Jeremiah

What I did see was a tremendous amount of boomers' own words and behaviours, often directly from the person themselves as a tweet, email or text.

These posts, I think, speak for themselves and conform to the personal experiences of a lot of people have had with their own boomer parents.

Even if they can be statistically proven to be no different than any subsequent generation from a metrics point of view, that doesn't mean they aren't assholes.

I apologize for the profanity, but it's the most succinct term, I think.

I'm Gen X, born in the 70s.

My parents were boomers.

Their parents, my grandparents, were the greatest generation.

We in Gen X and some of the older millennials had a front row seat for the generational transition from the greatest to the boomers.

I think a lot of the hatred stems from our experiences during this time and I honestly think many of the boomers deserve worse.

My greatest grandparents loved their children and went out of their way to help them as adults any way they could.

Money, childcare, advice, a place to land when you lost your job.

I knew that I could go to my grandparents' house at any time, which I could walk to, and I'd be welcomed with love.

And fed.

They didn't move away even though they could afford it.

Their families were too important.

They lived for their grandkids.

They really were a great generation.

Now it's the boomers' turn to be grandparents.

Cool, they had some great role models.

How did that turn out?