They got things long before their parents did. Now, GenNext takes to giving Shalini Rawla You only live once – the mantra of the millennial generation (born circa 1990 ) is nothing but the result of helicopter parenting. Parents of this generation (born in the 1970s) chose to break down the traditional structure of parents-as-authority to parents-as-friends . They encouraged their children to share everything with them – their problems at work or in relationships. They even helped them do their homework and projects in school, and networked with their peers to get them an internship or a job in a good company. The new wave of social media stoked this discover-and-share attitude further. Brought up as trophy kids , this generation got an early exposure to all those things that their parents had to wait for, and perhaps earn – be it a hobby class, summer camp, their first mobile, laptop, a trip abroad, or even their first bike or car. Everything became a new exper...