Psychological Articles on Elderly Problems
by Boomeryearbook.com

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 the modern World; the challenges faced by men of the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: Boomer Yearbook’s Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.

Baby boomers had it good in many respects. Life in the mid twentieth century was nothing if not straightforward and relatively affluent. Family life was fairly conventional and boomers’ dads went to work to earn the money to support Stay At Home Mom and the kids. In the modern environment, fragmentation has produced multiple roles for modern men and women.

Women are no longer content to read up on new recipes and allow the man to make all the major decisions that affect her and her children. Women in modern society work ambitiously within their chosen careers and sometimes achieve better success than their male colleagues. Children are valued but sometimes come second to their mother’s ambition to succeed. Her partner must therefore necessarily take on a greater responsibility at home to support her schedule. Elderly baby boomers sometimes view this arrangement as unworkable and often attempt to divert working mothers to stay at home more.

Psychological articles from the schools of Attachment, Object Relations, and Positive Psychology support that men in the twenty first century are expected to achieve spectacularly in a number of areas that include being a practical, hands-on father, a supportive husband to a working mother, a source of pride to the baby boomers who are his own parents and a reliable provider.

In the forties and fifties, university entrance was considered to be highly expensive and reserved for the ultra intelligent. In our egalitarian society, almost 10% of the American population hold a Master’s Degree or higher and every citizen is deemed to deserve the opportunity to attend university: the onus is on modern parents to provide the means. Baby boomers more often than not chose to send their kids to college and university but were not as likely to be pressured into doing so. As more pressure is applied for men to comply with the criteria imposed by society, more areas within which to fail are presented. This causes greater stress levels, along with an even higher incidence of failed marriages.

Attaining a college degree does not necessarily guarantee employment, as the job market has been severely compromised by the failing economy in the past few years. Even more responsibility weighs on the shoulders of modern man as he struggles to keep his job and juggle his home life, anxious that should he lose his job, the likelihood of his finding another are slimmer than they have been for twenty years. With the cost of living at an all time high, he certainly has his hands full trying to make ends meet.

Baby boomers with an ear to the ground and a sense of perception appreciate that career and family life are not as simple as they once were and provide moral support to sons and grandsons caught within complicated and pressured modern lifestyles. Psychological articles cover the subject of modern stress triggers and cite marital problems; career pressure and financial worries among the top contenders for causing undue anxiety and distress in men today.

The Psychological Article on Modern Man and His Challenge to Please Everyone 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.

Boomer Yearbook is a Social Network and Psychological Articles for Baby Boomers. Connect with old and new friends, or expand your mind and ward off senior moments and elderly problems with dream analysis and online optical illusions and brain games provided by clinical psychologist Dr. Karen Turner. Join other Baby Boomers to stay informed, receive weekly Newsfeeds, and let your opinions be heard. Baby boomers changed the world. We’re not done yet!

Psychological Articles on Elderly Problems
by Boomeryearbook.com

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 the modern World; the challenges faced by men of the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: Boomer Yearbook’s Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.

The older generation of male baby boomers were hard working, responsible fathers and figures who drew respect from their families, especially their sons. As these sons lived in a modern environment, their values and expectations changed to embrace unorthodox, sometimes fragmented family structures that might include step children and second or even third wives.

Baby boomers representing the elderly part of the community enjoyed a relatively straightforward structure within the family unit. In a family where the mother and father have been together since their twenties, there is a level of financial security achieved in later life; whereas there might be financial hardship caused by multiple alimony payments and child support obligations for modern men with a series of broken relationships behind them.

Escalating costs make it imperative that men earn more in order to pay more. The problem is pandemic in that children are produced from one relationship, which breaks up: more children are produced within subsequent partnerships as the man might move on to link up with a childless woman who expresses a need to have a baby and so on…Men in general have become somewhat prolific when it comes to producing multiple families and the price is financial insecurity.

