10 Baby Boomers Life Choices, That Are NOW REJECTED
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The generational divide has never been greater, and society today seems as if it's coming apart at the seams. Families, careers, friendships, and even finances are affected by this shift, and certain baby boomer life choices have been completely rejected. I’m in favor of at least considering bringing back some of these decisions, so be sure to let me know what you think in the comments.
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In my first ten years, life consisted of quality time with family - going out to parks, joyriding through the rural backroads, and spending weekend occasions with grandparents. Education begins in early childhood: growing up in the real world and learning how to love one another are examples of what Mommy and Daddy taught you. I know, I’m a Gen-X myself, 1975. Big Thanks! ☺️
I agree!
Can you imagine financially strapped young families being able to take "joyrides" these days, with the cost of gas?
I'm a Gen-X too, my parents were from the Silent Generation. Mum and I still take joyrides around because they're cheaper than going to crap movies or to a shitty restaurant. Financially strapped young families should take a few joyrides; a joyride can be only 2-3 miles to see what's around you. A joyride is still cheaper than ordering out for dinner and then calling it a night. The tip costs more than the gas money! Stick the plugholes (kiddies) in bed after your shitty movie and call it a night, that's the mantra of today's Gen-Y and Gen-Z.
Born in 59 ….our America is long gone
Glad to have grown up when I did
Amen! 61
1958 for me. SO blessed to have been born then! A golden time gone forever!
1949 ... and I am very saddened about what our beloved country has become.
@@Doc_Dolan Yup!
I was born in 78 but i miss my childood and how it was back then. It saddens me more than anything. Im in shock everyday when i turn on the news or just go out in public for that matter.
Thanks for outlining the toilet the world has become. I thank my Lord I got the chance to live the life of 'a boomer'. God help the generation of today!
A toilet indeed. No, make that a full-on sewer. As someone who grew up in the mid 60-'s to 70's, I don't even recognize this world anymore.
I always say “Thank God I’m old.”
@@Linda7647 Grew up somewhat earlier and you're right on. We're bombarded with an amount of choices and stimuli that would have been a madhouse nightmare 50-60 years ago. Politics, entertainment, every sphere you can imagine.........no privacy, no backbone, no propriety, no dignity, no self-sacrifice, no holds barred. Entitled wokies getting far more air time than they deserve.
oh a fake sky daddy did that for you? LOL ok whatever.
@@lilsheba1 You've got the right attitude for today's world, kiddo. No run along and be a good little Satan's helper!🤣
1962 here, tail end Baby Boomer. Had a great childhood, not a want for anything. Mom stayed home and took care of us three kids, cooked and cleaned. Dad worked, but he also helped around the house. Kids did too. It was a great childhood, no computers, only 5 channels of TV, low to no crime, remember playing soldier all day (yes with toy guns) or riding bike all day and coming home at lunch then back out side. Baseball, Football, Basketball, fishing, camping, model rocketry (with no need for adults), model airplane on a string. No worries at all, life was good, not to mention the best rock music of the 70's...Beatles, Stones..those were the days I want to go back...
I’d never give up my childhood. Both my parents worked and did weekend chores, my older sister and I were the daily maids (lol). I loved dinner time talks, Saturday morning cartoons, Wonderful World of Disney, and staying out until the lights came on, and so many others. While my kids had the same rules I did, they will never know the freedom we had, nor the innocence.
@@truthtell4life Boomers were not anywhere near as entitled as genzers my friend...and I was not spoiled and worked hard my entire life, something that my parents taught me.
@@truthtell4life I didn’t know any kids who grew up wealthy. I had friends who were well-off financially, but it was far from wealthy or rich. Most people back then came from backgrounds with very little and learned how to build it. My parents had good jobs, but they paid average for this time, and my mom was college educated, but it was very difficult to move up for females in the 60’s and even into the 70’s. I knew several kids who was extremely spoiled, but it was never an issue. Most of us back then, and the ones I know today, were just average and tried to pass on what morals and values our parents taught us. I personally don’t know one single “Boomer” who feels entitled (although I know many from younger generations who do). We were given a life that was typical for that time and then grew up. My sons were brought up with almost the same rules I had, and now their children are being brought up the same way, with adjustments for the time period. You can’t blame an entire generation for how your life turned out, only you can change your path. Was our childhood all sunshine and rainbows? Nope. But we chose to remember the good times. And we never blamed the older generations for what we didn’t have.
@@sam6235 Well said, well said...
@@truthtell4life I have three daughters and they all went to college and have jobs and are out of the house...
