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This series of articles from Boomer Yearbook explores the fascinating and varied behavioral patterns that occur when families are affected by outside events, or by the impact of second and third marriages; the dangers and coaching solutions concerned with ‘spoiled’ children and the hurdles that must be addressed for family newcomers: Boomer Yearbook’s Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.
Psychological Articles and Coaching Tips for Baby Boomers to Avoid/ Alleviate Elderly Problems
Boomer Grandmother is a formidable figure and certain baby boomer grandmothers born in the late forties might have a daughter who is also a baby boomer, born in the sixties. Elderly female baby boomers display an interesting influence through the family line and manage to exert a significant amount of control, both on her boomer daughter and also on her granddaughter.
Baby boomers born in the forties to poorer families were subject to a certain amount of hardship. For many, this meant leaving school early to earn a wage, helping to raise younger children in the family and generally tending to obligations in a serious and diligent manner. Their standard were carried over to the next generation and some of the boomer mothers born in the sixties grew up as ‘latch key kids’ – the children who arrive home from school to an empty house and have to fend for themselves and younger brothers and sisters because Mom is working.
In the fifties and sixties, the World was recovering from the effects of World War II but there was also an element of moral rebellion taking place, which eventually led to the freedom of spirit celebrated in the late sixties and early seventies. Baby boomers who are now mothers of teenagers brought their children into a culture of liberty rather than discipline. Psychological articles from the schools of Attachment Object Relations, and Positive Psychology, note that the children produced by baby boomers of this generation enjoy increased freedom and a degree of excess in terms of material possessions.
Aging baby boomers have sailed through a World of radical changes and learned to embrace new technology. They have also, to an extent, learned to let go of their prejudices and accept new family structures previously seen as unorthodox at best and immoral at worst, such as unmarried couples; unmarried mothers; children in one family having different fathers due to the mother’s once considered ‘promiscuous’ personality; gay relationships and a host of other structural permutations that might once have been ‘taboo’.
Psychological articles from the schools of Attachment, Object Relations, and Positive Psychology, that examine the relationship between aging baby boomer women and their female descendants bring some interesting observations to the surface. The aging boomer female can be a scary character but seems to soften significantly when in the company of her female grandchild, who might enjoy certain privileges withheld from other family members. The reasons for this might be linked with the grandmother’s neglect of her own daughter: she transfers her affection to the next generation, ‘starting over’ with a clean slate. She feels her daughter resents her so gravitates to her granddaughter.
The development of extreme affection between a boomer grandmother and her granddaughter might often damage the relationship between the grandmother and her boomer daughter. The casualty at the center of all these swirling emotions is of course the boomer daughter, caught between the disciplines of the last generation and the liberties of the next; a reluctant passenger on a tide of emotions that pass between a controlling and influential aging/elderly lady and the spoiled object of her affection – the granddaughter.
The Psychological Article on The Female Equation: Boomer Grandmother and Her Influence is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.
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