I was reading on my sister in laws news feed how she as Gen X was the last of the common sense kids that had amazing childhoods and quite proud of this idea. I didn’t do it but I probably will respond with “well, you can’t take credit for YOU being amazing or your childhood being amazing, the credit goes to your PARENTS for that”. If Gen Y is screwed up it’s because Gen X screwed them up by not doing their job as parents and in turn Gen Y continued to screw up the next generation and so on. What we need is a revisitation of parenting, not rescuing, not enabling but doing the difficult job of parenting….it should be HARD to be a parent and do what is necessary to raise responsible, adults with common sense and decency. It’s not our job to be their friends, it’s not our job to never let them fail or hurt but teach them how to cope with disappointment, sadness, failure and success.