Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X & Boomers have completely different ideas of what should stay private

The Gen X Files: Generation X should stop complaining about their adult children

Just when I thought all my children were done with their education and on their way, I have at least one who, after a few months of being a college graduate, is going back to school. The baby of the…

Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X & Boomers have completely different ideas of what should stay private

A twenty-six-year-old mentions at Sunday dinner that she’s switching antidepressants, the way you’d mention switching dentists. Her mother’s fork pauses for half a second. Her grandmother looks at the tablecloth and asks who wants more potatoes. Nothing went wrong. She said a true thing about her own life at a table full of people who love her. But three generations just heard three different things, and only one of them heard a normal sentence.…