My dad is a baby boomer. We were talking once about “thin skinned millennials” and he said, “Well, I know a lot thin skinned baby boomers too.”
We like to think our generation is special and those who come after/before us are deficient in some way. Few things show our ego like that way of thinking.
Most also miss the innate silliness/irony of complaining about a generation of “slackers”, “thin skinned babies”, etc while being unaware who raised them.
On a side note, I hope things work out with your son bro.