re: Why are Gen X such bad parents?

I'm GenX and I absolutely agree that my generation is partly responsible for the helicopter parenting phenomenon.

I was so under parented. Like so many Generation X kids, I had to figure things out on my own. My Dad worked all day and raised me by myself and I grew up FAST. It’s natural that I might over parent due to psychological overcompensation. Knowing that , and not wanting to be a helicopter parent because I think that hobbles children, I vowed to raise free thinking, independent, rule- breaking, outdoor 70s kids. Polite and ambitious, but fully on the let them have crazy freedom scale.My kids have all thanked me for letting them frick around and find out on their own. And I am fortunate that only two of the three of them dream of punching me.

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I was so under parented. Like so many Generation X kids, I had to figure things out on my own.

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Same. I was mostly raised by a single father. We stayed home alone after school and all summer.

I decided I wanted to give our kids much of the freedoms I had.

It's so foreign to me that the latchkey kids now won't let their kids roam the neighborhood unsupervised and install GPS tracking software on their cell phones.

That data looks like it would apply to Millennial parents. The problem is the school system. Across generations now, there has been more money pumped into education while outcomes have continued to decline. Parents are waking up and pulling their kids out of these schools. The schools are the problem.

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I'm GenX and I absolutely agree that my generation is partly responsible for the helicopter parenting phenomenon.

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Pendulum effect I guess. Gen x’s parents had to have a commercial every night to remind them they had kids and should know where they are. “It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your kids are?”

Goofy graph instead of 0-100%, graph goes from 55-95% so they can sensationalize. One of the huge drops is from 80% to 65%.

Hard to trust these stats when they obviously made them with an agenda. Are the gathering at the same schools, public school participants have changed massively in demographics.

I’m Gen X and my oldest is 8.

Gen X kids had minimal supervision. My parents rarely knew where I was and it worked for me. Doing the same for my kids to teach them independence and only one is on jail.

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Why are Gen X such bad parents?

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The lines on that chart took a dive when the Boomers were fully in power. It's the Boomers fault.

Idk but they suck donkey balls as parents. Ridiculous names also