What is a Baby Boomer Anyway?

We tend to use the term, baby boomer, to refer to middle aged people these days. But what, exactly, is a baby boomer? You may be very surprised to know that this issue generates some debate.

Baby Boom: After WWII, the returning soldiers tended to start their post-war lives. This met an increase in weddings. This lead to an increase in babies. So the baby boom usually refers to the post-war increase in families in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. There was also an increase in the birth rate in Russia (Sputnik Generation), and in Western Europe. Being an American, I think that most of us tend to think of the baby boom as a US thing, but it really spread over much of the world.

Birth Years of Baby Boomers : Here is where the debate starts. The term has been applied to babies who were born between 1946 and 1964, but this is an 18 year spread. Technically, a baby born in 1946 could grow up and have a child in 1964. So would the offspring of a baby boomer also be considered a baby boomer?

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Is There Anything Funny About Being Over 50?

Well, we cannot do much about our birthdate, but laughter is good for us anyway. So it is time to recycle some boomer jokes! These may not make you laugh out loud, but hopefully you will smile. Actually, for many of us, middle age is a great tme of life. So don’t let these get you down. They are just jokes!

 

When You’re Over 50…

You have a party and your neighbors do not complain because they don’t even know it.
You don’t worry about secrets because your friends don’t remember them either.
You can live without sex, but not without your glasses.

Advantage of Being Over 50….

The only way to relieve the frustration of being fifty-something is to constantly seek new ways of irritating the young. Fortunately in old age, you develop the ability to do this naturally in every single thing you do or say. (If you still have teen or young adult kids, you’ll get this one.)

Over the Hill?
•I much prefer being over the hill to being under it.
- Bruce Lansky
•”Don’t worry about senility,” my grandfather used to say. “When it hits you, you won’t know it.”
-Bill Cosby
•The cardiologist’s diet:
if it tastes good, spit it out.
- Paulina Borsook

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