Stop complaining about the way patents are raising kids today versus twenty years ago

[Anonymous]

Bunmi said it perfectly (and this is why we are crazy!)

“How To Be A Mom in 2017: Make sure your children’s academic, emotional, psychological, mental, spiritual, physical, nutritional, and social needs are met while being careful not to overstimulate, improperly medicate, helicopter, or neglect them in a screen-free, processed foods-free, GMO-free, negative energy-free, plastic-free, body positive, socially conscious, egalitarian but also authoritative, nurturing but fostering independence, gentle but not overly permissive, pesticide-free, two story, multilingual home preferably in a cul-de-sac with a backyard and 1.5 siblings spaced at least two years apart for proper development also don’t forget the coconut oil.
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How To Be A Mom In Literally Every Generation Before Ours: Feed them sometimes.
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-Bunmi Laditan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see the people who want to create divisiveness and hatred have found this page or at least have influenced the posters through other sources. We are not going to find a better way forward if we keep pointing fingers at others and don’t take responsibility for ourselves.

You don’t even go here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:and why won't the boomers retire? Get out of that job you're not doing and let someone else have it.

They didn't save well for retirement.

Actually it’s healthcare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bunmi said it perfectly (and this is why we are crazy!)

“How To Be A Mom in 2017: Make sure your children’s academic, emotional, psychological, mental, spiritual, physical, nutritional, and social needs are met while being careful not to overstimulate, improperly medicate, helicopter, or neglect them in a screen-free, processed foods-free, GMO-free, negative energy-free, plastic-free, body positive, socially conscious, egalitarian but also authoritative, nurturing but fostering independence, gentle but not overly permissive, pesticide-free, two story, multilingual home preferably in a cul-de-sac with a backyard and 1.5 siblings spaced at least two years apart for proper development also don’t forget the coconut oil.
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How To Be A Mom In Literally Every Generation Before Ours: Feed them sometimes.
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-Bunmi Laditan

I LOVE Bunmi

[Anonymous]

Kids have not changed. There are an awful lot of overindulgent millennials, all of whom seem to thing their children are gifted, special needs or both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this has anything to do with millennials or the economy or anything listed here. Anyone who has taught or worked with children over the past 20-30 years can tell you that parents are massively more anxious and hovering than they used to be, and this is due to one thing: the Internet. Since the late 1990s parents have made the internet into an echo chamber of their anxieties, causing everything from the ridiculous anti-vaccine movement to the epidemic of “have you had your child tested??” diagnoses.

And most of the parents doing all of this have been Gen X, not Millenials.

I guess it's nice to have one's existence acknowledged - a rare occurrence -- even if it's only to be blamed.

-Gen Xer

Yeah, me too. I was going to say something but then thought I'd just shrug, roll my eyes, and adjust my flannel shirt and ripped jeans instead. We are raising the bleeding edge of iGen, if that name sticks, the first generation who grew up knowing how to swipe an iPhone before they knew how to feed themselves. We'll see how we did. My 12 year old is pretty damn awesome, and I think they are going to be fine. For what it is worth I think Millenials are fine, too - in some respects they are just the mirror of the Boomers who raised them. And if Millenials disrupt the workplace enough that my son comes of age into a world where its expected that we treat staff as people with needs and frailties and not as widgets...well, then, I bless them. And if in the end snowflake Millenials make it so that fewer LGBTQ kids are bullied, and fewer racists can hurt people, I thank them for that, too. Carry on.

funny you mention the future, widgets, and caring workplaces.

We are headed toward increasingly automated workplaces. That means far fewer jobs for a lot more people. That does not portend well for a more caring workplace for our children.

And I am all for less bullying of anyone, and less racism.

But the increasing "sensitivity" of todays snowflakes, and ever-increasing number of genders (ie children we have confused) suggests ever-increasing "micro-aggressions" and other fictions - that actually diminish the fight against real racism and bigotry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Generational warfare is just as bad as class warfare. Just stop.

