As far as the battle of the generations goes, Baby Boomers get a pretty bad rap. Social media is filled with memes, gifs, and articles that denigrate and deride all those people who just happened to be born between the mid-forties and the mid-sixties. And at least part of this bullying is unjustified. So, we think it’s about time that someone came to the defense of the innocent Boomers. After all, they have plenty of well-earned wisdom to share with us, and who are we to ignore it? So here are some of the instances in which we think the Boomers are doing it right and just maybe, just maybe, the rest of us are doing it wrong…
#1: The Art of Conversation
It does seem like sometimes the things that the older generations have right are the very basic foundations of human behavior and society. Whereas the young folks have been corrupted by technology and overabundance, our elders remember what it was like in simpler times and how to behave in accordance.
One of those basic activities is conversation. Aside from the fact that many millennials and Gen Zers can’t even string a few sentences together, they oftentimes don’t have the ability to cope with complex ideas and contradictions, making it pretty hard to communicate with people on the other side.