That action just screams Boomers. I don't know... we are getting older, so if you told me they were Gen Xers I wouldn't be shocked, but that kind of "Karen" behavior screams Boomers... A spoiled generation that was given everything and it wasn't enough so like locusts, they consumed everything until we are left with crumbling world we have now.
That's the stereotype, anyway, as I'm sure you're aware of.
Kids have this incredible sense of "fairness". You are around kids a lot at the school I imagine, so you probably see this. They are always measuring what everyone else gets and they want the same or it's unfair and they get angry.
I always tell my kids life isn't fair. Some people are born stronger, some are born smarter, some are born with a heart defect and die young, some are born with magic genes and will life to 99 despite abusing their body with every chemical, drug, and bad food known to man. We always have two choices: we can shake our fist at the heavens and curse the universe for this unfairness, or we can wish people the best and move on, doing the best with whatever we were given. The first option might feel good in the moment, but that anger is going to make you miserable and moreover the more anger we get over the unfairness of life, the more we will obsess over it and see it and the more angry we will get. It's a vicious cycle. Life is unfair. The sooner we accept this and stop shaking our fist at the heavens about it, the better.
Hmm.. I don't think my kids really understand that. But they know the lecture by now 😂 So maybe that's something.
I actually have to disagree about it being boomers. They were made of sturdier stuff. I think things were rough enough for them that they fully understood that crappy things sometimes happen. If anything I would guess it is genx or beyond. Somewhere along the lines we resented the fact that our parents were so tough or realistic with us that we ended up overcompensating and sugar coating the future for the following generations. Gen X started the wussification of America and I think pursuit of fairness is a byproduct of that. In my expert opinion anyway 😃.