Quotes from Jean M. Twenge

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Some suggest that this cocoon mentality is behind recent campus trends such as "trigger warnings" to alert students that a reading or lecture material might be disturbing and "safe spaces" where students can go if they are upset by a campus speaker's message. One safe space, for example, featured coloring books and videos of frolicking puppies, neatly connecting the idea of safe spaces with that of childhood.

All in all, iGen'ers are increasingly disconnected from human relationships—

Everyone likes me and thinks I'm great in my safe space / We can face almost anything, but reality we can do without.")

many iGen students seem to see their schools as behind the times, irrelevant in a fast-paced world of constantly changing technology.

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Haley's view is the famous couplet "Better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all" turned on its head: to her, it's better not to have loved, because what if you lose it?

Our lives are strikingly different from the lives of those in decades past, primarily due to the technology we rely on.

Races, socioeconomic groups, and regions differ in their religious service attendance much more than they did a few decades ago. The religious landscape is now more polarized based on identity.

magazine summed up the popular view of women at the time: "She works rather casually… less toward a big career than as a way of filling a hope chest or buying a new home freezer. She gracefully concedes the top job rungs to men." This was often true even well into the 1960s, although the concession was not always graceful.

We're not number one, but we're number one in thinking we are number one.

Most of the time, the bars were tipped off, so patrons scattered and proprietors hid the alcohol (most operated without a liquor license, partially because it was illegal to sell alcohol to LGBT individuals in New York State until 1966). If they were arrested, most went with police quietly.

featured a sample of women's magazine article headlines from the 1950s: "Have Babies While You're Young," "Are You Training Your Daughter to Be a Wife?" "Don't Be Afraid to Marry Young," and "The Business of Running a Home"—a collection unsurprising to post-Boomer generations accustomed to hearing about the domesticity of the past.

technology means there is more to learn before becoming a productive adult. With the economy shifting away from agriculture and toward knowledge-based jobs, more education becomes necessary. As a result, it takes longer to grow to adulthood—you can no longer start working full-time at 12, as my grandfather did, and have all the skills you need. Instead, it takes until 18, 22, or longer to finish education and begin full-time work, one measure of reaching adulthood.

iGen'ers bring new attitudes about communication. Many don't understand why anyone uses email when texting is so much faster. "For a while, I thought email was what people meant when they referred to 'snail mail,' " wrote 16-year-old Vivek Pandit in his book We Are Generation Z. "Eventually I realized that snail mail was the paper stuff that [takes] days to reach someone. I call that 'ancient mail.

Just as iGen'ers and Millennials are avoiding institutions such as religion and marriage, more and more of them are refusing to identify with the major political parties.

More young people are experiencing not just symptoms of depression, and not just feelings of anxiety, but clinically diagnosable major depression...

Cake is merely a frosting delivery mechanism. Unfortunately,

There's a natural human tendency to classify things as all good or all bad, but with cultural changes, it's better to see the gray areas and the trade-offs.

Kinnaman found that 36% of young adults with a Christian background said that they didn't feel they could "ask my most pressing life questions in church.

Junk the self-esteem emphasis and teach self-control and good behavior. Self-esteem has limited benefit, whereas self-control is linked to success in life. Leave behind the obsession with specialness and uniqueness. Do not automatically side with your child.

iGen'ers are addicted to their phones, and they know it. Many also know it's not entirely a good thing. It's clear that most teens (and adults) would be better off if they spent less time with screens. "Social media is destroying our lives," one teen told Nancy Jo Sales in her book American Girls. "So why don't you go off it?" Sales asked. "Because then we would have no life," the girl said.

Along with the direct impacts of technology, individualism and a slower life trajectory are the key trends that define the generations of the 20th and 21st centuries.

self-esteem does not cause high grades-instead, high grades cause higher self-esteem. So self-esteem programs clearly put the cart before the horse in trying to increase self-esteem. ...Self-esteem is an outcome, not a cause. It doesn't do much good to encourage a child to feel good about himself just to feel good; this doesn't mean anything. Children develop true self-esteem from behaving well and accomplishing things.