I am a baby boomer 1957. I miss the family around the dinner table. Riding my bike for miles a day. Playing with friends until the street lights came on. I couldn’t wait to get my drivers license! The classroom portion and behind the wheel were part of our school curriculum. I never got money from my parents for all the cleaning and babysitting my sisters. I cleaned houses and babysat until I turned 16. Went to work at McDonald’s. That money bought me clothes and accessories, gas, money to go see a movie or other entertainment. I did marry my high school sweetheart. We got engaged six months out of high school. Married at age 20. We built our first house the first year of marriage. I paid for most of the wedding and he saved for the house. A year after moving into our house our daughter was born. Hubby and I didn’t go to college. We both had good jobs with excellent healthcare benefits. We took classes later. I feel bad using cash at stores or other places. I have a debit card but my motto was if I don’t have cash for something then I don’t get it. When I worked at McDonald’s we had to count back change to the customer. Now, they just plop the change in your hand. We have some places here that are cashless already. I am old school. Prefer to use cash first.
Me too! I refuse to do online banking too! 😊
I also prefer to use cash.
This sounds just like my life
growing up. We had such a awesome childhood 😊
I'm presently 42 (*so much younger than many people on this thread probably?), but I don't get that about preferring cash??; because debit is the same as cash (*assuming your debit account doesn't have a reserve credit line attached to it, right?)
@@Remy4489 I find that if I use a credit card or a debit card (which I do use), I tend not to watch my spending. I guess it's a matter of discipline.
As an Eisenhower era Boomer, I can say with certainty that the grass was indeed greener and the sky bluer.
Yeah, gotta love the Military Industrial Complex... 🤞🤯👍
I'm a retired child therapist. Family dinner, age appropriate chores, outdoor unsupervised free play, sharp limits on screens, regular mealtimes and bedtimes, with plenty of sleep... those things alone would decrease child and adolescent mental health issues by a lot.
And in some places, it’s literally against the law for children to play in their own yard unsupervised.
@@bonniegaither3994 Unfortunately, kidnapping happens too often in the US for that to always be safe.
It won't help the kids who are abused tho. And I agree kids need to go outside more but when you have crazy people kidnapping kids from their driveways it's perfectly understandable why parents don't want their kids go outside by themselves anymore. We need to bring back those sense of communities again. I remember my grandfather telling me how the apartment complex he lived in knew everyone so you couldn't get away with nothing lol. We need to bring this back
I grew up in the 1970s. Free time, some freedoms. A lot of time spent at my maternal grandparents(across the ballfield) in their in-ground pool, bike was my independence(vehicle for/of), going to Monson Free Library(Monson, MA), Firth's(store, restaurant), Armata's Supermarket. I learned how to shovel snow(long sidewalk) and use the phone book, rotary/push button phones. Physical card catalogs in libraries. I had my Library Card at three(Mom taught me to read, early) at three years old. I live next door in Palmer and their Library is fabulous, too! Fantastic staff, electronic card catalog, inter-library loans, getting "hold" reserving books, media) is fabulous!
I was born in 1955. And had the best childhood ever. Riding our bikes to the public pool and all over the neighborhood. So much fun! ❤
Oh I set up Evil Knievel bike jumps over the pool!
1961. We rode a few miles to get to Whittier narrows. Spent all day riding around the lakes then back home just B4 dusk. Never had trouble never thought my own children would never know such freedom. They do gather their own families around the table every evening for dinner.
It was so much fun going outside to play whenever we wanted. The adults in the neighborhood always kept an eye on things and would intervene if necessary. But usually we would handle things on our own. That's how we learned.
Growing up as a boomer, it’s no surprise that I did family dinners, we all ate together a home-cooked meal. Once I was a mother with children of my own, I continued that tradition we all ate at the table and I made a homemade dinner rarely did we go out.
Agreeing 100% with @carol, as kids many things were "too expensive," and we just DIDN'T do them. We ate out maybe once a month. Of course in the early '60s "eating out" was pretty much one of "a bucket of chicken from Kentucky Fried Chicken" or "Chinese Take out." There really wasn't a lot of fast food back then.
@@josephgaviota fast food for me and my friends was a rave, micky D's...Wetsons...Mazaratzi's!😎💯💫👍!
Those really were the good old days and I think people were much happier then. Today some young people have more mental problems than back then.
Not true. There was a high amount of mental health issues back then. Just the social stigma around it has changed. For ex, shell shocked was used for soldiers coming back from war. We now call it PTSD. And many people who had depression or schizophrenia were locked up in insane asylums aka mental health institutions to be never discussed again by family. Humans have had mental health issues for centuries just now we have somewhat better understanding of them to create medication and therapies.
@@Raja-bz4yw Partly true, but only partly.
I’m a baby boomer, born 1953. Live was simpler then. We could not watch TV while eating and we all ate together at dinner table as a family every day. We played outside for hours and did not like staying in the house.
Baby Boomer, 1960s kid. We watched tv on Saturday mornings, with the tv stand/and at times, tv dinners. I would go for bike rides around town(Monson, MA) and learn phone numbers, zip codes. I still use those skills today!
The segment about credit cards, the very high interest rates vs we "oldsters" buying what we can afford ... that was a GREAT contrast.
My grandmother(maternal) told me to ignore the offers for free stuff in the ads for credit cards, in my college book bag. I took her advice. No debt there.
Cellphone have replaced real communication
There's truth to that.
