl Scout, took tap and ballet classes, and piano at 5 years old and guitar at 14. I was a latchkey kid and an only child. Was never in trouble with the law. Played sports and board games, had hobbies and read a lot. Developed my musical skills and was a paid session musician upon graduation from high school.
Yep! So much I did the same: Brownies, Girl Scouts, started dance tap & ballet at 5 yrs and stayed with it till 14. Then I ended up getting my Degree in Dance. Speaking of walking home from grammar school: there was a very significant EARTHQUAKE IN 1957 in San Francisco. I was 7 years old. My home was 2 blocks from school. We were under the desks. At noon time they sent everyone home. Parents didn't necessarily come and pick you up. I had to walk home being 7 years old with the ground trembling and cracks in the side walks newly made ALL BY MYSELF to get home. I WILL NEVER FORGET IT. That is why people should never take any earthquake as a joke, which some transplants to California love to do like smug big dealers. When you grow up with several of them but have to walk home during the shaking you never forget. So yes, we boomers experienced a lot!
There weren't that many latch key kids as Boomers. That term became a thing more with Gen Xers.
I walked to school until Jr. High. Took two city busses to get there. If I didn't take the bus I walked.
Boomers are still the best! Family and friends were paramount. In my era of being a kid in the 50's & early 60's mom was always home, every house was open to kids in the neighborhood (never locked doors) and we were told to be home by dark. If you heard your mom call you by your full name, you had better be there fast! We repaired everything, and bought new only when things could not be repaired. Sports and "roughhousing" (especially for boys) were common. Never heard of bullying, but if you were only 5'9" like me you had to get tough. The big guys learned in a hurry who not to pick on. Sometimes you had to deck a bully ( only had to do that twice), but that was considered a part of life. We had a great time to live!
Same here and I was only 5' 6" and 130lbs my senior year of high school. At least it was muscle. Now I'm still 5' 6" but heaver, but the muscle part ... well. What happened? We had a good life and I'm glad most of us are finally appreciating it. Our biggest fault is growing up during an era like no other and expecting it to last. I wish you well.
One afternoon in 1970 I had just gotten out of a movie and instead of going home I got the crazy notion to ride my bike to an attraction in the next town. I wanted to see how long it would take. The roads weren't nearly as jammed as they are today. I got to the attraction at dusk, turned around and pedaled back, arriving home well after dark. I had pedaled about 25 miles round trip. Needless to say my mom gave me the ever lovin' blues. During all this I never once thought about predators or getting lost and there were no armies of police looking for me. I just got my butt chewed and that was it. Now I can just ride the bus there and back. Those were the days.
So why didn't you pass that down?
Yes Mom's were always home, I never heard of a lock key kid, nobody locked their doors and kids didn't have a house key.
@@annierichards7367 yeah, you Boomers brought the latchkey kid thing into being. You all sit here bragging about how much better you are because of how you were raised, but then act like future generations had nothing to do with your own efforts.
Not even close. Now our parents,, the Greatest Gen, earned that title...because it was true.
I was born in 1956 - My parents were much tougher. Dad was in Greatest Gen and a WWII vet. Mom was Silent Gen and even tougher than Dad. My friends and I hiked nearly 10 miles in the summer before 7th grade by following a high tension line easement, and when we got to a small town someone talked me into calling home on a payphone for a ride, as it got dark. My mom answered the phone and I explained where we were and needed a ride home - she asked how we got there, and I said "We walked", she said "Then turn around and walk back" and hung up! I was not really thrifty growing up, just poor. I splurged all my $$ every paycheck. It wasn't until I got into my 40s did I start getting serious about finances. A lot of these generalities are about our parents and even grandparents, which we eventually started to model if we wanted to be successful. How do they know what I 'liked' and what I 'loved'? Satisfaction comes from dong a job and earning money vs being given something for nothing. Honest sweat almost always guarantees a good night sleep. Be suspicious of any treatise like this general video that constantly uses words like THEY ALWAYS and THEY WOULD NEVER.
The term "latchkey kid" is most associated with Generation X, which typically refers to people born between 1965 and 1979. This generation experienced a significant increase in the number of working mothers and dual-income households, alongside a lack of widespread after-school programs. As a result, many Gen Xers were left to fend for themselves after school, becoming known as latchkey kids.
