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“Ways Millennials are Ruining Parenting”

Okay, but I have to share this dumb-ass fucking list and my gripes with it. Ignore me screaming into the void here if you’re not interested. There are two types of posts in this list: first are things that conservative parents think are wrong because they’re conservative, and there are things that probably piss off the older generation because they’re projecting. You know, when you know in your unconscious that something about you is wrong so you hate that fault in other people? Also, points where the poster seems to be conflating Gen Xers with Millennials, because it’s complaining about how people let their teenage/adult children act...

Don’t pretend the parents of Millennials didn’t drop them in front of a television when they needed a breather. That electronic babysitter would’ve been in restaurants with us as kids if our parents had the option, let’s be honest. And, I mean... lots of kids didn’t or don’t behave in restaurants. Giving them an ipad with a game while they wait just means more quiet dinners for everyone else. 

Imagine being upset that someone else is okay scrubbing shit off reusable diapers without it ever affecting you. And maybe if previous generations didn’t decide everything should be disposable we wouldn’t have so much of the environmental crisis we do, hm? Even if you don’t agree, that literally doesn’t affect you. 

Another thing Millennials did not invent: getting tattoos that don’t mean anything. Given, if your baby’s face is on it, it doesn’t mean nothing. And nobody is permanently altering their bodies for likes, they may be dumb but they genuinely thing it’s a good idea. 

No, you just made a home video and maybe sent it to AFV. Okay, maybe not you, but lots of people of your generation did. It’s not something Millennials invented. 

This is the one on the list that made me need to make a post about it. How is taking pictures of your pregnant belly not paying attention to the kid inside? And how is showing any skin mean you need to “go to church”. Grow the fuck up, a pregnant belly is not a sexual image, and even if it is, it’s not ruining anything if a woman wants to take one. That’s her own damn business. Cover your own bodies if it bothers you, but it’s not your business to cover anyone else’s.

I’ll take memes taken out of context and attributed to the wrong people for $200, Alex. Seriously, the Millennials making jokes about not being able to “adult” are generally not the ones with babies, they’re the ones who’re in their twenties living alone for the first time who don’t have any life skills because our education system and parents didn’t teach us that crap. Which is a problem with... our parents, not us. 

Grandma, sweetie, you’re the one who invented participation awards, not the Millennials. Remember ten years ago complaining about Millennials being given too many participation awards and that’s why we’re supposedly so fucked up? Can’t have it both ways. We can’t have gotten some from our parents and school and then gone and invented them to give to our kids. That would be... our parents. 

Again, AFV existed. So do movies like “Jackass” and we certainly weren’t the producers behind the reality TV that’s been on the air of people doing stupid stuff since we were children. We weren’t the first generation to ever do dumb stuff for attention, parents or not. 

Err, no, Linda. You might’ve forced your kids outside, but as a millennial child I sure remember having friends with their own cable TV in their bedrooms, I remember many a day spent with unlimited TV. Fuck, people have been complaining about kids with unlimited TV time since the beginning of the home TV. Anyone remember the kid from Willy Wonka? I rest my case. Millennials did not invent this. You didn’t even invent this one, your parents did.

You also raised your kids to not understand their own bodies and to be afraid to ever talk openly about them and some of us have found serious problems because of that down the line. For example, that tabooness definitely is a factor in kids’ embarrassment about being molested and being scared to tell because they think they did something wrong. Because you don’t talk about those things. That “modesty” and “dignity” in never talking about your body also keeps kids from ever learning about their body properly. 

Parents have been failing to straddle the line of parent and friend since the beginning of time. Again, not invented by Millennials. The background image adds icing to that cake because this is definitely a text between a mother and her teenage daughter... most Millennials with kids do not have teenaged children. The older ones are only 30. 

... and Americans have to pay through the nose to do so...? Birth at a hospital is not cheap???

... not all of you did. Lots of Millennial parents use real discipline for real problems. And lots of our parents were soft about discipline too. Not something we invented. 

How is balancing life with parenting a stupid trend, exactly? 

Every Millennial has a story of getting lost in a stupid place as children, c’mon. 

I will pay you to point me to a thirty year old or younger who has a kid who needs to visit with them rather than text them, because saying that implies the kid lives away from their parents and is in control of visiting parents, ergo an adult themselves. And parents can’t make or let their adult kids do anything-- they’re fucking adults.

Sorry, I think I hallucinated my entire childhood. But I seem to recall a pretty unhealthy trend back when I was a kid of parents enforcing a “if it’s on your plate you have to eat it” rule which has led to many people to have unhealthy eating habits into adulthood. It was usually accompanied by some sort of rhetoric about starving kids in Africa? No? Never happened? Must be my bad. *eyeroll*

Okay, this is pretty stupid to me... but the argument of why this is stupid is complete bullshit. You can do stupid shit like this and still go out and work hard. You don’t live to work. You have time off. And this is coming from a generation of workers who weren’t expected to work sixty hour weeks just to put food on the table on the regular like many Millennials are. 

Cars are dangerous too, you know??? They’re one of the most deadly things on this earth. You shouldn’t try to be trendy and put babies in cars, Boomers.

Sorry for being less focused on gender roles and forcing women to stay in the home and dads to be the breadwinners. Our bad? We say, more power to the man if he wants to be the one who stays home with the baby. Home work is hard work! It fucking /is/ supporting your family.

Wow, it’s almost like Millennials don’t just have a single brain between them, imagine that. 

I sure hope you don’t call yourself a feminist with the previous two posts there, fucker. Also, kids aren’t sexy. No matter how much or how little skin a kid is showing, they ain’t dressed sexy. Stop projecting sexuality onto kids, ya’ll. 

I’m usually the first to protest against stupid baby names, but I know Millennials with stupid baby names too. We didn’t invent that.

Either we never let them go outside or we’re doing extreme sports with them. It can’t be both, boomers. Make up your minds! /sarcasm

That didn’t stop lots of parents in your generation from doing the same shit, eh? Nursery aesthetics aren’t for the babies, they’re for the parents and family. Same with first birthday parties, and ya’ll threw lots of them for Millennials when we were one. 

I think we’ve bypassed the 23 this list is supposed to be, so imma stop here, I think... but wow. Wow. Fucking wow.

Wait nevermind, let’s do a few more picked and chosen from the rest.

My parents did this to me all the damn time, fuck. Doing chores to earn your allowance is one of the older fucking tricks in the book. 

My parents also did this because it was cheaper to blend their own baby food than to buy it for premium prices in a can.

What the fuck is wrong with a selfie that kids should be barred from it? It’s not something sexual, it’s taking a fun picture of yourself or yourself with a group of other people... which kids have always done. There are fucking Polaroid selfies from boomer’s childhoods, photo booth pictures... and what’s the difference between a parent taking pictures of the kid and the kid taking pictures of themselves that makes it so wrong to provoke this response. Because lots of boomers every generation after have hovered around their kids’ childhoods with a camera ready...

... okay, the baby shouldn’t have been left on the floor like this, let’s be fair... but for a kid that age, I’m relatively certain my mom dumped me in a crib or a playpen to go take a shit, not took me with her. 

And then they hid it in their backpack and put it on in the school bathroom anyways? What did that accomplish? Not much, I tell you.

That comic about parents getting mad at their kid’s teachers has got to be at least 20 years old now. That wasn’t us inventing that, I promise.

Guarantee you our parents put us through this trauma too, laughing the whole way.