Re: i wrote... NOW X-POSTED

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From: brucef
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:02

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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...

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