“Kids don’t play like they used to!”

My favourite is when they complain that children today have toys that they didn't have. "In my day, we'd play outside with a stick and an empty snail shell!" Well, duh, that's because that's what you had. Did you all rush out and buy hoola hoops the instant they became a thing? Yes. Yes, you did. But you want the next generations to have no new inventions.

I think you're right about them not liking kids too. The leftover boomers (ie, millennials who are clinging to their parents' boomer ideologies) are hopefully the last people to think like that. I do see them trying to change things by being more balanced than their parents, but the way they're going about it is so bizarre - their parents would beat them and that would be that, so they'll beat their children and also show them affection. Like, what. It just has the same "children should be seen and not heard" energy (which some of them literally still say to their kids, or things like, "Get out of here, children don't interact with adults").

I'm so with you on this rant. You messed us up, psychologically, environmentally and economically, boomers, and then blamed us and washed your hands. What a disgrace.

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