Parenting

i Am A Generation iY Groupie Parent

I was at a convention recently and heard a fascinating summation of a new breed of parents.  Of course, what captured my attention and scared me was that I could see myself in some of what he was describing.

The speaker was Dr. Tim Elmore.  The topic was parenting the iY Generation.  iY’s are the children born in the latest wave (after 1990) of Generation Y or the Millennials.  Elmore has done a lot of homework on this generation.  I would know because with five iY children in my family, I have my own subset of the population to test his theories on.

However, it was not Elmore’s analysis of the iY children but of their parents that you might want to think about.  He calls us Groupie Parents.  I am afraid he has good cause.  Just as a groupie idolizes a rock star, groupie parents idolize their children.  I was deeply convicted and am rapidly making some parenting adjustments on my 5iY’s as I now call them.  Here is the short take on Groupie Parents from Dr. Elmore’s book Generation iY Our Last Chance to Save Their Future.

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