Just something I've been thinking about now that I'm 40. A complete lack of leadership and mentoring from the boomers.

Parents were just focused on academic success and getting me off to college. Never learned to use tools, tend to plants and animals, do sports or hunt.

In my career, I was just given lots of responsibility and risk. No mentoring or leadership. No actual control to go along with the responsibility.

Was it like this for anyone else? Now that I'm middle aged and see the problem, I'm trying to be different for the younger generation.