A career is all important to a man with heavy responsibilities both old and new. As men feel pressured to perform at work, their home life might suffer considerable neglect. Men often spend a great deal of time racing from one obligation to another at breakneck speed to satisfy needs in all areas of their lives. Eventually, stress can take hold and psychological articles from the schools of Attachment, Object Relations, and Positive Psychology clearly outline how the pressures of being professionally and personally successful can lead to feelings of failure; guilt at not achieving; depression and emotional illness.

Men will sometimes experience a totally different lifestyle with different partners. A man might enjoy a traditional relationship with his first wife who is a Stay At Home Mother; happy to give up her career to raise the children, similar to the baby boomers’ marriage his own parents had. Should the marriage break up and the man takes a second wife, he could easily find his second experience quite different and be expected to take an equal role with home responsibilities. So here he finds a conflict of roles, as he still has contact with his first family and must somehow make his two roles compatible. Baby boomers look on as interested spectators in such situations.

Psychological articles note that a man will often feel obliged to have the children of his multiple relationships exist in a friendly, parallel environment: their acceptance of their respective home situations helps their father to feel less guilty and less threatened by feelings of having ‘abandoned’ his children. In fact, children faced with younger half brothers and sisters quite often readily accept their new status but encounter conflicting loyalties as a result of their mother’s resentment of the step children, even going so far as to ‘hide’ their affections for their father’s other children from their mother.

The Psychological Article on Juggling Roles: Keeping a Career and Being There for Family 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.

Boomer Yearbook is a Social Network and Psychological Articles for Baby Boomers. Connect with old and new friends, or expand your mind and ward off senior moments and elderly problems with dream analysis and online optical illusions and brain games provided by clinical psychologist Dr. Karen Turner. Join other Baby Boomers to stay informed, receive weekly Newsfeeds, and let your opinions be heard. Baby boomers changed the world. We’re not done yet!

Psychological Articles on Elderly Problems
by Boomeryearbook.com

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 the modern World; the challenges faced by men of the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: Boomer Yearbook’s Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.

Psychological articles from the schools of Attachment, Object Relations and Positive Psychology highlight how the modern family structure is ever changing and can include some fractional elements. In an environment of equal opportunity, many women have the qualifications and capabilities to earn far more than their husbands. A man who might pull a very respectable eighty thousand dollars per annum might be out-performed by his professional wife earning in excess of one hundred thousand.

In situations such as these, Stay At Home Dad emerges, to the horror of his parents; baby boomers and possibly family traditionalists. In an age where men have learned to be as capable as their wives when it comes to child care and home-based tasks, in fact more so as men traditionally have better DIY skills, women are being allowed an opportunity to take the reins and be the bread winner on a permanent basis.

It makes sense that the higher salary earner should be the one to go to work and the one with equal home skills should stay at home. Right? Well – not as far as Grandpa is concerned. Few baby boomers approve of their sons being Stay At Home Dads and some make their views uncomfortably public.

Their worries are well founded in some respects. They ask: what happens when the kids are grown? What happens to our son’s career? Indeed, what does happen? It is put ‘on hold’, just as a mother’s career would be, should she be the one to stay at home and look after the children while the husband went to work. This point fails to impress baby boomers, however, whose son is trashing his career to change diapers and buy baby food.

Drop into this situation the element of step children: the son who has re-married a woman whose children are still young might still be a candidate for role reversal and opt to take care of her children as well as his own. Baby boomers find this family structure outrageous and require the arrangement to enjoy a period of considerable success for their views to be turned around, if ever. Their main concern is that there son is being ‘used’ and often their opinions are aired within the family to the extent that long term resentment is caused between the grandparents, the working mother and the children concerned.