I was at a sandwich shop the other day, and two nice young teens, a boy and girl, were sitting at a small table. Rather than staring deeply into the eyes of one another, they were both on their phones, texting away. How sad.
@@josephgaviota Who knows what they were texting to each other. Probably talking about other people they were surrounded by. I've seen it happen before.
@@sj122s Of course I can't know what they were texting about.
It's just that it seems staring into the eyes of a girl would be better than staring onto a small screen; all things being equal.
I drive a elementary school bus and most of the kids do not own a bicycle but they all have smartphones.
I bought my nephew a bicycle for Christmas a couple years back. He refuses to learn to ride. He is now 10. I learned when I was 6 and was ridiculed for taking so long by my friends. Rather sad the direction we've gone.
Glad my girls love riding their bikes. And they don’t get screen time unless it’s super classic cartoons like Scooby doo Care Bears and my little pony oh and the old Superbook and flying house from the 80s. But that’s when I’m cleaning so I can’t take them outside. But lately they rather do puzzles and art and crafts
Roads nowadays are more hostile to bikers than in the past. They are wider and built mainly for car traffic often without any protected bike lanes, so bikers feel unsafe having to share them with cars travelling several times their speed and weighing orders of magnitude more.
@chetthebee: i had a boomer friend whose 2 kids never learned to ride bikes and i was floored lol
A kid from the 50s here. Childhood was awesome in the 50s and 60s. The best decade of TV was the 60s. Having a bike was your freedom which later became your car and yes, chomping at the bit to get that learners permit was real. I actually wore the tread off of more than one set of bike tires. We ate what we were served in our house and there was no eating anywhere except at the dinner table.
I was not given an allowance. My parents didn't feel they should be paying us for chores that we were responsible for keeping up as that is part of family responsibilities. Can't remember how many times I heard things like "I don't get paid to cook your food or do your laundry, do I?" I had to earn money by what is called gig work now. I went around the neighborhood offering to do things for people like mowing grass, cleaning out garages, washing cars and painting for example. There was competition so, you better be good if you want to become someone's regular. I got my first job as soon as I was eligible by age.
Married in the early 70s we had to follow a budget. We didn't have credit cards. We carried a calculator with us to the grocery store to make sure we didn't get more than the cash we had in our pocket. We drove clunker cars I busted more than a few knuckles constantly repairing. Life was grand.
I grew up doing and enjoying all of these things - family dinnertime, outdoor activity with friends, long term jobs with close coworkers. The common thread was VALUING in person interaction. Life is short! We lose family and friends all too soon and often unexpectedly. Quality time spent with them is far more important than anything on your phone.
Not all of us are so fortunate to have families who we actually want to be around or can tolerate for more than a few minutes.
I'm a 1958 vintage, and I remember putting my Schwinn Stingray away, coming in for dinner around the table, then watching Andy Griffith, Batman, etc, on one of the 3 channels we got! It's scary to think kids today might be claiming 50 years from now that the 2010's and 2020's were great years to grow up. I don't even want to think what life might be like then!
I have a granddaughter who was born in the 2000s and she loves to watch Andy Griffith.
This video was spot on! My husband and I are retired, but we still sit down to the dinner table every night. We married right out of high school and have been together for 58 years. As kids we roamed the streets all summer; however there were so many of us in those days that we always played in groups. I remember at one point growing up there were 85 kids on our block! Today with fewer kids it’s not as safe and moms aren’t always home like they were back in the day. I couldn’t wait to get my driver’s license when I turned 16, but my 16 year old granddaughter doesn’t even have a learner’s permit. We bought our first home at age 25 after my husband spent 4 years in the service. It wasn’t great, but it was what we could afford, and we bought it with a G. I. loan and no down payment. We later sold it for a nicer home in a better neighborhood, then sold that one and bought our current home that is mortgage free. We both worked for the same company for years and were able to retire early. I am so glad I grew up when I did, and am proud of my “Baby Boomer” ideals and values. They have served me well.
When I was a child in the early 1970's children would be outside riding bikes, playing football etc. and visiting friends😃I don't ever see children playing outside anymore😫I'm glad I grew up when I did😁ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
Now people call 911 because the kids are unsupervised.
Visiting nearby grandparents(maternal), biking around town, library, getting chewing gum at the nearest store. We would have to be in by dinner time. A lot of freedom! And responsibility. I learned(with Mom's help) to read at age three, and have had a library card since then. I still make use of it in Palmer, I grew up next door, in Monson. Both in Massachusetts.I am 60 now.
Married at 20. Fifty years together last week… faith, family, friends. Our oldest is 46… youngest is 24. Eight altogether.
Wow. My maternal grandparents were married for thirty-eight years, happily. I lived with my Mom's parents as a teen/young adult, a great experience!
I’m not a Boomer, but my Mom and Dad are. I was born in 1974, but everything in this video is how I was raised. I was so blessed that my Mom stayed home and raised my brother and I. I wouldn’t change my childhood for anything.
Very good Andy! That very same here except from the same era as your grand-parents.
