What's your Generation?

[Fenner]

The biggest problem with my generation, in my opinion, is that no one bothers attempting to make us grow up. We got trophies for playing, pass classes so our feelings don't get hurt and EVERYONE tries to sugar coat reality. Overall we are given privileges without responsibility but no one understands why we do stupid stuff. Stop removing the consequences and we'd be better off.

Yeah and I think honestly a lot of that comes from my Generation X. The whole self esteem building thing took a left turn and now everyone get's a prize. My 11 year old Son has a very hard time losing a game or not immediately doing well at something. I have to tell him all the time, it's okay to fall, you get back and you keep going. Everything is difficult the first time. But don't give up you'll regret it. It sort of helps him when I say that and sometimes not.


I also have to tell them, you don't do your homework you face the consequences. No recess or whatever. You're not above the rules.

 

[Fenner]

I was born in 1977, so I guess that makes me Generation "Y" according to what I've seen online. I don't really have much to say about my generation because I never got too involved with it. I didn't do the same things others did growing up, coming of age, or now that we're adults. I was able to pretty well isolate myself from everyone thanks to my conditions, neuroses, and personality flaws. One thing I did notice is that technology seemed to move extremely fast during my growing up and I wasn't very comfortable with that. I don't particularly trust technology.

In high school we had Macintosh computers and they didn't do much. We had huge floppy disks and I remember taking this computer graphics class in high school on these now ancient relic Mac's. I didn't pay much attention to technology. I was so excited when my friend and I built my very first computer, it was so new and exciting. Now technology is such a huge non noticeable part of the world.

 

[notmyown]

What no! Techno is the grandchild of 70's disco....don't hate appreciate I love techno and even some old school disco.

em, sorry, but no!

i picketed disco in the seventies.

i like my music to sound like music.

but i'm glad you like it, and magnanimously grant you permission to listen to it. lol!

 

[EmilyNats]

Why I love the 50's:

Why I love the 60's:

What the 80's were missing:

Moral of this story is that it all comes down to cowboys. You are welcome.

(See what you've done, zeroturbulence? In teaching me how to post pictures, you've unleashed a picture monster.)

 

[wwjd_kilden]

Yeah and I think honestly a lot of that comes from my Generation X. The whole self esteem building thing took a left turn and now everyone get's a prize. My 11 year old Son has a very hard time losing a game or not immediately doing well at something. I have to tell him all the time, it's okay to fall, you get back and you keep going. Everything is difficult the first time. But don't give up you'll regret it. It sort of helps him when I say that and sometimes not.


I also have to tell them, you don't do your homework you face the consequences. No recess or whatever. You're not above the rules.

Strange, I feel it's the other way around.
You HAVE to be best at everything, or you're nothing (either you are "punished" or ignored), only the ones who do best are worth anything. ...and even when you do your best, you could/ should be doing better.

(For a couple of years in school I kept being told by the teachers "I didn't grade you higher because I know you can do better. Insinuating my work should have gotten a better grade but because I according to them was capable of more, they lowered it)

 

[EmilyNats]

Strange, I feel it's the other way around.
You HAVE to be best at everything, or you're nothing (either you are "punished" or ignored), only the ones who do best are worth anything. ...and even when you do your best, you could/ should be doing better.

(For a couple of years in school I kept being told by the teachers "I didn't grade you higher because I know you can do better. Insinuating my work should have gotten a better grade but because I according to them was capable of more, they lowered it)

Nowadays, though, "curving" grades is a common practice. You can have two kids in the same class, one who knows their math and one who doesn't, and they can both come home with the same grades. And in collage classes, minorities get extra points just for being a minority.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

Nowadays, though, "curving" grades is a common practice. You can have two kids in the same class, one who knows their math and one who doesn't, and they can both come home with the same grades. And in collage classes, minorities get extra points just for being a minority.

That's weird.

 

[tanakh]

I was born in 1947 and am what is known as a ''Baby Boomer'' here. I hate the title by the way sounds like an exploding infant. Anyway I think I was fortunate to be born then. I wouldn't have missed the sixties for anything. The down side is that my generation seems to be blamed for everything thats deemed wrong with the world.

 

[Yeraza_Bats]

I was born in 1947 and am what is known as a ''Baby Boomer'' here. I hate the title by the way sounds like an exploding infant. Anyway I think I was fortunate to be born then. I wouldn't have missed the sixties for anything. The down side is that my generation seems to be blamed for everything thats deemed wrong with the world.

If it makes you feel any better, I dont hold the belief that our problems are the fault of those before us, and that we are all responsible for our own choices, and even though those before us made mistakes, the people of today are making tons of their own mistakes too : p

 

[MadParrotWoman]

Why I love the 50's:

Why I love the 60's:

What the 80's were missing:

Moral of this story is that it all comes down to cowboys. You are welcome.

