Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X & Boomers have completely different ideas of what counts as "struggling"

Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X & Boomers have completely different ideas of what counts as "struggling"

A boomer at a family dinner hears his granddaughter say she’s been struggling, and he almost says something. He doesn’t, but his face does. Because struggling, to him, means something specific, and what she’s describing doesn’t sound like it. She sees the face. She stops talking about it. And the thing neither of them realizes is that they’re both right. They’re just not using the same word the same way. For boomers, struggling means you can’t p…