Re: the current generation not having kids: This is most likely due to them not being able to afford having a child. The cost of having a child now has increased very dramatically from the baby boom generation.
1956 here. I started making my own money when I was 10, at 15 I was selling Fuller brush door to door. At 17 I bought a brand new car and bought my first house at 23.
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I was born in 1961, and I miss those days of long ago. GREAT music, movies and people were nice, and kids were taught to be polite and respectful to each other and their elders. Best times for kids to have grown up in.
I was also born in 1961. It was a great time to be a kid (at least for me)! I had wonderful memories enjoying my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and family. A number of them have passed away 😢. But I’m grateful for all the wonderful memories that God has blessed me with, and continues to bless me each and everyday!😇🙌👏. I’m also grateful for my siblings 🥰!!!
Malls! Radio Shack, Orange Julius, The Flaming Pit(the now, demolished Eastfield Mall in Springfield, MA), hearing popular songs on the amped-up radios, "Love's Theme" from Barry White, Captain & Tenille, The Hustle, Steiger's, Friendly's, what a fun place! Shop, eat, socialize, all under one roof, climate-controlled, fabulous!
1969, here. Gen-X. This video brings back many memories. Sadly, the world I grew up in is over. Now we live in this modern dystopia.
@MGAC1701 Same here, Born 1969 and a proud member of Gen-X. I miss the good ol’ days where things were so simple and fun. I don’t recognize the Canada I grew up in anymore, it has become a tyrannical regime ran by woke ideology.
@@TheAMBULOCETUS you mean run by fascists' ideology like trump.
Many of these still occurred during Gen X.
The only sane generation left at this point.
@@RetroMMA💯
If you consider picking your nose at the dinner table acceptable.
We are always overlooked. The boomers had millennials. So their grandchildren are these children of today that don’t do anything. Says a lot without saying anything..
@@RetroMMA hey hey there, not true
I live on a lake and every morning go on my patio to drink my coffee and watch the ducks and herons and listen to the birds.Most people that I see come by the water just sit and stare at their phones.They don't understand how important connecting to nature is 🦆🦆
That's sad. I've seen people like this while out hiking. They have music blaring from their phones while out in the woods.
Same phenomenon as people sticking up their phones to record a concert or fireworks that they will never look at again when they are actually THERE in person. Enjoying the moment in real time seems to be lost anymore.
I can't stand people that have to play music at the beach or while hiking!
Absolutely! When my husband and I go for our walks, we take in all the nature, flowers, listen to the birds. We pass by people just staring at their phones and not even noticing any of the beauty around them.
I’m the end of baby boomers, 1965. My generation was THE last to enjoy a fun free childhood. My baby brother was the beginning of the next generation. They destroyed family’ gatherings. ‘Family’ restaurants. Now all ‘fast food’ places. We need to bring back family oriented activities.
Me too -- born in 65 and my sister was born in 1969, The difference in the culture we were raised in, even though we had the same parents and everything, made us very different adults. There was no victim mentality for me; there was for her generation. Brand name culture was getting its claws into teenagers by the early 70s. Thank goodness I was already secure in the teaching that labels didn't matter. I could go on, but you all lived it and know what I'm saying. This generation is being raised in a moral vacuum and a societal morass of bitterness, hatred and victim-hood. I pray for and fear for the next generation, I truly do.
It’s not GEN X that destroyed anything, it’s the baby boomers kids the millennials who were brought up selfish, where women had no rights and where domestic violence was just accepted. Gays were hated as was anyone who wasn’t white, male, Christian , married and straight. Baby boomers destroyed the environment , Gen X got left with the mess
Printing photos and family albums is a lost art.
As a Gen Xer, most of these things were still normal in my family.
I'd love to see station wagons and simple work trucks (with "wing windows") make a comeback!
Born in 57, breakfast, lunch, and dinner together at the table. Friends played after school football, catch,or gathered to watch TV, wild wild west, Batman and Robin. Back home at dark. Had a great childhood.
My wife and I still down at the dinning room table for our meals and talk about our day. When are sons was still at home all his friends said 'I wish my family did this".
We make dinner every night and eat together at the table too❤
I was born in 1951 my Dad was a Marine and my Mom worked in a War Plant making bombs. But they loved us very much we had a great time. 😊
My life very much follows the Boomer model described in this video. I was born in 62. I was raised in a rural community where most mothers stayed at home. Five thirty was supper time. On Sunday we'd go to church and then go to my great-grandparent's house with a lot of other relatives. The cigarette smoke was thick and the coffee pot was always on. Just about all the men with blue-collar jobs I knew back then had one primary job and some sort of sideline. My father fixed lawn mowers, an uncle welded, another uncle cut wood, and another uncle fixed cars. The rich kids didn't work on the farms but most of the kids from modest families worked at least seasonally on farms. I started picking strawberries at a farm when I was nine, and I worked at an orchard when I was a teenager. For years I saved all the money I could and I got my license and my first car when I was 16. I got married and bought my first house at 25, we have one daughter. I have worked for the same company for 39 years. Most of the kids I knew growing up bought houses in their 20s, had kids in their 20s or 30s, and have had very successful lives. So, I think that Boomer life plan, work hard, save your money, get married, buy a house, have kids, worked out pretty well.
