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  • Definitely! (0 / 0)

    Trying to keep up with all these demands, material and otherwise, is enough to make anyone unhappy!  

    I could be wrong, but I feel like my parents didn't stress as much as my generation does. They just did their best, but I never got a sense of parental angst.

    I also think the proliferation of "extreme jobs" could have something to do with unhappiness.  It's hard to balance these jobs now, along with having a family.

    by NJmom on Wed Jul 02, 2008 at 11:34:19 AM PDT

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    • I'm not sure (0 / 0)

      I could be wrong, but I feel like my parents didn't stress as much as my generation does. They just did their best, but I never got a sense of parental angst.

      But do our children notice our parental angst, or is it something parents have always tried to 'hide' from their kids. I know that I'm certainly not always as sure as I may seem to others. Perhaps our parents felt the same way?

      I do know that financially, most your parents now have a more difficult time than my parents' generation, if only because housing now takes up a much larger part of anyones budget. We need our two 'middle class' incomes desperately to be able to live in a rather modest house not too far from work - this was not the case 20 or more years ago. This obviously does not help to ease the balancing act.

      Mama of two girls, of June 2006 and April 2008

      by SwissClogs on Wed Jul 02, 2008 at 11:42:22 AM PDT

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      • Hmm (0 / 0)

        I don't know. I don't think my parents felt as much angst as parents of my generation.

        They didn't have a lot of money by any stretch, and they both worked, but I do think the expectations of what parents were supposed to do and provide were a bit more in control back then.

        Or maybe they just covered it up really well  : )

        by NJmom on Wed Jul 02, 2008 at 12:54:37 PM PDT

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