Water Your Own Damn Grass

Generation “Me” needs to change context, just like their Baby Boomer parents, as they near the age of parenting in order to “tip the balance” and raise a generation will ready for the real world. This change needs to be oriented toward teaching self control instead of self-esteem. The Baby Boomers that coddled their children to the extreme have only placed their “Gen Me” child at a disadvantage in the working/real world. Children do not have to experience a journey to gain the same message as their Baby Boomer parents but they do need to know that they can recover from their mistakes; whether in their education, in their social lives, or in their careers. Generation “Z” (millennium babies) should have the advantage as their parents have learned from the mistakes of the Baby Boomer’s educational and parenting methods for Generation “Me”. This change will give Generation “Z” the chance it needs to surpass their parents and earn the “green grass” they are taught to dream of.