Not a baby boomer, but an elder millennial. Of all the ideas listed, I could only fully agree with having dinner together as a family. I don't think some of the ideas listed as being "rejected" is very fair to the current/post-boomer generation. The perception of being constantly glued to smartphones and citing as examples the waiting room at a medical appointment and the DMV? These are not places where people are often in the mood to chat and socialize, boomers included. Isn't that the reason there are often magazines in the waiting rooms? Staring at your smartphone while waiting to be seen at an appointment is no different from reading a magazine. I am also fairly certain that the post-boomer generation is just as eager to own their own home/place and be independent (financially and otherwise) from their parents. The current housing market makes this goal basically impossible for the post-boomer generation. A "starter home" isn't some post-boomer generation fad; it is something sorely lacking in the current housing market thus making it difficult for the post-boomer generation to be able to be first time homeowners. When an average home costs upwards of 650k in some areas, how can you expect the post-boomer generation to not chase the higher income? I am sure many of the post-boomer generation would love to just settle for a job getting paid bimonthy with a pension if that job can actually provide an income that would enable them to be homeowners.
I'm Gen X, I'm cool right here in the middle. Doing it quietly while observing and learning. 🤙
Common sense and dialog are not dead. (I googled it) 😉
I was born in 1954 and agree with you 100%!
Thank you.
But doesn't explain why you see them walking down the street with their face glued to their phone.
My parents paid $27,000 for their house in 1964. Today that house can be listed for over $1,000,000.
Dinner was on the table at 6:00 because dad demanded it be there even after mom working all day,too. But it was consistent.
Lots of "dads" demanded too much too often. It may have been the way things were back then but wrong just the same.
I’m a Gen X, I still spend time with my family at the dinner table. I miss working at companies that would promote you within the company and not hire outside executives to their senior positions, cough Target! Also I miss when people applied to jobs in person, and not online to a bunch of websites, and we meet people in real life!
1961 here. What I recall, that is quite a change, is that the nuclear family only had one bread winner - the man.
The wife stayed home because the husband's salary was enough. The wife stayed home and was cleaning, cooking and caring for the kids.
Nowadays it's daycare for rhe kids because the mom has to work too so they can afford that new overpriced SUV, the wifi and a new 70" flatscreen.
I miss family dinner - my mom was a really good cook.
Putting women in the workplace essentially doubled available workers and therefore drove down wages to the point that husband and wife both had to work just to make ends meet. Thanks ladies...
Many families had ONE car. Pretty much EVERYONE had ONE TV. There were no such things as cell phones, cable TV, nobody had 3 or 4 TVs in the house," it was just different in so many ways.
@@josephgaviota Ah yes, I remember the one TV. And what was showing? Whatever Dad said it was. No argument.
Luckily my dad was a Mechanical Engineer, so he always wanted the new tech. We were the first on our block to get the colour TV.
And the first Microwave Oven. Batman IN COLOUR!
@@PJAvenger And as kids, WE were the remote control. Hey Joey, put it on Channel 2. I envy you for watching batman in color 🙂
@@josephgaviota 2, 4 or 7 - until it's The Wild World of Sports
We bought groceries and cooked and ate at home
I still do that. I can’t bear restaurant food. 🤮
We sat down as a family and ate as a family. Plus, we ate what was served. Honestly, technology has ruined the essence of being a family. 🙁
Thank you for going back to the good old days. 😊
_... we at what was served ..._
True. If we didn't like what was for dinner tonight ... oh well ... there's always tomorrow night. My mom said "Eat what I make, I'm not a short order cook."
I'm Gen X (1977), and had a single mom working 2 jobs to get by. However, I grew up with most of these as well cos I had a family that had my mom's back. So as mom worked I had those family dinners & running around the neighborhood on my bike. But I also sat down with my mom at the table on Sat as she paid the bills. She filled out the checks & I stuffed and licked the envelope. I watched as she deducted each from the check register. She taught me how to budget my monthly expenses at a young age. McD's was a 1-2 times a year treat, not an every day/week thing. I didn't get the best of clothes.... most of the time they were hand me downs from my cousins OR bought from Goodwill (or another 2nd hand store). This is why today I can live contentedly on SSI-Disability today. Be happy with you have, and live within your means.
Baby Boomers attended church regularly. So often the boomers church was a huge part of their social connections.
Yeah, boomers were definitely big on going to church but still living like devils. Total hypocrites. 😂
Boy, that video was so spot on. It's sad for future generations
3:20 I fully agree, from the day we turned 15, _ALL_ we could think about was being 15-½ so we could get our learners permit, and DRIVE. My first vehicle was older than me, a '55 Chevy pickup I bought for $300-and drove for YEARS.
I graduated HS in 75' one of the first cars I looked at to buy was a 57' Ply. Fury. a 66' T-Bird, a 69' Charger. Ended up buying a 69' Ply Road Runner with a 383. My first actual car was a Hand me down 65' Barracuda.