Most mothers were housewives in my community
Gen X here, and I agree. We were the latchkey kids!
Agreed. "Latchkey Kid" born in 1969.
Born in '71 to single parent, my day-care was literally called Latch Key.
I think there's a qualitative difference when you're an only child of a single working parent who has evening commitments, coming home to watch TV alone, because Stranger Danger. Boomers cannot fathom this. Some Boomers say we're lucky to grow up without siblings, and to have hours and hours of TV all to ourselves.
Yep. The boomers came home to mom cooking dinner. Gen X came home to an empty house and a can of Spaghetti-Os.
I think you're confused. The "latch key kids" were not baby boomers. It was their children, dubbed Generation X.
I was born in 1952. I was a latch key kid. Responsible for cooking, cleaning, laundry and caring for my younger siblings. Never had an allowance. Was beaten if dinner wasn’t on the table when mom got home, beaten if grades weren’t As . Never saw a dentist. Only saw a Doctor to get vaccinated. Worked for 50 cents an hour in 1st job. Speak for yourself
My sister and I,1956 and 1960 , latchkey kids in Australia
Wrong. I was a latchkey kid when I was nine years old. Born in 1957.
@@dr.migilitoloveless2385 Most households didn't have women working in the 50's. Only Gen X is known as the latchkey generation.
"Latch key kid" was first used in the 40's, but not until the explosion of single parent households did it became commonplace, and then the norm. In the early 70's (born of separated young Boomers) I attended a government subsidized Canadian day-care literally named _Latch Key_ . For those who will be when they're 8 or 9 years old.
The stats on single-parent single-income households indicate few Boomers were latch-key kids. Of course there are outspoken exceptions sharing an experience more common of generation-x.
I suspected this was the case. I'm so glad to be a baby boomer.
Me too!😎🌺💕🥷
Me three! I learned to fix and repair any and everything because I had to, I was a divorced Mother of 5 children and couldn't afford to hire someone to repair or replace things. I have never been worried or afraid to try new technology either.
We have lived through an amazing era.
@@jodeeps2287 You're one of the Moms who saved a generation. These latest ones would probably burn oatmeal, if they tried to cook.
@@lilblackduc7312 Wow, what a wonderful comment, you just made my ego soar, I like to think I raised a good family, thank you very much ❤️
Booner was no doubt one of the greatest generations. From 3 wars, children playing outside ,no internet, DIYs ,family seating to a meal ❤️ together,Love and God first. Wish I could time travel to tell people to enjoy every minute, and let them know what's coming
But they probably wouldn’t listen because they heard it from a boomer.
Bullying is wrong and no child should be bullied and picked on. Bully is abuse and teachers and parents need to put a stop to it.
I was bullied and to this day, I’m still hurting. These memories sting to this day.
No one Wanted to be bullied. It was a fact of life. Our teachers would break up fights and put bullies in check if they spotted it. That was one of the facts of life, too. The point of it all is we were expected to be a certain way. It was a matter of character building and/or survival. It shaped us.
Don't let that nonsense ruin your life. Try counseling therapy, gardening, yoga, something that will lift away that burden. Become free because you deserve peace.
Teachers can't stop bullying. Parents can but won't because they're the ones who teach their kids to be bullies in the first place... by being bullies themselves and bullying their kids. They teach them that they have no sense of self worth without intimidating those seen as weaker. Complain to a teacher, you'll still be seen as weak, still be a victim. Bullies' victims can stop it on a personal basis by standing up to them -- fight back once and they'll head for greener pastures. I can think of at least three kids who tried to bully me back in the day, had to fight them all, even ended up knocking one unconscious at Boy Scout camp. I got a few "talking to's" but never got in trouble for fighting back, for defending myself. I'm sorry you carry this pain with you because you weren't able to stand up for yourself.
I went to several different schools due to fathers career. Was bullied by twins, can still see their faces. So one day took an empty envelope to school and when they started I waved it in their faces and said I was going to the headmaster. That stopped them. Children need to be taught defence mechanisms to survive. Hope you seek help as it is a traumatic experience to deal with.
