What's wrong with Millenials? Part 2 in Current Events

Millennials were born in the 1980s to mid-90s. We have to understand the world from 1980 to now for the child growing up in those times. Parenting methods started to change in the 80s. Members of the boomer generation started to recognize some of the detrimental effects of the failed parenting strategies from their childhoods and started looking for alternatives. Thus the era of the parenting book was born. Parenting in the 80s and 90s was a very strange blend of carelessness and control.

Also, single-family homes became the new norm and divorce skyrocketed. Children lost access to many of the emotional and self-esteem resources previous generations had access to. The Boomer generation had a neighbourhood of kids. Those kids were resources for physical, mental and emotional needs. Before the single-family home people lived with extended relatives. Each one of those relatives was another resource a child had. Thus, the Millennial generation is one with a lot of unmet needs. Millennials were raised with the carrot and stick, the punishment and reward approach. Children were indoctrinated with the idea that
if they followed what the adults said to do that there would be a carrot waiting at the end of that rainbow. Also that if you didn’t do what they said that it would mean consequences and pain. These children jumped on that train and put their energy into doing exactly what mom and dad said. They did this to get approval and because they genuinely believed that doing what their parents said would yield positive results for their future and it didn’t. It didn’t big time.