They were the best days growing up in the 60’s. So easy to follow in my mom’s footsteps. I was able to be a stay at home mom, not without sacrifice of course. 😊 always family meals together. I hope my kids follow in my footsteps.
1968 here Gen X by 4 years, my parents divorced in the first state that declared no fault divorce, latch key kid by 7, main baby sitter was TV , we could be out at all hours and no supervision whatsoever. Life wasn’t a rose garden to quote a famous 70s song😅. A lot of heavy drinking of hard liquor, by the adults. No one cussed back then though, (not like today anyway) and I’m glad I was raised without that habit. No one got tattoos except bikers and drug addicts. School administrators mostly understood school was about reading, writing and arithmetic. I got my license nearly on my 16th birthday. I just barely passed my exam with the minimum of 70 percent but I passed lol 😂
Companies have done away with 2 week vacation (now lump vacation and sick time together....call it "pto" and often starts out as 5 days for the whole thing). Companies also did away with pensions. You can invest in an IRA yourself, but your retirement is not guaranteed if the market tanks.
Finally, if insurance is offered, it is often prohibitively expensive for the employee (my 30 yo daughter's insurance for self, husband and child was 1000.00 a month at previous job). That's insane. If companies would go back to offering vacation, pensions and affordable insurance, employees would stay. There is no incentive to do so, though. The employee is expendable, so why should they respond with loyalty?
I agree that we should be spending more time with each other, however, video games and smartphones came into being on OUR watch. So as a baby boomer, I have to wonder how much I added to what is wrong now.
Yeah, another thing you don’t see baby-boomers doing is filming their meals. My wife and I have a rule, no phones at the dinner table, especially in a restaurant. We feel if you can’t put it down for thirty or forty minutes and enjoy the company and food, you don’t need to eat with us.
Back in the 60s the streets were much safer why, because ever cop carried a "Billy club". Bring 'em back.
And they were not bullied out of using it by the woke media and their woke bosses.
I had different containers for cash. One for gas, one for food, one for “extras” like dinner out or a movie. If the container was empty we didn’t go out.
Born June 1956; always had breakfast and dinner as a family unit. Knew everyone within a mile radius as a kid 8 to 18 yrs. Played everyday outside even if a foot of snow was everywhere. Today I never take a smart phone anywhere. A flip phone always. Most people are totally addicted to their smartphone and will panic without it! The 21st century sucks !
I knew people who panicked during the pandemic who forgot their masks.
I use my smartphone for my grocery list and that’s about all I use it for.
Wow, this was scathing! I’m not a boomer - Gen X here - but while I agree with a lot that you mentioned, I disagree with some of it. I’m not from the US, so I can’t comment on some of the points; however, where I live, owning a home is swiftly becoming a dream for most people. Housing prices are off the charts. I was lucky and managed to get into the market way before it left the rails. Where I live, you need to have an income of at least $130,000 a year in order to qualify for a mortgage - and the home you’ll get for that is pretty crappy. It is sad to know that my kids may never be able to own a home. Even rental prices are out of control. A one bedroom apartment costs on average $2000/month here. On top of that, paying off student loans has become a lifelong endeavour for some people. When I graduated university and got a job, the business of paying off my loans started. They weren’t paid off til I was 36. And I didn’t go to concerts because I couldn’t afford them. The housing market, cost of groceries, sky-high student loans etc are why a lot of people look for jobs that will pay them more and more - and why a lot of people end up back home with mom and dad. With what I was making with my job out of university (and I’m a teacher), I would not have been able to afford rent and paying back student loans if prices were like they are now. And the starting salary for teachers where I’m from hasn’t really improved a whole lot in the last 25 years. Sometimes, we lose the score and don’t think all the way through an argument with logic. Again, I can’t comment on the US cause I don’t live there. However, here, it is grim. Yes: we eat dinner together pretty much every night and I feel like I failed at something as a mom when we don’t eat dinner together. We tried to raise our daughter “free range”, but that came to a crashing halt with covid…as did the lack of screen time we were giving her. We have held onto some of the traditions from our boomer parents, but others were stolen from us. And it does make me sad: but I don’t blame the kids.
I was born in 1958. Lived on a 40 acre farm. As kids up in the yard with sheds and detached buildings we played hide and seek. Everyone remembers the slip and slides back then. Until I saved up enough for a real one I would put a long green sheet of plastic on the lawn with the water hose running on it and just slide across it on a hot day. The latter 60s. What Memories.
As a kid in 1970s, if you told your parents you wanted to go to another room in the house to eat dinner by yourself, they would have thought something was seriously wrong with you. But today, that’s perfectly normal.
The trades, welders, electricians, plumbers are retiring at a rate higher that the trade schools are cranking out their replacements. Rather than learn to repair a vehicle, air conditioning/heating system or operate a lathe the youths are attracted to some pointless political correctness courses that the college has sold them on. Furthermore, can anyone cook a meal like mom did? Another lost art.