I was born after '64, so I am not a boomer. And I was bullied. I don't regret it. It helps to build character and make you both physically and mentally tougher. Yes, bullying is abuse, but it can be beneficial to the one being bullied.
I was born in 1959. We had a lot of fun in the 60s as kids where I lived, urban as it was.
1956 here...agree.
Born 1959, at 5/6 yrs old I was out before my parents were even awake for work, and made dens/forts, treehouses, rafts etc, climbed trees (and fell sometimes) got wet, muddy, scratched, battered and bloody. Then I would notice the sun lowering and begin the (oft times many miles) walk home for the evening meal. "Did you have fun", was the only query before cleaning up
I have neighbors who drove their kids to the school bus no matter the weather - two blocks, in a perfectly safe neighborhood. The parents, my age, grew up dirt poor and became well off. The kids are fat. Of course. I know a 30-something that works at the local grocery store. She lives 3 blocks away. She NEVER walks. She's overweight. Another worker lives about 5 blocks. He, too, never walks. Never bikes. He's gaining weight. I bike 2 1/2 miles to the store routinely and enjoy it. People think I'm a homeless bag lady.
In my safe neighborhood the bus picks the kids up at their door and drops them off there after school. Plus the kids who don't ride the bus wait in long lines so their parent can drop them off right at the front door of the school where a teacher or aid meets them to walk them into the building. Kids are coddled way to much today.
The last generation with Two Parents ... a Mother and a Father really made Boomers Boom and Thrive !
A lot of this content is not correct, most notably, mothers of baby boomers were not in the workforce. It was the women of the baby boomer generation who began to fill the workforce. They're children were more likely to be latch key kids.
TRUE.
True. As a Boomer, my mom was a stay-at-home mom and my family was a lot like the Leave it To Beaver or Father Knows Best TV shows. Of all my friends, the only mom I knew of who worked outside the home worked part time as an animal trainer.
Born in ‘52. My mom was a nurse and went to work when I was 18 months old. She worked days & dad worked night shift. Grandma lived around the corner, so that was a plus. They made it work. Happy childhood. Some of my childhood friends mother’s were in the workforce too during that time.
@@magicunicorn6535 You musta been one of those rich kids.
My mom worked!
I'm 75 this year, I relate to this. Bully was a hard on girls, I came home to an empty house, we played out side without parents or baby sitters. We had fun, but work was another thing, girls had a hard time getting a decent paycheck. Polio was a problem for people in the early 50s, I had it at the age of 4.
You arent a Boomer. You belong to The Silent Generation.
@@PollyPurree Yes, they actually are, I know it's surprising but oldest boomers are almost 80 years old, while don't agree with video them being toughest generation (Americans) I would say that belongs to the Greatest gen/ and early Slient generation. However I would say boomers are the forever young in some ways.
@@KCH55Boomers were born between 1954 and 1969. An 80 year old is The Silent Generation. The actual baby boom took place from 1956 to 1958 during 3 very cold winters.
@@PollyPurreeboomers were born between ‘46 and ‘64. She is most definitely a boomer.
@@vmj255 Wrong. The Baby Boom was in 1956, 57 and 58. There was no baby boom in 1946 after WW2 contrary to popular thought. She is The Silent Generation. I was born in 1957. Trust me. That's what those hippies were always called. Someone born in 1946, btw, is old enough to be the parent of someone born in 1964. Generations run every 15 years.
One of the biggest differences in "baby boomers" and the present run of children is much more time outdoors and much more moving about under our own power. The present children spend much more time indoors or inside motor vehicles and also even more screen time than the "baby boomers" did. Although many "baby boomers" did spend far too much time in front of a TV screen.
Also "baby boomers" spent more time interacting directly with people face to face whereas today's children spend time interacting with others via "smartphone" or "laptop".
Hard to say boomers had too much screen time when the screen was a small B and W TV with 3 channels. 😊
Obesity, and Type 2 diabetes is also a thing with millennials -gen alpha
A boomer is could get chunky, but they'd burn it off, riding bikes
So, they couldn't get
Type 2 diabetes
Plus..PE was MANDATORY
until the 1970s
I’m a boomer. And I don’t think so
We had it really good.
