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Yeah, we fucked this one up. No shade but older US millennials (I am one) are the worst parents. TERRIBLE. Idk why but we are. It’s like none of us born in the 80s learned from the everyone before us how not to be:/ But we were the TV generation & it’s interesting to see how our version of social media has impacted our parenting.

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The worst parents how?

How is difficult to know but the GenZ numbers is also about their parents

Their parents are mostly not millennials though...

Millenials spend time with their kids, way more than previous generations. Especially fathers.

I don't know if you've met people, but most people are terrible! And now these poor role models are spending extra time with young impressionable minds! /s

Impossible to argue with this!

One example is optimizing for the short-term satisfaction of the child. More bluntly: not saying no. Not being critical.

I tend to find all sorts of generalizations like this so useless. Like, this thing you said seems totally random to me. I know lots of "elder millennial" parents and lots of parents of other ages, and I see lots of variation between parents in "not saying no", but I don't see any correlation by age... Regional and political cultural differences are way more correlated with things like this IMO.

The very concept of generations is a generalization.

Yes, but of a different kind than this "people of this generation do xyz thing".

There is an angle to it that is not that obvious. The kids have been part of social media and they consult each other and then they go couch surfing upon a disagreement. So saying no is like saying no to a group of people with the same agenda and viewpoint and they would retaliate. Like Lord Of the Flies.

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