(See what you've done, zeroturbulence? In teaching me how to post pictures, you've unleashed a picture monster.)

Clint Eastwood is a legend!

 

[HoneyDew]

1966



*US has nearly 500,000 troops in Vietnam

*4 dig under the Berlin Wall to gain freedom from East Germany

*The Salvation Army Celebrates 100 years

*Miniskirts are in fashion

*Cassius Clay Defeats Henry Cooper in two title fights in London

*Vietnam international days of protest

*Miranda Rights come into being after the Supreme Court overturns the conviction of a confessed rapist ruling he had not been properly informed of his right to council and to not testify against himself

*Pakistani-Indian peace negotiations end successfully

*Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India

*The Australian Dollar was introduced at a rate of two dollars per pound, or ten shillings per dollar.

*Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome - the first official meeting for 400 years between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches

*Earthquake in Turkey - 2394 dead, 10000 injured

*Aberfan disaster in South Wales in United Kingdom, a slag heap containing unwanted rock from the local coal mine slid down Merthyr Mountain. As it collapsed it destroyed twenty houses and a farm before going on to demolish virtually all of Pantglas Junior School 144 people were killed, 116 of whom were children mostly between the ages of 7 and 10.

*Barbados achieves independence

*US Population exceeds 195 million



*England defeats Germany to win the 1966 World Cup Final.
Memory posted by visitor for that day The day England Won The World Cup

*China under Chairman Mao launches China's Cultural Revolution and begins purging intellectuals

Popular Culture
- Star Trek first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek
- Author Jacqueline Susann has her first novel, Valley of the Dolls published
- Simon and Garfunkel release Sounds of Silence,

Popular Films
Thunderball
Dr. Zhivago
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Man for All Seasons

Music
The Mamas and the Papas
The Beatles
The Monkees
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Simon and Garfunkel
Popular Songs

I'm a Believer... The Monkees
Good Vibrations... The beach Boys
Monday Monday... The Mamas and the Papas
Wild Thing... The Troggs

Top 10 TV Series
"Bonanza"; "The Red Skelton Hour"; "The Andy Griffith Show"; "The Lucy Show"; "The Jackie Gleason Show"; "Green Acres"; "Daktari"; "Bewitched"; "The Beverly Hillbillies"; "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
Other Series Premieres
"The Monkees"; "Family Affair"; "That Girl"; "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E."; "The Green Hornet"; "Mission: Impossible"; "Dark Shadows."

 

[EmilyNats]

Clint Eastwood is a legend!

And not just in his own mind, either.

 

[EmilyNats]

1966



*US has nearly 500,000 troops in Vietnam

*4 dig under the Berlin Wall to gain freedom from East Germany

*The Salvation Army Celebrates 100 years

*Miniskirts are in fashion

*Cassius Clay Defeats Henry Cooper in two title fights in London

*Vietnam international days of protest

*Miranda Rights come into being after the Supreme Court overturns the conviction of a confessed rapist ruling he had not been properly informed of his right to council and to not testify against himself

*Pakistani-Indian peace negotiations end successfully

*Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India

*The Australian Dollar was introduced at a rate of two dollars per pound, or ten shillings per dollar.

*Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome - the first official meeting for 400 years between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches

*Earthquake in Turkey - 2394 dead, 10000 injured

*Aberfan disaster in South Wales in United Kingdom, a slag heap containing unwanted rock from the local coal mine slid down Merthyr Mountain. As it collapsed it destroyed twenty houses and a farm before going on to demolish virtually all of Pantglas Junior School 144 people were killed, 116 of whom were children mostly between the ages of 7 and 10.

*Barbados achieves independence

*US Population exceeds 195 million



*England defeats Germany to win the 1966 World Cup Final.
Memory posted by visitor for that day The day England Won The World Cup

*China under Chairman Mao launches China's Cultural Revolution and begins purging intellectuals

Popular Culture
- Star Trek first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek
- Author Jacqueline Susann has her first novel, Valley of the Dolls published
- Simon and Garfunkel release Sounds of Silence,

Popular Films
Thunderball
Dr. Zhivago
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Man for All Seasons

Music
The Mamas and the Papas
The Beatles
The Monkees
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Simon and Garfunkel
Popular Songs

I'm a Believer... The Monkees
Good Vibrations... The beach Boys
Monday Monday... The Mamas and the Papas
Wild Thing... The Troggs

Top 10 TV Series
"Bonanza"; "The Red Skelton Hour"; "The Andy Griffith Show"; "The Lucy Show"; "The Jackie Gleason Show"; "Green Acres"; "Daktari"; "Bewitched"; "The Beverly Hillbillies"; "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
Other Series Premieres
"The Monkees"; "Family Affair"; "That Girl"; "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E."; "The Green Hornet"; "Mission: Impossible"; "Dark Shadows."

And daddy was born!