Discussion Are millennials the worst generation of parents?

[Buried Alive 2.0]

I've seen that many young parents are very lenient towards their children and do not discipline them when needed. Trends like "gentle parenting", "respectful parenting" and "emotional coaching" are widespread. There are also loads of studies about raising kids, autism, dealing with toddlers and yet kids are terrible and growing up awfully. There are lots of "my kids can do no wrong" parents too.

 

[PhineasSpear]

Yeah. They basically raising these kids to never grow up and be dependent on them; Not to mention, leaving them massively unprepared for the real world.

 

[Qech__]

Dawg just wait for gen z parenting. Half these parents will be dysfunctional because COVID occurred during their formative years

 

[Buried Alive 2.0]

Dawg just wait for gen z parenting. Half these parents will be dysfunctional because COVID occurred during their formative years

Yeah, many gen Z women were little whores at 13 already. Imagine a child being raised in this environment and seen his mom tiktoks...

 

[BricABrac]

The only parenting that could matter is CRISPR ing incels like me out of existence.

 

[Ryo_Hazuki]

Well gen z are old enough to be having kids, and some do. I'm sure they're even worse. But yes, millennials are demonstrably worse parents than gen xers and even boomers.

There are lots of videos on the internet of teachers complaining that the kids just do whatever they want, don't listen and there's no consequence. If the teacher tries to enforce discipline, the school tells them to stop, or the kid's parents will come in and yell at the teacher. I know when I go to walmart there's always kids running around, yelling, messing with stuff, and the parents don't care. That's one of the reasons I usually try to do my shopping on school days during the day, less likely to be kids there.

But these parents just let their kids do whatever they want with impunity because they don't believe in discipline, and not only do they cause problems for society as kids, but they end up being awful as adults as well. Every month we get at least a couple of new hires that literally get fired their first day because they don't understand consequence.

Last month we had a 18 year old and it was his first day. I was tasked with training him and I could just tell he wasn't going to last. He had that 1000 yard stare, which is apparently so common among gen z it's called the "gen z stare". He also had that perpetual nonchalant demeanor. I actually got frustrated with him and said if he kept acting this way he'd get fired and he just said "yeah ok unc". Then he went outside for whatever reason for like 25 minutes and when he came back in the manager fired him. Then he refused to leave the store, cops were called to escort him out and he gave them a hard time too before finally leaving.

Some of these young zoomers that millennials raised are straight up unemployable. That guy that got fired and others like him will probably just live with their parents until they die. Very few people are in a position where they can be a "based sigma". In the workplace you must be submissive. You must take obey and take orders. You also have to have a sense of urgency with most jobs, especially fast food. There is no place in the workforce for a "nonchalant based ironybro sigma male" unless he's exceptionally talented.

The employees we keep are the obedient high-cortisol tryhards that try to work as fast as possible.

 

[RottingMentalIago]

Last month we had a 18 year old and it was his first day. I was tasked with training him and I could just tell he wasn't going to last. He had that 1000 yard stare, which is apparently so common among gen z it's called the "gen z stare". He also had that perpetual nonchalant demeanor. I actually got frustrated with him and said if he kept acting this way he'd get fired and he just said "yeah ok unc". Then he went outside for whatever reason for like 25 minutes and when he came back in the manager fired him. Then he refused to leave the store, cops were called to escort him out and he gave them a hard time too before finally leaving.

> Yeah ok unc
> Thousand yard stare


He had broccoli hair didn’t he?

 

[fastnbulbous]

I was raised by Gen Xers and i turned out to be a failure

 

[DCI Gene Hunt]

Yes, they give their kids retarded names and don't discipline them at all.

As much as I like to criticise boomers, one thing they got right was parenting. They didn't (usually) hit their kids like the Greatest Generation did, but they also didn't just let them get away with everything like millennials do. Boomers struck a happy medium. This is basically the only compliment I can give to boomers btw.

 

[Thaway]

No that trend definitely started with the boomers and gen Xers. The whole anti culture thing, going against anything that's reason and order is boomerism. The millenials are basically just the first victims of it.

 

[Buried Alive 2.0]

Well gen z are old enough to be having kids, and some do. I'm sure they're even worse. But yes, millennials are demonstrably worse parents than gen xers and even boomers.

There are lots of videos on the internet of teachers complaining that the kids just do whatever they want, don't listen and there's no consequence. If the teacher tries to enforce discipline, the school tells them to stop, or the kid's parents will come in and yell at the teacher. I know when I go to walmart there's always kids running around, yelling, messing with stuff, and the parents don't care. That's one of the reasons I usually try to do my shopping on school days during the day, less likely to be kids there.

