Mind the Gap

by Codrington, Graeme; Grant-Marshall, Sue

• ISBN13: 9780143024453
• ISBN10: 0143024450
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-16
• Publisher: Penguin Global

Summary

This book is for you if you want to know why your 18-year-old son isn't interested in being a doctor-he wants to save the whales, or why your grandfather gives you Big Band CDs for your birthday. This book is also for you if your secretary knows more than you do or your grandson calls you Peter instead of granddad. In short, this book aims to promote understanding between the generations. This is vitally important in our most defining relationships-those between parents and children. We are so influenced by our parents that understanding them will help us to understand why they influence us-and, therefore, help us to better understand ourselves. What can be learned from this book can be extended to all other relationships-with bosses, teachers, grandparents and so on. Once you understand their 'generational' behaviour, you'll have a clearer picture of why they are like they are. So, chuck the tranquillisers and read this book. Life will never be the same again!

Table of Contents

Choose Your Generation	1	(1)
Introducing the Generations	2	(8)
What is `Generation'?	10	(15)
GI (Hero) Generation: Born 1900s to 1920s	25	(5)
Silent Generation: Born 1920s to 1940s	30	(6)
Baby Boomer Generation: Born 1940s to 1960s	36	(11)
Xer Generation: Born 1960s to 1980s	47	(9)
Millennial Generation: Born 1980s to 2000s	56	(13)
If you don't fit in . . . you could be a `Cusper'	69	(5)
Parenting the Generations	74	(30)
Educating the Generations	104	(21)
Training the Generations	125	(8)
Generations @ Work	133	(40)
Advertising to the Generations	173	(23)
Leading the Generations	196	(25)
Politics and the Generations	221	(12)
Generations at church	233	(23)
Healthy Generations	256	(27)
`Re-tyreing' the Generations	283	(14)
Finances	297	(3)
The Generations @ home	300	(3)
Travelling with the Generations	303	(8)
Concluding the Generations	311	(6)
Bibliography and further reading	317