Why baby boomers' grandchildren will hate them

[dawg day]

52. "The Greatest Generation..." NOT remembered with reverence universally-

Many of us remember rather the parents who went through a depression and a world war and were shaped by the traumas... and also had us children early before they matured. Parenting then was expected to be more "strict" (read: brutal) and punishment could be very physical. In fact, many of the punishments the "GG" parents inflicted on us would be considered child abuse now.

If your boomer parents or grandparents whipped you with an electric cord, or drowned your baby kitten in front of you because it cried too much, well, probably you would think of that as abuse. We thought of it as "What Dad Is Allowed to Do to Us."

And if you want to go back to a world where there was a draft for all young men, where women were barred legally from many professions, where universities could refuse to admit people of color and women, where abortion was illegal and marital rape was legal, where there were "colored" restrooms and water fountains, where there was no environmental movement, well, yeah, keep hating on the boomers, because they helped to change all that.

There are now THREE generations after the Boomers. Once they stop blaming others, maybe they can take over and make great things happen. I'm rooting for you!