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As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal,
and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial
reading to understand how 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. 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 up to
the mid-2000s, 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 contributing to their 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.
With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, 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.
Trying to get pregnant is enough to make any woman impatient. "The
Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant "is a complete guide to
the medical, psychological, social, and sexual aspects of getting
pregnant, told in a funny, compassionate way, like talking to a
good friend who's been through it all. And in fact, Dr. Jean Twenge
"has "been through it all--the mother of three young children, she
started researching fertility when trying to conceive for the first
time. A renowned sociologist and professor at San Diego State
University, Dr. Twenge brought her research background to the huge
amount of information--sometimes contradictory, frequently
alarmist, and often discouraging-- that she encountered online,
from family and friends, and in books, and decided to go into the
latest studies to find out the real story.
The good news is: There is a lot "less "to worry about than you've
been led to believe. Dr. Twenge gets to the heart of the emotional
issues around getting pregnant, including how to prepare mentally
and physically when thinking about conceiving; how to talk about it
with family, friends, and your partner; and how to handle the great
sadness of a miscarriage. Also covered is how to know when you're
ovulating, when to have sex, timing your pregnancy, maximizing your
chances of getting pregnant, how to tilt the odds toward having a
boy or a girl, and the best prenatal diet.
Trying to conceive often involves an enormous amount of emotion,
from anxiety and disappointment to hope and joy. With comfort,
humor, and straightforward advice, "The Impatient Woman's Guide to
Getting Pregnant "is the bedside companion to help you through it.
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.
In this provocative and newly revised book, headline-making
psychologist Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she
calls "Generation Me" are tolerant, confident, open-minded, and
ambitious but also disengaged, narcissistic, distrustful, and
anxious.
Born in the '80s, and '90s and called "The Entitlement Generation"
or Millennials, they are reshaping schools, colleges, and
businesses all over the country. The children of the Baby Boomers
are not only feeling the effects of the recession and the changing
job market--they are affecting change the world over. Now, in this
new edition of "Generation Me," Dr. Twenge incorporates the latest
research, data, and statistics, as well as new stories and cultural
references, to show how "Gen Me-ers" have shifted the American
character, redefining what it means to be an individual in today's
society.
Dr. Twenge uses data from 11 million respondents to reveal shocking
truths about this generation, including dramatic differences in
sexual behavior and religious practice, and controversial
predictions about what the future holds for them and society as a
whole. Her often humorous, eyebrow-raising stories about real
people vividly bring to life the hopes, disappointments, and
challenges of Generation Me. Engaging, controversial, prescriptive,
and funny, "Generation Me" gives Boomers and GenX'ers new and
fascinating insights into their offspring, and helps those in their
teens, twenties, and thirties find their road to happiness.
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