We need to revive industrial arts education.
Yes, bring back vocational high schools and teach some of those trades that are still needed but are slowly dying because there aren't people trained to do them.
Exactly!
@@cynthiawilliams3213 The problem is that when many schools got rid of shop classes, we have a generation gap of people not trained in these arts.
I went to my cousin's wedding around 2014, where we were seated with her friend, the friend's husband, and their two young school age children. They all pulled out screen devices and *refused* to participate in any conversation. I felt it was rude not to at least try to converse.
And I've heard a few younger people complain that Boomers should give up their houses so their generation can have them. I can still mow my lawn, take care of my yard, and make small repairs. We worked HARD to get those houses. We're not leaving them til we must.
But I'm liking Gen Z. All that stuff you said about the younger generation that expects everything handed to them- I don't see that. I see a lot of hard workers who work smarter, not harder, and want a good work/ life balance. There's always a few weasels in every generation, ours as well.
Thank you for making sense and not being trapped in nostalgia.
I have neighbors and others I know that are the same way. They can't carry on a conversation with you without getting on their phones. It's so rude. They would rather do that than to have conversation with another person. I hate it.
Daily meals w family was so important in our family, my grandparents would even come over at least once a month for Sunday dinner back in the 1960's
Born in 1958 I must say that digital technology coupled with the pandemic have destroyed human interaction. It's so sad.
Nah it really hasn't, it's brought a lot of people together because of technology.
@@lilsheba1 I believe what they meant was that it has destroyed the one on one, and the being really present with another person. And they are right. People today would rather text, than to call and speak with a person. Or go and see them. People are together, but not really together, as they are always with their noses in their phones, instead of interacting with one another. It has made things a whole lot more impersonal.
Spot on, I could not agree more!!
Born 1961 and the youngest of 6 boys. My first 10 years were great then my brothers got into the hippie movement then family life went downhill with my parents divorcing in 1973. Then I married in 1987 my wonderful wife who grow up in a very stable and loving midwestern town. We had 3 boys and we instilled in them the need to eat meals together, pray and attend church, play hard outside, be responsible and honest. Thankfully they grew up to have their families well adjusted and loving.
Even with a budget the price of everything going up and pay staying stagnant has made budgeting quite difficult.
Bore in 53 and I am glad. I am guilty of looking at my cell phone too much. But wish these phones were never invented. I am always noticing people with their faces in their phones. It’s sad the amount of time that is lost between all the family members not interacting with each other. The breakdown of the family is the downfall of a country. And look where we are. Good video thanks for sharing.
Food used to require work and families were grateful to have it if your parents grew up in the great depression. You sat at the table and gave thanks. My dad always reminded us that his family only had meat on Sunday !
Thanks Rec Road for the memories of a baby boomer!😎💯💥👍✌!
So so true. You hit the nail on the head with this video.
I came a long mid baby boom, i remember riding and picking wild berries picking cherries from an abandoned orchard, fishing in creeks , being responsible for my sister. Riding bikes to school or walking and joking with friends.
Missing the old days…Not a boomer here. Born in ‘65
I’m 55 and can relate to everything in this video, I’m so glad I had a childhood like that. One huge improvement with life these days is online banking, bill paying and extended shopping hours, when I was a kid banks closed at 4pm Mon-Fri and stores closed at 12 noon on a Saturday and closed Sunday so I guess our parents had to be very organised, mind you we had checks to pay with if you missed the bank. Our parents didn’t drive us anywhere unless it was raining, we went everywhere on our bikes, no wonder we were skinny kids
I like all of these. But to be fair, many doctor and dentist offices no longer have magazines in the waiting rooms. So phones are the only option.
I usually bring my own magazine with me. One that I enjoy, as usually the Dr office or Dental doesn't have anything that interests me. Not hard to bring reading material with you.
1961 , have always been proud to a boomer
The work ethic of the youngest generation becoming adults is pretty abysmal.
This is a feel good channel and I love watching the videos but I have to be honest and say that the "choices" today and the way society and families (don't) interact or have dinner together, etc., just SUCKS!! Sorry to bring a negative vibe to the comments but it's true, they SUCK!! We definitely did things better overall, we weren't perfect but at least we would admit to that. Today, everyone thinks they're right and they refuse to listen to a different idea or concept. OK, I had to say that. Thank you. 🙏
I'm 38 and I do all of this.
I work, and so does my husband. For years I was a housewife and my husband worked that's when we laid the ground that we have dinner at the table together and we have a tidy home and we always have clean clothes to wear everyday we did theses things and I have to say we feel very happy and share a deep love that endures many challenges. We were 23 and 24 when we met, and now we are 51. Not boomers Gen x, but our values are very common to the boomers.
i love this channel, it always brings back good memories for me. you really hit the nail on the head with this episode lol.
We had four kids, Mother and father,
In the 1970's-80's, Dad worked, Mom stayed at home, but EVERY day, Breakfast and supper we all sat at the table, all six of us..
