Talking about Generations

I’ve already written about how unprepared and unqualified many Brazilian teachers are.  However, I haven’t yet spoken about how unprepared our own children are, when it comes to learning. The 2009 June edition of the Brazilian magazine “ISTO E,” contained an article titled ““Profissão de risco: professor” (“Teachers:  A Risky Profession.”) The fact is that [...]

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The video above is from “Super News,” a great online show that’s always entertaining especially when it comes to its references and illustrations. I would describe the show’s humor as post “South Park” and “Family Guy.” This show deals with Generation Y’s dominance over technology and the Baby Boomers. The main problem between these two [...]

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Can any baby boomer honestly claim that they aren’t afraid of getting old? “Old” just isn’t cool. I remember my grandmother, an old woman with a head of white hair, knitting in her rocking chair. She would cook for us, make us snacks, and was always around. Needless to say, she didn’t work. Women only [...]

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These days in Brazil, our kids often delay striking out to live on their own. I notice how this fills parents with conflicting emotions. On one hand, we want our kids to be mature enough to live alone, or with friends or a partner. On the other hand, as “helicopter parents,” we want them close [...]

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This video always gets to me.  I can watch it a thousand times, and yet it always touches me, giving me goose bumps. The video shows how groups of individuals, working together, can resolve problems. The fact is it makes me think, what society and businesses would be like, with a generation who liked to [...]

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I wanted you to watch this commercial. It’s a commercial for a famous sandal brand. As a kid, this was a typical commercial. I remember watching this on our TV, as a family, in our living room. Today, I ask myself, what on earth were we thinking? What possessed us to watch this? I think [...]

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Clip from the band “The Zimmers,” singing “Generation,” originally recorded by the British Rock Band “The Who” in 1965.

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I want to talk about Self Esteem and how it changes, between generations, according to our life experiences. My generation (the Baby Boomers) didn’t grow up thinking we were “hot stuff.” During our childhood, Brazil was going through a tough dictatorship. This did not help our Self Esteem. Brazil was not a BRIC at that [...]

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I really like this video. Not just because it’s funny, but because it’s true.  It reveals a bit about who the baby boomers are, and what their kids, Generation Y are like. First off, as a mother of two young adults, belonging to Generation Y, I must say that it’s all true.  Mothers want more [...]

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“If you tweet my post on Flickr, I’ll give you props on your blipper, and confirm your PR on my Facebook App.” When I hear a sentence like this, I get chills up my spine.  I feel that I’ll never “get there.”  I’ll never truly understand this new language that kids use when they talk [...]

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