I Need Counselling Pleads Gen Y Rep

Ryan Paugh doesn't want to be babied. What he needs, he tells the "adult" world, is old fashioned facilitation. That's not a Latin word for spanking. It means he wants counselling just like old dad used to give on the Leave It To Beaver show.

Wait a second. Is he saying that Gen Y wants to throw off the burden of new-fangled therapeutic coddling in favour of the tough-but-fair, man-to-man talks young fellows used to receive in days gone by?

Sounds like it to me. And you know what that means? Gen Y doesn't want to be different. It wants things to be the same as they were before.

Of course, things never were that way. I've never met a dad like Ward Cleaver. But I find the idea that Gen Y wants to go back to the future interesting.

See Also: Gen Y Coddled, Gen Y The Backlash Begins, Generational Smackdown, 2007 = 1969, Gen Y Hoax 1, Gen Y Hoax 2, Gen Y Hates Hippies