In article ,
gardenlen wrote:

no!! peer pressure and yuppieism and indoctrination into believeing
that these wastefull macmansion and all the trimmings are as good as
it gets. so us baby boomer as parent and grand-parents as well now are
battlers the common folk, the others are the psuedo neuvo rich yuppie
set, the real resource wasters, because money buys everything hey?
well got news for them they can't drink money as water nor can they
eat it as food.

So in general, your kids and the kids of your friends haven't bought back in
to the rat-race?

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

not sure chookie,

waht i mean is they are the way they are due to peer pressure not
because we where baby boomer parents who thought they should have
everything, quiet the opposite they developed all these wasteful ways
since leaving home, now we are trying to get them to think different
but not winning i tell you.

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:22:11 +1100, Chookie
wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/

In article ,
gardenlen wrote:

not sure chookie,

waht i mean is they are the way they are due to peer pressure not
because we where baby boomer parents who thought they should have
everything, quiet the opposite they developed all these wasteful ways
since leaving home, now we are trying to get them to think different
but not winning i tell you.

Which is more what I was getting at. I should have been clearer in that I
don't think boomers have deliberately brought up bratty kids or something --
but *something* in the boomer mindset, perhaps the independence of thought,
has led the kids to be more selfish than their parents/grandparents. Perhaps
it's just 2-3 generations of privilege and relative peace?

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

Chookie wrote:
Which is more what I was getting at. I should have been clearer in that I
don't think boomers have deliberately brought up bratty kids or something --
but *something* in the boomer mindset, perhaps the independence of thought,
has led the kids to be more selfish than their parents/grandparents. Perhaps
it's just 2-3 generations of privilege and relative peace?

I blame it on Dr Spock.

Interestingly, there are no baby boomers in my family.
My mother was born in 1940, just prior to the boom.
I was born in 1967, two or three years after the generally
accepted end of the period. Well I think it is interesting
anyway...