Then weekends we all sat for three meals breakfast, lunch, and Supper..
No one just got up and left the table either, if you were finished, or full, you asked permission to leave the table, then the kids, did the dishes, and cleaned the kitchen.
Man I miss those days, even more so now
I am a late boomer (1960) & I definitely learned how to make it thru life! My hubby & I use cash more, except for large purchases or hotels on trips then its the credit card (but know when to stay with in our budget!). I have reverted back to paying bills by checks in the mail, balancing the checkbook evert week, using coupons & such to save $, stocking up when you can & cooking more at home (saving the eating out for trips & special occasions),... Many lessons learned from parents who lived on 1 income (daddy's) & watching mom making things stretch each week. These were valuable lessons to have learned & still are needed today!
Right from the beginning dinner time needs to come back. In fact, I'm keeping/saving this video! Neighborhood parties are also gone. We don't even know our neighbours unless we need help. Because I have a physical limitation most neighbours in the 15 storey building where I live know me. But still, we need balance in our today's society. It's heartbreaking to see dinner table empty.
I’m 1973 and often look back at my formative years in 1980s fondly. A lot of the boomer traits were still persevering then . Thanks for this channel!
I'm a Gen-Xer ('74) and I'm so glad my baby boomer parents instilled these qualities in my sister and me.
I giggled all the way through this video. Nice to know that you keep your knives sharpened.
"There is no such thing as a bad student...... only a bad teacher."
- Mr. Miyagi
This is one of my favorite channels on UA-cam! Thank you for everything you create!!
Excellent video! Sums up what we are all thinking!
You could ride bikes back then cause there weren't many csrs on the road. Nowadays if you try to ride a bike youll most certainly get killed by a big truck or suv.
And also jobs were unionized back then. Thry treated you with respect. Now many jobs don't even have vacation time, pto, sick time or other stuff baby boomers had. Working sucks. This is why people don't stay at one job. You have to go from job to job to find something better.
We always gathered together- school, work and watching the news together. Cherish these memories
This is also Gen-X
Those were the days my friend. We thought they'd never end.
Born in 1956. Was always taught that you only buy something if you have the immediate funds to pay for it in full when you buy it. I do use credit cards to gain airline points and hotel benefits. But- unless we have the money to pay for it, we will not buy it. The credit card companies probably do not like us as they NEVER get interest from us. We refuse to pay extra because of interest charges.
Divorces became common with Boomers. The Yuppie lifestyle also came into Trend with them
I was born in 1950. When breakfast was over on weekends, I went straight to the TV and watch Roy Rogers, fury, my friend flicka, Ramar of the Jungle, Sky King, etc. The adults of the time said that they always went outside and played while the kids of the fifties are stuck inside watching TV. ETC, ETC in the '50s, your address and phone number was listed in a phone book so anybody could find you without a problem.
Born in December 9th, 1949. Best generation for music ever. ❤️ 🖤❤️ 🖤❤️
Your REALLY nailed it with this one!!!
I'm a 1948 "boomer" We waled to school unafraid from the first grade on, I'm sure I rode my bikes thousands of mies and at 75 still enjoy my rides. Dinner? Always with Mom and Dad ant hen with my little brother 11 years younger. Did the paper route thing, lied about my age and got a job in a service station at night (always looked a bit older when I was young) Got married at 19, wife turned 18 the day before we got married. 22 years together until she passed from cancer. Got my first car at 16 for a rousing 50 dollars! Not bad either, a 54 Olds. As kids we read a lot and no damn cellphones.
Todays youth? I see them standing around to get on the school bus all face glued to a smartphone, not smiling, not talking to one another and the school is only a mile and a half away - easy walk. (smaller town only 5-6 mile from one end to the other) I'm with my wife now - we used to walk home from junior high school. we got together after 54 years of going in different directions and the loss of spouses. As my Mom said before she passed at 92 - - "this isn't my world anymore" she was 100% correct, I see it more each day at my age.
Born in 1951. You hit the nail on the head! Thanks.
Thank you.
I loved eating around the table with family and roaming freely with other neighborhood kids.
Born in 1946, grew up in Canada and growing up was pretty much as you described it here. We were lucky to be born into that world with parents and grandparents who were serious about being RESPONSIBLE parents and grandparents. The society we grew up in started to disappear during hippy times and as computers + internet, IT, IoT etc. came along … largely due to innovators from our generation. We have experienced, and caused societal change but I think that being brought up as we were equipped us to deal with the change. I am almost 78 years old and still putting in seven day work weeks as I follow my vocation … farming the sea. We were able to expose our kids .. and now our grandchildren … tp some of the best aspects of the boomer childhood and that has served them well.
In all fairness about some jobs: places close, layoff, temps. Plus despite saving, EVERYTHING getting costly. One trip in the hospital for an unforseen emergency can put you in bankruptcy WITH insurance!!
I'm a baby boomer 1957 I remember eating as a family no eating wherever you wanted, riding my bike or rolling skating out doors until the street lights came on or going to the park. I really miss those days.