Sitting in your car, AC blowing for a few minutes here and there, you wait for the others to arrive. Your child is headed to a small group training, trying to up their skill in their beloved sport. With a forty-ounce, latest-fad water bottle in tow, the young teen leaves the car with hardly a good-bye and makes the jaunt over to the coach. You check that they muster the ability to hand the cash over before they carry on and begin to warm up.

You need to decide whether or not to wait out the hour or if it is worth it to try and run errands in the short time. It's that evening rush that is anything but peaceful. Your evenings, now regularly interrupted by a generation of kids who have a need to live their best life, are not what you imagined it to be and definitely not how your parents had it.

You may not describe yourself as genX, and you definitely are not a boomer…

What you are is part of the dehydrated generation.