Dear Millenials: Your Parents Lied to You
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Dear Millenials: Your Parents Lied to You
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#2True enough, I guess, but this seems like a bunch of complaining. It doesn't really provide any measures to improve the situation.
Also, I don't understand the part about said kids having had "adult responsibilities" - wouldn't that create the opposite kind of person, one who can take failure? Perhaps it was ironic.
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#3Who are preferable, today's "helicopter parents" or the "because I say so" parents of the previous generation?
Or the "Beat you till you cry" parents of the generation before.
Or the "Off to the factory, brat" parents, etc.
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#4Millenials, those born between '78 and '95
That's shifted a good five or ten years back from what I thought. I was born in '82; my parents are Boomers. I thought that made me Generation X.
I. . . I don't want to be a Millenial.
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#5I think a related problem is that college professors are usually soft. I have been in a number of classes where a group of students take control and demand a curve, or an extension of a project, and in their defense, why not? Many if not most professors will cave.
The best classes were usually taught by strict professors with the confidence to stick up for their original lesson plan.
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#6I think a related problem is that college professors are usually soft. I have been in a number of classes where a group of students take control and demand a curve, or an extension of a project, and in their defense, why not? Many if not most professors will cave. The best classes were usually taught by strict professors with the confidence to stick up for their original lesson plan.
I think a related problem is that he is interacting with "PR majors".
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#7Millenials, those born between '78 and '95 That's shifted a good five or ten years back from what I thought. I was born in '82; my parents are Boomers. I thought that made me Generation X. I. . . I don't want to be a Millenial.
Generation X came of age in the early 90s. They're the kurt cobain generation. I was born in '86, I've always considered myself a millenial and never saw a problem with it.
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#8I wonder how much of this is regional? I was born in the late 80s and didn't experience any of the coddling people associate with my generation. Is it because I grew up in MN? Did any other HNers grow up in the same time/place? (Yes, I know, I'm young and still growing up).
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#9Millenials, those born between '78 and '95 That's shifted a good five or ten years back from what I thought. I was born in '82; my parents are Boomers. I thought that made me Generation X. I. . . I don't want to be a Millenial.
Not claiming any expertise, but a data point for you: I was born in '84 and I have zero identification with Gen X.
We had AIM in high school, Facebook in (some of) college, and MTV had already mostly stopped playing music videos when we became aware of it.
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#10Somewhat tangentially, I had very few writing teachers/profs that forced me to write better. The ones that did were not the hard-asses willing to bruise my ego and fill the page with red ink; they were the ones who could destroy my thesis and render my examples impotent with 3 comments at the end of the paper.
Invariably, if I got a teacher/prof who bled all over my creations, I'd start with B-s at the beginning and end up with As by the end. I didn't improve my writing. I just figured out the teachers pet peeves and learned to work around them. My teachers were invariably smarter and more experienced than me when dealing with the subject at hand, but that doesn't prevent them from being flesh-and-blood people with idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies.
I'd love to believe I'm just a millenial who could stand to learn at lot from an ego-crushing set of experiences, but just because a person hurts your feelings doesn't make them a better teacher.