Anybody else notice that the Silent Generation is ignored altogether?

chic said:
Not true. I love the silent generation and learn so much from them as I have all of my life. You were silent because you were strong? It has always seemed that way.
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I learned so much from your generation and the ones much older than that.

My maternal grandparents were born respectively in 1893 and 1894. I learned the history of HM Queen Victoria, how the Titanic's predicted disaster changed their wedding plans by two years and how cars and driving came about.

The survival by all during the Spanish Flu Pandemic as my parents were born in 1917 and 1918. World War One and Two... Fascinating!

Through a large book found after my grandfather passed away in 1969, I learned about my great grandmother (1853-1926). Her books of medicinal herbs, lotions and potions. Sadly, the book was destroyed but what I'd managed to read had been insightful.

That's why to this day, I follow the Wicca principles. I use natural and herbal medicines. I'm terrified of large cruise ships of any kind and with all the unrest in the world today, I'm pray for Peace above all else.

I've learned all about carpentry tools that weren't electrically powered. Valuable decorations tips, where you bypass the use of wallpapers and actually paint the patterns on top of base paints.

I could go on and on. At the time grandfather passed away, I wished I'd been older so I could have taken the huge Potbelly cooker that we're in their home. Cooking with a wood fire burning in four cavities underneath gave you food that was so flavourful. Hmm... Too bad when one relative attempted to cook, it was dry as a bone and way too salty... šŸ˜‚

Finally, with paternal grandmother, I learned all about Native Indian Heritage. Sadly, she died a fortnight away from reaching her 100th birthday. I miss her to this day. She'd been through so much. She was history alive and all I've learned from them is still extremely valuable and I've passed it on to my own children.

Blessed be! Respect your elders as they're part of who you are and who you'll be for years to come...
 

As a truly senior member of that generation (born in 1933), I find that many of succeeding generations have asked me tons of questions regarding what life was like before and during WWII. They are also curious about pre-technology days as well.

Actually, having been to the 1939 NY World's Fair, I was aware of some of the technological advances to come.

So, all in all, no, I, for one, haven't been much ignored.
 
I never heard the term silent generation until now and have come to find that I am part of it being born in 1942. I just made it. We may be silent because our parents strived to instill self discipline in us as compared the permissive parents of later generations.

The Silent Generation refers to people who were born between 1925 and 1945. There are several theories as to where the label 'Silent Generation' originated. The children who grew up during this time worked very hard and kept quiet. It was commonly understood that children should be seen and not heard.
 

Seriously, I had to look this up and did so just now. I had no idea who the ā€˜silent generationā€™ were/are.

My parents are from the ā€˜silent generation. Iā€™ve spent some time complaining about my parents, for things I hadnā€™t resolved myself and should have. Looking up the ā€˜silent generationā€™ really made me understand my own parents so much more.

They were born & raised during a war. Things were tough. There was a recession so they learned how to be fugal. It was a wise choice that allowed them to purchase a house in England and then a house and cottage in Canada. The cottage was made into a house which my husband helped them do. They travelled extensively and loved it. They learned to dance and danced often. They had an amazing life.

This article states that they were thrifty, respectful, unassuming and loyal. This is so accurately truthful. My parents were thrifty ( a nicer word for fugal which I will start using ), they were definitely respectful. They generally treated people respectfully. Unfortunately they were prejudiced against some races and made no pretence about it. Loyal? My mom was very loyal to my father.

Unassuming? Unassuming meaning modesty? My mom was never arrogant. She was very intelligent and smart as a whip but never arrogant about it. Iā€™ve actually never heard my mom brag about anything.

There are some very good traits from the ā€˜silent generation.ā€™ Dealing with life is difficult enough; having to deal with a war while raising a family must have been so difficult.
They had to be tough to deal with so many hardships.

Baby Boomers are considered demanding, self assured, independent and competitive.
Besides the self assured, the rest fits me to a ā€˜T.ā€™ Not criticizing others here.

I canā€™t speak for everyone but maybe since most baby boomers were raised by parents or relatives trying to survive a war, they were more stoic in the mannerisms. Our generation had the Beatles & the šŸŽ¶ Stones; love, not war, peace and grooovy baby. Flower power šŸŒŗ & lots of weed.

Most of us never experienced the war so canā€™t relate to all the hostility. Why fret when you can just have a joint or shot of rye whisky or scotch and chill! We were the REBELS!!!! Yeah man. ā˜®ļø

There was a total disconnect in many families but now itā€™s almost like this type of life is repeating itself. I think there will be world war 111 and another dramatic shift in behaviour.

I think itā€™s normal to think you could have done better in Hindsight!! Itā€™s always easier to sit back afterwards when life actually IS easier and criticize those before us.
As long as we all remember to use all these as LESSONS to LEARN from, itā€™s ALL good. šŸ™
 
As one who has had few friends in his life nor was a member of any crowd activity, I never saw anyone in terms of their generation. Rather, everyone was simply an individual with each individual relating to the others as individuals as well. That's how I see and take people, as individuals rather than as members of any group.
 
gruntlabor said:
Thank you, you are too kind.
You speak of the one percent, the elite, always ruthless in any generation.
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Actually I was speaking here of ALL mankind. As a species we are a bit ruthless when it comes to money , power and playing survival of the fittest. Itā€™s not completely mankindā€™s fault that more than 80% of the worlds diverse animal species have become extinct but a good portion of it is.

Itā€™s easy to say in hindsight, thatā€™s when men were men and women knew their place, things were FAR better. On the outside everything looked wonderful but we were taught to ā€˜suck it up buttercup.ā€™ Years later we discover the ugly trusts about our history.

