24 Quotes by Jean M. Twenge

By 2014, more 18- to 34-year-olds were living with their parents than with a spouse or romantic partner.

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.

The trends that have shaped iGen are the usual mix of good and bad, with a healthy amount of “it depends” thrown in.

We protect children from danger, real and imaginary, and are then surprised when they go to college and create safe spaces designed to repel the real world.

In the next decade we may see more young people who know just the right emoji for a situation – but not the right facial expression.

Managers who can give them some security, along with some nurturance, may well find themselves with the hardest-working group of young people to come along in a decade or even two.