Tag: baby boomers

  • Gen X Has A Surprisingly Simple Retirement Plan

    Gen X Has A Surprisingly Simple Retirement Plan

    For decades, retirement has been sold as a destination. Work hard, save enough, reach the finish line, then finally have time for the hobbies you always imagined. But financial planner Benjamin Brandt keeps seeing something different with his Gen X clients. Instead of dreaming up an entirely new life for retirement, they are reaching backward…

  • The Wild Boomer Parent Habits Millennials Cannot Stop Talking About

    The Wild Boomer Parent Habits Millennials Cannot Stop Talking About

    One minute, your dad is yelling at you for being on your phone too much. The next, he’s doom-scrolling Facebook while the TV blasts weather updates nobody asked for. That pretty much sums up the growing internet conversation about Boomer parents and the increasingly baffling habits that leave Millennials torn between frustration, guilt, laughter, and…

  • How the Latchkey Generation Became America’s Most Stressed and Most Resilient Adults

    How the Latchkey Generation Became America’s Most Stressed and Most Resilient Adults

    A generation raised on benign neglect, punk rock mixtapes, and the unwritten rule that feelings are best kept to yourself has quietly arrived at the most demanding chapter of adult life. Born between 1965 and 1979, Generation X never asked for sympathy and certainly never expected it. Sandwiched between the much larger Baby Boomer and…

  • Turns Out, Boomers Had a Point And Younger Generations Are Finally Admitting It

    Turns Out, Boomers Had a Point And Younger Generations Are Finally Admitting It

    Picture a group of twenty-somethings hunched over their phones, scrolling through a thread that makes them nod in agreement at every post except the thread sounds like their grandparents wrote it. Nobody planned for it to go this way. A single question on Reddit drew 123 million views and accidentally proved something nobody in Gen…