The newer generations might look extra sensitive but how do we know they arenā€™t doing hideous things on the dark web. Not to say that they are but there are now newer more elaborate ways of deception to play power trip games and rip each other off.

My dark side šŸ˜šŸŽƒ
 
I never bought into this "generation" idea. From this date to that date, all the people born during that time all think alike, all act alike- they all have the same convictions. And , of course, if you were born ten minutes after the cutoff date, you're in another generation, with a whole new set of principles. The generation thing is a harmless parlor discussion without any true value.
 
It might follow from trends in place during formative years. Parenting fads, education theories, economic conditions, state of technology, position on the urbanization curve, and other things probably play into the shaping of a "generation."

When most people grew up on the farm well after the pioneer era but before radio (let alone television and movies) and the horse and wagon was basic transportation... it probably produced different outlooks than kids have right now. Even different from kids who could take the inter-urban into town to see the show on a Saturday decades later.
 
I was born at the tail end of the war to older parents, neither of whom served in WWII but both of whom worked very hard and supported the war effort. There were 6 much older children from previous marriages, some of whom serve in the military in Korea. I don't really classify myself as either generation but I think I'm more like the silent due to the way I was raised.

I lived the differences between the generations. I grew up in a home with only adults from the time I can remember. My oldest brother's children were only a little younger than me but the difference between the way we were raised was vast and ugly.

I was a quiet child taught manners and to respect adults, seen but not heard, I guess. They were hooligans taught that they must have whatever they wanted the minute they wanted it and everything visible was theirs. They lived in the next state but they visited at least once a year and sometimes more. I dreaded their visits and I think my parents did as well. I remember hiding my things before they came and I was told to be polite and not say anything, no matter what happened, when the wrecking machines arrived. My sister had only one child, 9 years younger than me, but she too was taught to put self before others.

Eventually there was a falling out between my brother and my father that ended with my brother saying I was 'cowed' and my father saying that the grandchildren would have to behave when they visited from then forward. That was the last visit and I haven't seen them since.

On this forum there seem to be a lot more boomers than silents. Some of the posts around the forum have a great focus on self from the self identified boomers which to me supports the generational differences. Of course responsibility for the way the boomers were raised falls on the silents. Reap what you sow.
 
Think each generation goes through this and wonders "what happened"?.
When I was in my 50's the whole world including me was still young...something happened
in my 60's. I began to realize that there were two choices - try to keep up with the changes
or say "why bother " and age in place. I chose part of each one and am glad I did.

My mother would have been considered in the"the silent" generation but she was anything but silent.
I was raised around a covey of non silent generation born people guess you'd say...lol.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Boomers, Milennials, Gen X, Gen Z get all the attention. There are plenty of us "Silents" still around, alive and kicking and well and employed. We're pretty much treated as though we're either already dead or too insignificant to bother with.
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i am gen x and i don't feel as though i get that much attention. in fact i think most older folks get ignored to the point where they are basically invisible anymore. which is fine with me. when it irritates me i speak up. :)
 
Myrtle said:
I was born at the tail end of the war to older parents, neither of whom served in WWII but both of whom worked very hard and supported the war effort. There were 6 much older children from previous marriages, some of whom serve in the military in Korea. I don't really classify myself as either generation but I think I'm more like the silent due to the way I was raised.

I lived the differences between the generations. I grew up in a home with only adults from the time I can remember. My oldest brother's children were only a little younger than me but the difference between the way we were raised was vast and ugly.

I was a quiet child taught manners and to respect adults, seen but not heard, I guess. They were hooligans taught that they must have whatever they wanted the minute they wanted it and everything visible was theirs. They lived in the next state but they visited at least once a year and sometimes more. I dreaded their visits and I think my parents did as well. I remember hiding my things before they came and I was told to be polite and not say anything, no matter what happened, when the wrecking machines arrived. My sister had only one child, 9 years younger than me, but she too was taught to put self before others.

Eventually there was a falling out between my brother and my father that ended with my brother saying I was 'cowed' and my father saying that the grandchildren would have to behave when they visited from then forward. That was the last visit and I haven't seen them since.

On this forum there seem to be a lot more boomers than silents. Some of the posts around the forum have a great focus on self from the self identified boomers which to me supports the generational differences. Of course responsibility for the way the boomers were raised falls on the silents. Reap what you sow.
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Yes, and the Silents came home from war physically and emotionally exhausted. They wanted rest, peace, quiet. They spoiled their children rotten.
 
I don't sweat the small stuff. I prefer to be left alone. Don't want any attention from those "ME" generation crybabies!

Still got a lot of life left in this ole body. Heading to Fargo, North Dakota next week. Then I'm flying off to Washington, DC for a couple of weeks to see what all the Yanks out there are bragging about this place. Oh yes, I have been a National Geographic member for 36 years so I gotta see the building in Washington. The Smithsonian Institute has 19 different buildings so I doubt that Washington will ever bore me. Gotta see that Abe Lincoln sitting on that chair and the rest of many, many very famous statues and as most Canadians would say, "other stuff."

Sad to say, the news does bore me so that is why I'm glad to be "on the road again."
 
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Oh my, I guess I am of the 'silent generation ' too.
Doesn't bother me one way or another.
It takes all generations to make the world go round.

Born in UK 1933.
Yes ,children should be seen and not heard when in adult company. That was the rule in most households.
Probably why I never shut up when in any company now
Jest catchin up :unsure::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
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