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iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--And Completely Unprepared
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--And Completely Unprepared | Jean M Twenge
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A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen--the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later--are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today's rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and later, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person--perhaps why they are experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. iGen is also growing up more slowly than previous generations: eighteen-year-olds look and act like fifteen-year-olds used to. As this new group of young people grows into adulthood, we all need to understand them: Friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation--and the world.
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JesseConley
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Just getting started on iGen. Gets mixed reviews and I hear it has lots of stats... But it should be an interesting topic.

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AndreaG1

How best to help them? Encourage face to face time, get them out of the house, prepare them for debate and new ideas, make them get a drivers license build their residency skills!

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LibraryCin
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Mehso-so

Fascinatiing. She includes a lot of statistics in the book; I like that she is able to compare the generations, but when all the generations were teens and young adults, due to surveys that have been done since the 1970s. there are a lot of graphs, which are hard to read on my small Kobo screen. The author did a lot of interviews, so she can take some of the stories from the interviews to highlight some of the findings. Very interesting book.

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Cedar_and_Grapefruit
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There it is... So sad.

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Gina
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A moment of silence please...

Tamra 👍🏾👍🏾 5y
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DoubleARon
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I grabbed this book on the strength of a recommendation and the whim of my local library displaying it. It was a fascinating drive into the statistics (oxymoron, I know!) of what makes the latest generation to reach adulthood unique. The things that drive them, their tendencies, and their outlooks, all generated by 11 million surveys of the members of iGen. As a teacher, I found it fascinating and enlightening.

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Cortg
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Pickpick

Living AND working with this generation, I can‘t say I learned a ton, but I did learn some. These kids have some pros and some cons to their “lifestyle” but overall I think they will be a great generation as they grow into adults. I am curious what they will officially be called.

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Cortg
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When one book leads to another book AND TED talk. This is why my TBR list is so damn long! 😊

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Cortg
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Finally making some time to read! My puppers is away for a 3 week doggie boot camp to get some socialization and manners. I miss him so much! Left: Angus on his way to boot camp. Right: First day at boot camp 🐶🐾🐾🐾 #dogsoflitsy

britt_brooke Oh, he‘s so cute!! 5y
Jinjer I love him and his name, Angus💕 5y
rubyslippersreads He looks like he‘s having fun at camp. 😊🐶 5y
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Cortg @britt_brooke Thanks! 5y
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Cortg @rubyslippersreads We call him “The Attention Whore” and he‘ll be gettin A LOT of one on one attention with his training 😉 5y
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Cortg
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On my new, 5 min. work commute (😃) I caught a bit of an interview on this book. I‘m about 5 pages in and hooked! This is my kids generation and I work with a lot of teens and tweens. I‘m super curious about what this generation will be like as they enter the workforce!

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Gina
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A detail of my wallet purse themed bookstore of course.

And a ted talk about being bored.

https://www.facebook.com/1635900837/posts/10215388018807109/

That's all folks! Keep moving along...

wanderinglynn Love your wallet! What gorgeous detail! 😍😍😍 6y
Gina @wanderinglynn thanks♡ 6y
Reviewsbylola That‘s so cute! 6y
Gina @Reviewsbylola ♡♡♡ 6y
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Gina
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I have seen my kids stare zombified at their screens to which I reply, daydreaming is the balm to what ails you my dear...

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GingerAntics

Is this author seriously suggesting that kids being less rebellious and more tolerant is a bad thing? The less happy and not prepared thing can be worked on, but is she honestly suggesting that in the process we should aim to make children more rebellious and less tolerant? Her three kids must be really interesting people.

Side Note: I‘m a GenY and I was never prepared for adulthood either. That‘s not new. My phone has actually helped with that.

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Ange44
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I'm reading this now. As a Generation X'er, it's interesting to learn about this newest generation. Times have sure changed!

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GerardtheBookworm
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Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials. Now we have I-Geners, a generation of kids born during the age of the internet and technology. With the convenience of electronics, this new future is growing up with the obsession for social media, cyberbullying and a more disconnective society. SDSU professor examines this group who have a pragmatic view of social and political issues, dating, and economics. Deeply fascinating.

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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 8! Just released. This book looks at the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s. Technology, the first ones to grow up with smartphones for example, is not the only differential with this group: how they allot their time; views on religion, sex, politics; how they socialize; etc., are looked at. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

BookBabe Omg! Must read! 😮 7y
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