There’s nothing wrong with class warfare. Rich MFers started it, and now are afraid because we’re going to finish them, err, it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, OP. Just no.

We will complain about you and your parenting style compared the past. Deal with it (whithout running off to your "safe space").

You millenials are the most self-absorbed, narcissistic, infantile generation ever. Your so immature, they now have offer remedial classes to adult millenials just to learn how to "adult!"

https://www.kxnet.com/news/bismarck-news/-adulting-classes-teach-millennials-basic-adult-life-skills/1663377272

Pathetic. I can only imagine what confused little brats you must be raising.

Ha ha ha! Yes, exactly.

[Anonymous]

Clarifying question - I'm a Gen-Xer -- and was raised by a baby boomer and a lost generation-er. Aren't most gen-x ers' parents baby boomers?

[Anonymous]

Parents have it harder today. It's a globalized world and everything is so much more competitive and expensive. A dumb mistake can be publicized on social media. Parents are under an unfair microscope that no other previous generation can even imagine. In addition, parents are now practically on call with their jobs 24/7. Boomers could NEVER handle the pressures of work and family life these days.

If Boomers don't like what parenting has become, then - for the love of god - change the world. You have all the wealth and most of the political power; you can help Americans families by funding schools, providing meaningful childcare assistance, and just generally making the lives of families better.

It take a village to raise productive members of society, but I feel like Boomers simply want to burn the village to the ground as they exit this world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baby Boomer here who did not benefit from any of the items you mentioned. I just worked two jobs when I could so that I wouldn't have massive student debt, and if I couldn't afford it I didn't buy it. I kept my cars for ten plus years and keep my smart phone forever, resisting the urge to have the newest and best. That's something your generation has perfected, the need for instant gratification and if you don't get it, you point your little fingers at everybody else, it's always someone else's fault, always. Not buying into your pity part, actually a little sick of your generation. Who are you going to blame when we all die out? No worries, I know you'll find someone or thing to blame other than yourself. Go take your nap.
Oh no, you'e not allowed to complain about having graduated into the worst economy since the Great Depression, or about having massive student debt that Baby Boomers didn't have. That makes you narcissistic.

Are you delusional? I worked three jobs, went to school full time, and still had massive student debt. That is because school just COSTS more now. That $7 minimum wage goes a hell lot less far than it did 30 years ago. FWIW, I paid off that massive debt by working at a job I hated and doing without, just praying I didn’t get sick or injured in a car accident because that could have quite literally destroyed my life. I was well into my 30s before I could buy a house. The Boomer who sold that to me made a tidy 200% profit.

To be honest, I can’t wait until your generation dies off. You climbed up the ladder your parents left for you and pulled it up behind you. You destroyed the social fabric of this country with your conspiracy theories and unending greed. See, e.g., the Great Recession, caused by your lies and your cheap McMansions you just had to fill with the latest in faux Tuscan garbage. You voted for bad policies that benefit corporations at the expense of people. Right when our country is about to break under the weight of your senior entitlements (that’s what they are, even if you paid 1% of the cost for them), you give yourselves a fat tax cut. You start dumb wars to keep the $ flowing and the people scared. My infant son will be paying off your debts for the rest of his life. When you die, we can start to clean up the mess.

It will mean more doing without, but we millennials are pros at that by now.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baby Boomer here who did not benefit from any of the items you mentioned. I just worked two jobs when I could so that I wouldn't have massive student debt, and if I couldn't afford it I didn't buy it. I kept my cars for ten plus years and keep my smart phone forever, resisting the urge to have the newest and best. That's something your generation has perfected, the need for instant gratification and if you don't get it, you point your little fingers at everybody else, it's always someone else's fault, always. Not buying into your pity part, actually a little sick of your generation. Who are you going to blame when we all die out? No worries, I know you'll find someone or thing to blame other than yourself. Go take your nap.
Oh no, you'e not allowed to complain about having graduated into the worst economy since the Great Depression, or about having massive student debt that Baby Boomers didn't have. That makes you narcissistic.

