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In reply to the discussion: It seems like there's a lot of dislike and contempt for "boomers" from "millennials" [View all]llmart
(15,536 posts)Better doesn't always necessarily mean more material goods. I think the millenials definitely have more material goods than us boomers had at their age, so if that's the way you define "better" then boomers did OK.
Personally, I think our job as parents is not to "make things better" for them materially; it's to give them the skills to handle whatever comes their way with resourcefulness and gratitude.
I'm a boomer and I gave my two children a MUCH better life than I had, and I don't mean materially, though they did have that since I grew up in a poor, large family. I gave them time, taught them important lessons, taught them to give back to those less fortunate, taught them to make their own way in this world once they were adults and that's what they both have done, terrifically I might add.