Compare And Contrast Youngin's

After talking with and interviewing my parents, Jane (’60) and Fred (’56), I learned a lot about their way of life growing up, how they were raised, and justifications for their actions in present day. I asked each of them thirty questions under categories such as lifestyle, education, work, social, and general; many of them comparing life from when they were young and their lives now.
Youngin’s
I began by asking them about what their life was like being a child in the 50’s and 60’s. Unlike many families at the time, neither one of them lived in the suburbs. My father grew up in a small town in the country and my mother grew up in an apartment building in Burlington. Neither one grew up in a large family either having no siblings or only three.
They feel as though boomers had the opportunity to spoil their kids because of the lavish lifestyle they could afford to live. As my mother said, “You are a mooch; spoiled”. She attributed this to being brought up in a lavish lifestyle which leads my generation’s dissatisfaction with growing up in the real world of high housing prices and the stresses of living on your own. On a lighter note, we discussed things such as toys, activities, and household amenities. A common theme that I noticed was the prevalence of military related toys, specifically with my dad. His favourite toy was called the “Johnny 7” which was a seven-in-one gun. He said there were lots of these types of toys because of the Vietnam War. A major difference between life now versus then was in living amenities. They never believed that they would live in a house as large as ours or have access to remote controlled television, microwaves, dishwashers and more. In general, I got the gist from them that activities like sports and clubs that were available to them are still available to us now. They did note that there are more social groups, classes and
As a generation, they loved rock-and-roll, loud and terrible music, acting rebellious and all sorts of other terrible things. They were criticized for being druggies and partiers and unreasonable for not liking their parents’ jazz music. My mom said quite frankly “I liked it as a kid, but I grew up and realized that it sounded like sh*t”. They find it funny that I love the music they listen to. As later boomers they were growing up in the time of hot pants and disco clothes, where men wore heels and ladies wore jeans for the first time in history. With so many people in and around their age, they found it easy to make friends and they learned how to communicate with them well. What brought all of these young people together? A new era of music did. Yes, Aerosmith, The Beetles, Jefferson Airplane, and David Bowie are among many rock legends of the time. With their long hair and leather pants, musicians had a great influence over the mood and style of the boomers. Through magazines, posters, radio, and television, the boomers had access to all of the latests fads and trends in music, fashion, and lifestyle. The phrase “long hair, don’t care” originated in the time of the boomers because of their rebellious long hairstyles that were utterly repulsive to their parents. For the boomers, finding a job was never a struggle. My father went to university, college, and dabbled in the trades before he