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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Millennials have never grown up. [/quote]

Yeah, it is becoming more and more apparent.  Unfortunately now they're raising kids.  Yikes.  This is an accident that's happening before our very eyes.[/quote]

They have kids, daycare workers, teachers and grandparents are raising them [/quote]
Ah, yes, because Boomers and Gen X never had teachers or grandparents help them raise their kids... (please note the dripping sarcasm).[/quote]

In my case my parents and nearly all my friends parents were First Generation Irish, German, Italian etc. None of them had zero help from family or could afford to pay for anything at all to help raise their kids.

My co-workers and nieces and nephews who are Millennials it takes an entire village to raise two kids. Like day care during school year, camps in summer, after school programs, baby sitters, in-laws covering, maid, lawn service, handimen, tutors, pre-cooked meals. All for 1-2 kids. [/quote]
If your parents didn't have family to help and couldn't afford to hire help, what did they do with their kids? Did both parents work? Did they leave the kids with neighbors? Did the toddlers raise themselves?

My husband and I (Millennials) both work full time and are transplants to the area (as are a lot of people in the DMV) without family nearby to help, so, yes, we send our kids to daycare and summer camp. And we clean our own house, mow our own lawn, do our own home repairs, and cook our own meals.

To OP's original question, the house I grew up in in the suburban Midwest is a lot like my current house in Northern Virginia, except I grew up with two full-time-working blue collar parents and the regular help of both sets of grandparents who lived nearby, plus babysitters and after school programs and summer camps. Those things aren't some unique Millennial-parent need that no generation has used before.[/quote]

I went to day camps as a kid, and did programs through parks and rec. We had babysitters and family watch us. And my mom was a SAHM and this was considered normal! People did not criticize my mom for letting “other people raise her kids” — they congratulated her on making sure we had a variety of experiences in life so we became well rounded people.

Meanwhile working moms were vilified for having “latch key kids”. So in recent years, working parents send kids to aftercare and camps instead. And what happens? They are criticized for the same things my mom was congratulated for.[/quote]

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