Psychological articles tell us that the modern take on stay-at-home fathers and working mothers is that ‘if it works, that is all that matters’, however, there are some practicalities to think about before such a step is seriously considered, not the least of which is how future prospective employers might receive the CV of a man who has spent ten years of stay at home childrearing. Unfairly, there is a growing consensus from psychological articles that inform us that they will consider employing a woman who has taken a break to raise her children but view a man’s decision to become a Stay At Home Dad irresponsible and an excuse to loaf around watching daytime TV. In this respect, perhaps Grandpa is right to be concerned…Yikes! What’s the Modern Man to do?

The Psychological Article on Role Reversal: Modern Stay at Home Man: Answering to Grandpa 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.

Boomer Yearbook is a Social Network and Psychological Articles for Baby Boomers. Connect with old and new friends, or expand your mind and ward off senior moments and elderly problems with dream analysis and online optical illusions and brain games provided by clinical psychologist Dr. Karen Turner. Join other Baby Boomers to stay informed, receive weekly Newsfeeds, and let your opinions be heard. Baby boomers changed the world. We’re not done yet!

Psychological Articles on Elderly Problems
by Boomeryearbook.com

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 the modern World; the challenges faced by men of the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: Boomer Yearbook’s Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.

Baby boomers were on the borders of being ‘hands-on’ dads. Their own fathers waited patiently in the waiting rooms of hospitals, or discreetly in the downstairs parlor as their children were delivered and the suggestion that a man should actually be present at his wife’s bedside as she gave birth would fill him with horror and disgust. New Age man might actually help deliver his children, so close is his involvement with pregnancy and birth, cutting the cord himself and being the first to hold his newborn baby.

 Men who take an active and involved role in the pregnancy and birth of their children are usually proactive in the care and supervision of their kids from the cradle onward. They feed; they change diapers; they walk the baby in a buggy or carry the child in a sling; they do all the things a mother might do apart from breast feed and many feed their babies expressed breast milk when mothers are busy working.

This lifestyle is totally alien to elderly baby boomers, who experienced a slight leaning toward being ‘hands on’ with their own sons but are probably over-awed by their grandsons’ equal role in the process of rearing their children. Modern man approaches the subject of fatherhood both seriously and enthusiastically. European men, especially Italians and Spanish, take an almost obsessive pride in their children, arguing with their wives over whose turn it might be to push the buggy and carrying baby’s pacifier around in their pockets proudly.

Psychological articles from the schools of Attachment, Object Relations, and Positive Psycholgy note that baby boomers’ attitude to the way their grandchildren are raised is sometimes derisive and sometimes admiring. There is an element of regret in even the most chauvinistic of grandfathers that they missed that closer experience of their children so enjoyed by their grandsons.

Problems can arise in modern homes when New Age man and New Age woman disagree on the level of involvement men should have, not only with the raising of children but also with other household responsibilities. Traditionally, mothers taught little girls how to cook; make conventional staple foods such as dough; pastry; cake mix and basics such as casseroles; pasta dishes and desserts. Boys were left out of the equation, as a rule. When adults, those boys admired their wives’ efficiency in the kitchen but seldom sought to experiment themselves.

All that has changed and the grandsons of the 21st Century happily wield a wooden spoon with enthusiasm and efficiency; some making better cooks than their partners. Elderly grandfathers look on this situation with interest and feel a combination of amusement, admiration and sympathy as they look back on their own experience with mothers who would shoo their husbands out of the kitchen, as if their presence might contaminate a food preparation area!

Psychological articles make some fascinating comparisons between modern men and their grandfathers, in an age where the social and cultural differences between the beginning of the century and the end seem vast and unbridgeable. Stay tuned to Boomer Yearbook for further updates.

The Psychological Article on Making Changes: Modern Man Changing Diapers 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.

Boomer Yearbook is a Social Network and Psychological Articles for Baby Boomers. Connect with old and new friends, or expand your mind and ward off senior moments and elderly problems with dream analysis and online optical illusions and brain games provided by clinical psychologist Dr. Karen Turner. Join other Baby Boomers to stay informed, receive weekly Newsfeeds, and let your opinions be heard. Baby boomers changed the world. We’re not done yet!