Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--And More (Paperback) by Jean M Twenge

from robinamelia

A must-read. I want to underline every sentence. She sums up so perfectly what we Baby Boomers have done to the current generation. Basically, they are an exaggerated distortion of the ideals we held about self-actualization. So isn't the Christian ethos, so powerful in this country, standing as ...

from dramady

Awesome. She's so right on the money, and her analysis should be the starting point for other research on this generation. She incorporates a lot of examples from different disciplines. Funny and smart. The end some might consider very politicized, but while that might stray from the overall book...

from swmproblems

One of the best books that I've read in a long time. I say that a lot but this entire book is easy to read and fun to see on paper a book of studies that I've thought a lot about through the years. I don't know if that makes any sense but I look forward to reading the other book by her. And she's...

from MizPati

This book gives a synoptic view into why it is difficult to relate, teach or even help today's youth. Their attitude is not innate but rather the result of a society that dwells on the systematic need to gratify whether it is warranted or not.

from LibraryCin

What the author, a professor of psychology, calls "Generation Me" has also been referred to as "Millennials" and "Generation Y" - people born primarily in the 1980s and 1990s. She compares studies of three generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X and "GenMe", with the focus on GenMe, and brings th...