Are you delusional? I worked three jobs, went to school full time, and still had massive student debt. That is because school just COSTS more now. That $7 minimum wage goes a hell lot less far than it did 30 years ago. FWIW, I paid off that massive debt by working at a job I hated and doing without, just praying I didn’t get sick or injured in a car accident because that could have quite literally destroyed my life. I was well into my 30s before I could buy a house. The Boomer who sold that to me made a tidy 200% profit.

To be honest, I can’t wait until your generation dies off. You climbed up the ladder your parents left for you and pulled it up behind you. You destroyed the social fabric of this country with your conspiracy theories and unending greed. See, e.g., the Great Recession, caused by your lies and your cheap McMansions you just had to fill with the latest in faux Tuscan garbage. You voted for bad policies that benefit corporations at the expense of people. Right when our country is about to break under the weight of your senior entitlements (that’s what they are, even if you paid 1% of the cost for them), you give yourselves a fat tax cut. You start dumb wars to keep the $ flowing and the people scared. My infant son will be paying off your debts for the rest of his life. When you die, we can start to clean up the mess.

It will mean more doing without, but we millennials are pros at that by now.

+1000

I think I’m technically the end of Gen X (1980) but I agree too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baby Boomer here who did not benefit from any of the items you mentioned. I just worked two jobs when I could so that I wouldn't have massive student debt, and if I couldn't afford it I didn't buy it. I kept my cars for ten plus years and keep my smart phone forever, resisting the urge to have the newest and best. That's something your generation has perfected, the need for instant gratification and if you don't get it, you point your little fingers at everybody else, it's always someone else's fault, always. Not buying into your pity part, actually a little sick of your generation. Who are you going to blame when we all die out? No worries, I know you'll find someone or thing to blame other than yourself. Go take your nap.
Oh no, you'e not allowed to complain about having graduated into the worst economy since the Great Depression, or about having massive student debt that Baby Boomers didn't have. That makes you narcissistic.

Are you delusional? I worked three jobs, went to school full time, and still had massive student debt. That is because school just COSTS more now. That $7 minimum wage goes a hell lot less far than it did 30 years ago. FWIW, I paid off that massive debt by working at a job I hated and doing without, just praying I didn’t get sick or injured in a car accident because that could have quite literally destroyed my life. I was well into my 30s before I could buy a house. The Boomer who sold that to me made a tidy 200% profit.

To be honest, I can’t wait until your generation dies off. You climbed up the ladder your parents left for you and pulled it up behind you. You destroyed the social fabric of this country with your conspiracy theories and unending greed. See, e.g., the Great Recession, caused by your lies and your cheap McMansions you just had to fill with the latest in faux Tuscan garbage. You voted for bad policies that benefit corporations at the expense of people. Right when our country is about to break under the weight of your senior entitlements (that’s what they are, even if you paid 1% of the cost for them), you give yourselves a fat tax cut. You start dumb wars to keep the $ flowing and the people scared. My infant son will be paying off your debts for the rest of his life. When you die, we can start to clean up the mess.

It will mean more doing without, but we millennials are pros at that by now.

+1000

I think I’m technically the end of Gen X (1980) but I agree too.

+1

BRAVO. Well said!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents have it harder today. It's a globalized world and everything is so much more competitive and expensive. A dumb mistake can be publicized on social media. Parents are under an unfair microscope that no other previous generation can even imagine. In addition, parents are now practically on call with their jobs 24/7. Boomers could NEVER handle the pressures of work and family life these days.

If Boomers don't like what parenting has become, then - for the love of god - change the world. You have all the wealth and most of the political power; you can help Americans families by funding schools, providing meaningful childcare assistance, and just generally making the lives of families better.

It take a village to raise productive members of society, but I feel like Boomers simply want to burn the village to the ground as they exit this world.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids have not changed. There are an awful lot of overindulgent millennials, all of whom seem to thing their children are gifted, special needs or both.

+1

Thank you.