Girl time– it’s justified

So for my regular readers (ahh don’t I sound egotistical– it’s because I am), you may have picked up on the theme of I am a stress case. Someone pointed out today that every time they see me I’m twiddling my hair as it comforts me – a remnant of my thumb sucking as a child. Well it turns out that officially all the time I’ve been spending with my girlfriends is good for me. I just thought I was procrastinating all the work that seems to be piling up both professionally and domestically (thank heavens for Ashley!!!) Read on for the study. . .

de-stressin'

Prudish much?

So as I walked from Macy today towards the car the conversation went something like this:

He: Wow that was the worst customer service, and Men’s Wearhouse wasn’t any better, probably worse.

Me: Mental note to yelp this. Yeah I know it’s like good customer service has gone out the window.

He: It’s the Y Generation.  The new Generations are so irresponsible, and self absorbed. They’re all about them and their needs, and feel completely entitled.

And that is when it hit me.  I am old, and not just old. Old and uncool, and probably like some shriveled up old granny telling you about kids in her day. I was glad to read however that it’s not my fault that my husband an I are so stodgy and old. My best friend and I have had this conversation many a time as well, and we always just thought it was the Japanese parent who raised us to be a bit more um… conservative than the average American. But it turns out it’s our generation.  Well it’s not our generation’s fault, it’s the dumb F-ups before us. And yes I can say F-ups, because that’s what they were. Seriously key-parties, and AIDS spread worldwide. Half of Africa is dying because you guys couldn’t keep it in your pants responsibly. I had to watch click through videos in Health class on what some poor schmo’s schlong would look like if it had one of the myriad of STDs that were running around rampant. Like I wanted to see some random guys schlong to begin with, yet alone one infected with Gonorrhea!

But then I ran across Generation X goes slack on sex. Ok, so I’m Mormon, so naturally I’m already a bit more on the conservative side than most of Generation X.  But still!  I think the person writing the article was insinuating we need to loosen up. As our parents (and I’ve already pointed out what boneheads they were) and the Generations below us are a lot more “free.”  Well if “free” means and entire Generation of Paris Hilton’s, may I die now?  And if “free” means another virus even worse than AIDS (now that we’ve got that one under somewhat control) then I guess we deserve whatever comes.  What is wrong with a generation that actually values relationships and families?  See here to see the divorce rate increase while we were young. Ya good job mom’s and dad’s of America. We were the latch-key generation, and now studies are surprisingly finding power-women from top-tier schools are deciding to be stay at home moms.  And why is this so bad? We are smart women, who know that we would rather raise our children our way, where we have influence over them, than leave them to some pre-school teacher (who doesn’t have nearly the education or experience we have) or some high school teacher (who could possibly molest them). We have gone through divorces and seen what it does to us.  We value relationships, and I hope that our children will be better for it.