BOOMER MOMS KNOW

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If you love something, don’t set it free like boomer moms were set free.

Boomer moms know all about love. Good love, bad love, boomer moms know the love cycle.

First they were enchanted by the big strong men around them, the dads and uncles and neighbors.

Then it was the young men who reminded them of the Greatest Generation dads.

Boomer moms got attached to big strong men growing up.

Then they met musicians and English majors, singers and poets who starved their bodies to feed their souls.

And it was all groovy.

Joe Jockstrap with his crew cut wasn’t the cool guy to sensitive boomer moms before they were moms.

After the droopy boyfriends dropped off, boomer moms realigned their sites on the natural selection of big strong men.

They needed some protection from the hurt of the poet singers who played a bad guitar, but good enough for a time.

Boomer moms became moms and knew they could raise their boys and girls into thoughtful considerate adults.

Peace and love between the lion and the lamb was the dream.

In the 1980’s and 90’s kid sports took off, and so did boomer moms’ kids.

Instead of dance class it was soccer games; instead of recital halls it was sports fields.

They’ve seen friends and acquaintances disappear in a cloud of despair until the last news you hear is a death notice.

They’ve seen others’ kids take roads less traveled by anyone only to dead end in hopelessness.

Boomer moms have been called helicopter parents and worse, but they’ve done everything they can to keep their kids on track.

Boomer dads might be shiftless drifters who play their role convincingly enough, but for boomer moms it’s not a role. It’s their life.

The next time you hear some millennial bashing, check your company before joining that ignorant rant.

The last thing you need is a boomer mom in your ear.