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Understanding High Maintenance Parents: Insights from Generation X

Explore the unique characteristics and expectations of Generation X parents, born between 1965-1979. Often characterized as high maintenance, these parents are determined to provide their children with the nurturing and support they felt they missed. With backgrounds in divorced families and ample time in daycare, Generation X parents emphasize communication and accountability. They seek educational environments that are challenging and imaginative, aiming to heal childhood wounds while fostering a collaborative relationship with educators. Learn effective strategies for working with them.

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Understanding High Maintenance Parents: Insights from Generation X

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  1. HMP = High Maintenance Parent = Generation X Who are they?

  2. Who are they?

  3. Generation X Parent • Born between 1965 – 1979 • Least parented • Least nurtured • ½ come from divorced families • Raised in record numbers in day care • 40% latchkey kids

  4. Generation X parents… • Have been taking care of themselves since they started elementary school • Don’t trust authority • Had parents that didn’t know what was going on at school • Had teachers that didn’t know what was going on at home

  5. Generation X Parents… • Are not going to let this happen to their children • Will make sure their children get what they need

  6. Generation X Parents… • Will go over your head if they don’t get the results they want from you • Anything that smacks of bureaucratic red tape or protocol is an irritant • Are quick to whip together a power point presentation to show you how to organize your classroom • Are the technology-revolution generation

  7. Generation X Parents… • Can be a little snotty • Rebel against worksheet-based homework • Complain that curriculum is not challenging, rich, or imaginative enough • Want schools to do everything: • Provide rigorous academic instruction • Socialize their children • Offer them valuable, rich cultural experiences

  8. What do they want?

  9. Generation X Parents… • Looking to schools to heal childhood wounds • They want: • To be taken seriously • To be paid attention to • To be given your time

  10. How do you cope with them?

  11. Tips on How to Cope • 1. Listen to us • 2. Include us • 3. Put us to work • 4. Give us limits • 5. Work with us

  12. How to effectively deal with HMPs? • 1. Put up boundaries • 2. Use policy • 3. Invite them in • 4. Meet – but you call the shots • 5. Show them the facts - proof • 6. Contact – give specific times

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