I'm a Baby Boomer (born in '62)....Our generation had the best music, without question. Well, okay, we had Disco, too, but I think that Motown and the British Invasion more than made up for that...

nothing, they are all replicating copies: the only things unique were in the 90s and now it's like a bunch of copies of brainless sheep

I just wish to refresh your memory regarding that so called silent generation. They survived two world wars and a depression that none of you have experienced.My family ran a stable that did weddings and funerals. Coaches plus eight black and eight white horses to drive them. During the depression there wasn't much call for fancy weddings and the family to survive ate those beautiful horses.Ten children ,two parents and three wives all living and working together to survive. The war saw three uncles and three other husbands deployed . Four were wounded and two were captured and held for 1-2 years in Nazie camps. During the war we kids collected cans ,nails screws and other metal objects for the war effort. The war was paid for by war bonds. Food, clothes were not the best. Cars were not made because the war effort needed all the metal. Kids practiced for air drills. We stood in long lines for food and used food stamps which limited what you could buy. There were blackouts fearing airplane attacks. Everyone gathered around the radio to hear the news at night. First were the number of killed in action then the wounded. It did not make for great news. We wanted to hear how far the Germans were pushed back in the various war zones especially those where we knew our men were fighting. The games played by the children both boys and girls centered around the war playing as nurses,Navy pilots,Marines and soldiers in the battles being reported that day. The Nation worked as one. The DEMS and REP all worked for the greater good of the Nation. There were still arguments but they were settled by compromise. Even in war it was a great proud country to live in

Boomer here. Parenting is a good subject to discuss, as its effects last for generations. As a young adult, I watched Doctor Spock's book take hold in the hippy generation, creating an atmosphere of privilege for children, in that little kids could make up their own minds about many things. I watched parents raise their kids as friends, totally disregarding the need for rules, discipline, and respect. The result: spoiled, entitled people with no life skills to handle the real world, so they live in their parent's basement till they're 30, playing video games.

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Generation Z forever! I was born in 2004. To that effect I can't comment on our parenting, but we do communicate just as much as anyone else. Parents see us on our phones calling us introverted, but what are we really doing? We are talking with friends! We are connecting with people all over the world! We are learning new things through our devices. We are questioning lies and being activists for the truth. We are turning our backs on what our family's believe, and through the digital world discovering what we believe.

My generation was the VERY LAST to use: cassette tapes, VHS, manual gaming consoles, drink surge when it wasn't cool, grow up playing outside, drinking from the garden hose, frequenting a library for books only, desensitized to a lot of "offensive" things, received an ass whooping as punishment, etc, etc. Oh, we also were raised without constant access to internet and cell phone usage.

The things that influenced me the most outside of my environment were: the assassination of JFK, MLK Jr, Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy, and the attempt on George Wallace. It was a very dangerous time (seemed to me), then came Woodstock, and finally Watergate. Somehow I lived through most of the Vietnam war. I'm not very trustful in the government. Wonder where that came from.

I'm a Gen X.
Off of the top of my head, the cold war was going strong, we had the space race which pushed the US to land several missions on the moon.
We had the Vietnam war, it's protests and its end.
We had the glorious resignation of President Nixon.