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4 days ago · Here are 10 things Gen X kids did growing up that would make Gen Z cry. 1. Use payphones. Before the invention of cell phones, back when smartphones were just a glimmer in Steve Jobs' mind ...
3 days ago · Gen Xers are typically described as being resourceful and independent—traits partly stemming from their latchkey childhoods—as well as keen on maintaining work-life balance, perhaps due to witnessing the demands of their parents’ work and subsequent absence from family life.
- Generation X, or Gen X, is a term typically used to describe the generation of Americans born between 1965 and 1980, although some sources use slig...
- Generation X is known as the “middle child” generation because of its small size in comparison with the baby boomer and millennial generations. Gen...
- The term Generation X was popularized by Douglas Coupland in an article for Vancouver Magazine in 1987. He later said that he had adopted the term...
1 day ago · The complexities of my childhood traumas ranged from being sexually abused to returning to an empty home as a latchkey kid, from living in an emotionally hostile home to my parents getting a divorce, from being exposed to alcohol at a young age to my parents ignoring my pain, and I can keep going.
2 days ago · Baby boomers (born and raised between the late 1940s and 1960s) have been observed to prize efficiency and a life centered around a stable nine-to-five job. Gen X, born in the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, tends to prize independence and work-life balance, often citing their own “ latch-key kid ” upbringing as the source of their values.
7 hours ago · As a self-described Gen X and “latchkey kid,” Corie Weathers idolized Wonder Woman growing up. What started in childhood with defending her older brother and herself fiercely from bullies ...
13 hours ago · The post-war era saw the rise of the latchkey kid, who might hold down the fort while mom was at her ladies’ club or work.
4 days ago · Latchkey kids grew up touching grass, and getting insulted online hits them differently. They may reply to your TikTok, or possibly just send their most notorious and most polysyllabic white ...