My grandfather from the silent generation grew up working hard on a farm and having very little food he only got to go to 8th grade. He had to drop out to help support the family
We were more active but we could be
If you are a boomer then you could not have a silent generation grandparent unless you were born when he was 36 years old or younger.. The silent generation were those born between 1928 and 1945. There are only 36 years between the oldest silent generation and the youngest boomer.
I WAS BORN IN DECEMBER 1944! WHAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THIS POST, WE, YES WE, FACED AS A BABY, GROWING YOUNGSTERS, LATCH-KEY KIDS, ETC!!! THE OUTSIDE WAS A WONDER!!! HORSEBACK RIDING FOR MILES AND HOURS ON END, OR GETTING IN THOSE BIKE RIDES, SWIMMING IN CREEKS, AND NO SMOG OR FEAR THAT WHAT WE ATE WAS NOT TAINTED!!! ❤❤❤
3:20 - Boomer here (born in 1957). We didn’t walk home to an “empty house” until high school. I think you have us mixed up with gen X. Our mothers didn’t work until at least junior high. I remember all through the 60s, it was rare to see a mother working. The reason why we got our homework done was because there were consequences for not getting it done. There was no grade inflation like there has been from 1980s forward. Homework was often graded and if you didn’t turn it in you got a zero. You get enough zeros, you can fail a class. Unlike today, it wasn’t unusual for people to get Cs, Ds and Fs. Unlike today, your final grade was heavily dependent on homework. No homework = F. Incomplete homework = D- All homework completed but with mistakes = C-, C, B, B- An A for a final grade was very, very difficult to get. To give you an idea of how inflated grades are now--my high school GPA was a 2.8 and I was in the top 1/4 of my class. There were only two students out of a graduating class of slightly over 500 who had a 4.0. Now everyone has between a 3.7-4.5 grade average. It is ridiculous
We're resilient and flexible. That's why we're still here, much to Gen Xers dismay.
As a gen-x builder and former caregiver to 100-yr-old grandma, I implore Boomers to consider the home staircase regarding their future resiliency and flexibility. I see a lot of denial frankly, with Boomers defiantly moving into multilevel homes and buying puppies. The chapters of our lives should not be turned in crisis.
I think Millennials and younger are far more flexible than we are. They have to change jobs and often entire careers more often than we did. As housing becomes ever less affordable, they've got a lot of challenges just finding a decent place to live. Some of the young people I know have survived by finding small niches in society and inventing jobs for themselves to fill them. I'm always impressed by their ingenuity.
I was born in the fifties, making me a boomer, and I think you layed the bull on, a really thick layer of bull.
As a girl growing up in Brooklyn, I never ever drank or got high on a date, or, at an event where there were boys present. There were two reasons for this. First, why would I possibly want to put myself in a position of vulnerability like that, and second, drunk or stoned girls were considered girls who didn’t respect themselves. “Cheap”. Today, I still believe in the first reason as it makes tremendous sense. The second reason, not so much as there are too many variables and abstract moral judgments attached.
As a boomer I'll say this, there has been a downward generational slide since the greatest generation, recently exacerbated by social media, which has greased the slide. Going downhill since the Sixties.
I'll vouch for that!
He mostly talks about the Silent Generation (1928-1946) than the Baby Boomers (1946-1964)
Check your statistics - I believe most kids in the 50s & early 60s did not experience both parents working outside the home. However, it was absolutely true that each child generally had chores to do at home, often to earn an allowance, but money or no, kids were expected to help with the household chores. Also true in your film, kids were sure as hell not coddled like they have been ever since. For example, the school was respected greatly by parents and not questioned; we knew if we got in trouble at school, we'd get in more trouble at home. The main thing is that there was not 8 BILLION people on the planet, the planet was not yet in its death throws, and there was no internet so kids got outside and had tons of friends.
I think the greatest generation was a lot tougher than us boomers.
You never missed dinner and no team played during dinner.
Not all boomers thrived and survived. Quite a few were traumatised by bullying and abuse at home which scarred them emotionally for life.
Traumatized/ bullying .Never ever heard those words before .Sometimes got beat up and sometimes gave them hell .Life lessons .
The Silent Generation outranks the Baby Boomers.
Silent Generation had a quiet decency and sense of compassion for others that Boomers sorely lack.