@nycdad posted:I get what you're saying, and sorry I should have probably been more nuanced in my response. I think my age group (I'm late 40s) probably have it easier than kids today. But I have friends that lost family in 9/11 and they'd likely disagree. I just don't want to pigeon hole an entire generation. It may be a cop out but I don't think I could say classify one.
I'd say I was pretty lucky to be born in 1966. I was too young to be drafted into the Vietnam war and too old to consider serving in Iraqi Freedom. My generation focused on work-life balance and had enough money to buy a house and save for retirement. Overall, if I'm honest I'm pretty soft in many ways. But I worry about my kids future all the time: the risk of war; diminishing influence of religion; political divisiveness; evils of social media/porn; the biases of media outlets; the list is long. I don't think todays generation has it easy at all.
So baseball serves as a bit of a compass for them. Learn how to get along with others. Be positive and supportive. Learn how to face failure. Have goals. Learn that hard work has intrinsic value. And importantly, keep them so busy they can't get in too much trouble as teens.
That all said, my 2023 thinks Millennials are a bunch of entitled, weak sauce, man bun narcissists... He cracks me up.