But these parents just let their kids do whatever they want with impunity because they don't believe in discipline, and not only do they cause problems for society as kids, but they end up being awful as adults as well. Every month we get at least a couple of new hires that literally get fired their first day because they don't understand consequence.

Last month we had a 18 year old and it was his first day. I was tasked with training him and I could just tell he wasn't going to last. He had that 1000 yard stare, which is apparently so common among gen z it's called the "gen z stare". He also had that perpetual nonchalant demeanor. I actually got frustrated with him and said if he kept acting this way he'd get fired and he just said "yeah ok unc". Then he went outside for whatever reason for like 25 minutes and when he came back in the manager fired him. Then he refused to leave the store, cops were called to escort him out and he gave them a hard time too before finally leaving.

Some of these young zoomers that millennials raised are straight up unemployable. That guy that got fired and others like him will probably just live with their parents until they die. Very few people are in a position where they can be a "based sigma". In the workplace you must be submissive. You must take obey and take orders. You also have to have a sense of urgency with most jobs, especially fast food. There is no place in the workforce for a "nonchalant based ironybro sigma male" unless he's exceptionally talented.

The employees we keep are the obedient high-cortisol tryhards that try to work as fast as possible.

Exactly this. And what a shitshow of employee.

They grow up without consequence and discipline. Teachers can't do it, they'd get sued and fired, and parents can't or won't too. I know this is highly frowned upon today and even illegal in some places, but physical punishment has its place in raising kids and can help avoid raising absolute idiots.

 

[Skoga]

No its bluepilled boomers with their shit genetics giving birth to subhumans like me and giving bluepilled advice ruining your whole life.

 

[Ryo_Hazuki]

> Yeah ok unc
> Thousand yard stare


He had broccoli hair didn’t he?

Yeah but the majority of my male coworkers age 18-25 have some variation of the broccoli haircut.

 

[Buried Alive 2.0]

As much as I like to criticise boomers, one thing they got right was parenting. They didn't (usually) hit their kids like the Greatest Generation did, but they also didn't just let them get away with everything like millennials do. Boomers struck a happy medium. This is basically the only compliment I can give to boomers btw.

Yeah, they applied some discipline and consequences to bad behavior. Too bad they destroyed the world.

 

[RottingMentalIago]

Yeah but the majority of my male coworkers age 18-25 have some variation of the broccoli haircut.

Tbf though pretty much everyone gets fired at some stage. Even Europeans usually have a probation period where they can be fired without a reason before the stage where it’s impossible to fire them even if they chew out a customer kicks in. It’s why German employers are so notorious for firing their employees after three months while it’s still legal.


Do you know what broccoli was doing in his impromptu 25 minute break?

 

[WastedPotential]

Yes, there has been proof that gen z and below even lack basic computer literacy, regular literacy and even writing skills.
With AI they're going to be giga-crutched actual retards. Not to mention that this culture of hyper-progressivism will make a lot of them entitled incompetent emotionally immature crybabies.

I've had some luck that my parents were boomer/silent generation, but unfortunately I won't become a parent so it was all for nothing.

 

[Buried Alive 2.0]

Yes, there has been proof that gen z and below even lack basic computer literacy, regular literacy and even writing skills.
With AI they're going to be giga-crutched actual retards. Not to mention that this culture of hyper-progressivism will make a lot of them entitled incompetent emotionally immature crybabies.

This is another great point. Many also don't have the initiative to learn that comes with being an entitled incompetent emotionally immature crybaby.

 

[Ryo_Hazuki]

Do you know what broccoli was doing in his impromptu 25 minute break?

I don't know, but if I had to guess probably something on his phone. He got warned by the manager for doing something on his phone, and he pulled out his phone while I was trying to train him and I told him to put it away and he gave me that gen z stare, then nonchalantly continued whatever he was doing for another minute before putting it away.

I didn't even see him go outside. I was supposed to train him while doing my regular job, and we got busy and I just turned around and he was gone. This was shortly after he said "yeah ok unc". Checked the bathroom, he wasn't there. Then he came back in like nothing happened and got fired.

In hindsight, it's possible he was on something that day. Or maybe it was SSRIs or antipsychotics. Or maybe he really was just what he appeared to be, a spoiled braindead zoomer. Maybe it's all of the above. I just dont understand how he managed to make it through 2 interviews and get the job to begin with considering how slow, nonchalant and unresponsive he was.

We don't hire the vast majority of the people who apply, and the majority of the people who get interviewed also don't get the job. If he was even remotely like this during either of the interviews there's no way he would have gotten hired. This is a job where you have to be fast, hyper-alert, and have a sense of urgency. There's no room for a nonchalant, lackadaisical, low cortisol, scatterbrain in fast food. Frankly I don't think there's any job in the economy for a guy like this. The only job I'd want to hire a guy like this for is human crash test dummy.