My parents are trying to guilt trip me into being a second mom to my sister. Not sure if I'm just being insensitive.

Except OP isn't a millennial, millennials reached adulthood on or around the turn of the millennium. OP was two.

Your entire argument that OP and millennials are inherently selfish is based on a fallacy.

I agree that if OP is living at home, rent free, and/or OPs parents are paying for their education, a few days of babysitting isn't a huge deal, and helping her parents out is probably the least they could do. But OP also has a full plate, and has every right to say no to focus on schooling.

The argument of our generation never helping our families unless there is a monetary gain sounds like a confirmation bias. My siblings and I have dropped everything to help one another and our parents when they needed us to. And I know just as many people in the same age range who have done the same.

Sure, there are shitty people, or there are those who had bad home lives and are not inclined to help the abusers, but that's in every generation. Millennials don't have a Monopoly on greed and sloth.

Pegging it on a single generation alone is silly.

/r/childfree Thread Parent