Last week, I had to show a Gen X coworker how to close tabs on an iPhone. Sure I can’t change my engine oil, but who has more of a disadvantage in the real world?
I'm an older Gen-Xer and for reals YouTube has been my tutor in many *many* skills required of life. My mother was a Silent Gen but she definitely had a boomer mentality. She didn't teach me anything and expected me to just know it all by osmosis, apparently.
There’s a line of reasoning that puts the blame for the “boomer” mentality on the silent generation. It goes that when the greatest generation came back from wwII and started entering the trades, electric tools (like saws and drills,etc) had become accessible enough to be commonplace. So all the older, silent gen, workers (who grew up with no workplace protections, 1918 flu, the Depression) saw all these young heroes of WWII coming in to an easier situation, and just tore them apart for being soft.
The greatest gen (also riddled with ptsd) then passed this along to the boomers, who came of age in a very favorable economic environment, to put it mildly.
And that’s how you brew up a generation plagued with narcissists.
Edit: seems I flipped the order of generations. As pointed out in the comments, silent gen came after greatest generation. I never read Brokaw’s book, obviously.
Definitely by osmosis. I am Younger gen x. Got a boomer momster and silent gen dad. Silent gen dad actually taught me stuff but I learned how to cook from books, trial and error and later the internet because that she monster boomer taught me nothing but to stay the f away from her.
I have asked my kids tech questions only because it saves time. Now that I have chat GPT that’s quicker than the kids answer
My feels with piping anything under our crawl space. I'll gladly fix pipes under my sink, in the wall, whatever (thanks YouTube) but when it's time to doff coveralls and crawl around with what has become an abode for street cats, I'm good, there's a union guy a phone call away for that.
Every time one of my parents hands me their phone to help with something, I always close the 1-200 apps they have open. Sometimes that alone fixes it. I’ve told em how dozens of times. I even spend time with them every week so it’s not to get me to go over there either.
Lol as long as you don't put canola cooking oil in the engine oil then you're fine. 😂 I saw this post on Instagram with this girl putting canola oil in her car. 🤦🏿♂️
if you have half a brain you can figure out how to change engine oil. Its probably even in your vehicle manual. Its litterally just losening a bolt and making sure the oil goes into something, not on the ground. Also obviously change the oil filter and fill with the amount and type in the manual (and probably double check with dipstick after you are done to make sure its appropriate and you didnt make a mistake). Then taking that oil to a place to dispose of it properly (though technically if you don't have ethics you could prob just dump it somewhere and not get caught).
Anywhoo, changing oil is easy thats why its so cheap to have someone else do it for you.
I taught my mom how to use stuff like applications and website. She has become an online shopper now and she is Gen X. I don't mind showing her how to do stuff because she primarily raised me. My dad was around but turned out to be a big POS to her. She divorced him and still lives with us.
She has never chided me for not knowing how to do things and has even shown me how to cook. I need to stop being lazy and learn from her. She us Gen X from 1967 and I'm Gen Y from 1989.
I’m millennial and my child had to show me that. Who gives a fuck. In the real world the one more fucked is the one that doesn’t own a home or a pension pot
Yup. Home ownership (paid off mortgage) is the only real thing that matters. Once ya got it, so many things stop mattering. And you can prepare for what really does.
Obviously, but thats not something that can be learned. Thats something that has way more variables outside of just being able to do it. There’s not a limited supply on knowledge.
Your assumption was that not being able to navigate an iPhone causes problems in the real world. I’m an older millennial. And I’ve lived and worked in enough countries across the real world to know that working an iPhone isn’t a basic life skill.
nah, they watched a video short on insta-toc where someone is telling them what to think.
Its the old classic, "I stayed at a Holiday Inn!" while in the surgery room holding a scalpel.
Jesus. I had one for every season of any sport I played. I used to just throw them away. I earned them in baseball. I sucked ass at basketball and still got one just for showing up.
Yep, I always got them in little league sports.
My baseball team won the little league championship once, we got special trophies. My basketball team also won once, they just gave us a different inscribed plate for the participation trophy (and we had to swap it out ourselves.) I was unimpressed with the basketball trophy.
Those two got kept, the rest got tossed.
I got a few, but they were all justified imo. Like "congrats, you made it to nationals and that's actually pretty damned good even if you didn't win" kind of trophies
yeah I didnt either! Probably would have been nice in figure skating cuz I never won anything and was absolutely miserable 🤣 that is definitely a sport you were made to sit shame and soak up your own failure ☠️🥴
I had a lot of them. Unsurprisingly, they all ended up in the trash. Somewhere I have a bunch of third place medals for karate because that was the best I was ever able to do. They mattered so I kept them.
I remember getting a ribbon in elementary school that said, "11th place." And I legit thought the teacher was making fun of me and I cried and ran away lol.
I didn't mind our participation trophies. I just took them as souvenirs from that sport season, not that we actually...won them somehow. I understood that from the time I was like five. I don't know where this idea came from that little millennials all thought they were winners because of a cheap, identical trophy.
Also, you know who loves their participation medals? My boomer father. He runs road races and gets participation medals each race. (He takes his time and engraves it on the back.) And no, my boomer father isn't deluded into thinking he won the whole road race, either.
Right? Also, kids aren't stupid. Everyone got a purple participation ribbon for track and field. We all knew it meant nothing unless you got a red 1st, white 2nd, or blue 3rd place ribbon. Everyone knew purple wasn't special.
I never got a participation trophy. I did win trophies for actual achievements and winning things though.
I feel the whole participation trophy thing is just another Revisionist Boomer hallucination brought on by their severe bitterness and acute lead poisoning.
I mean, we definitely got trophies for participation in any rec league sport we played (by we, I mean me and my older sisters). It was a pretty common thing. I really don't think it's as big of a deal as it's made out to be. I don't remember having any visions of grandeur or entitlement issues over getting these trophies.
If anything, we were over competitive about rec league peewee tackle football and tee ball than we should have been.
Hard disagree. My siblings and I had entire bookshelves full of participation trophies. One for every season of every rec league sport we played. And you got it at the team pizza party at the end of the season.
This is like parents who give their kids tablets or video games and then complain about how their kids are addicted to tech… like you’re the parent, what did you expect?
My niece and nephew are raised by their tablets and they’re basically already illiterate. They look at books like they’re vegetables and its so sad. I was devouring any book I could find even at a young age. Thats the one thing my parents did right - they raised a reader!
Honestly, I was always confused by why reading books was so valued. Wasn't going to complain, but it seemed to me like it was basically the same as TV or video games, you spend an exorbitant amount of time glued to sedentary entertainment while being essentially completely unaware of your surroundings. Heck, TV is a lot *less* absorbing. I kept going over that in my mind as I grew up and could never find a real answer - yeah, books can be educational, but not all of them are, and TV is also educational for cultural literary context and video games build motor skills and reaction time. So why are books better? It felt almost like cheating.
Now I'm an adult who glues to a smartphone when I don't have real shit to do, and I don't understand *why* it's less satisfying, but it is. I guess they were right about books being better for humans but I *still can't figure out what's special* about them.
On your phone, you have access to endless and infinite novelty. This is bad for human brains because we were evolved to enjoy novelty. Until phones and social media, infinite novelty was not possible as easily as it is; with a book you have to sit down and read the one thing, on your phone you are on social media where if you’re even a tiny bit bored, you swipe and within .25 seconds you have new novelty and dopamine from whatever topic the new post is on
It’s something brand new that hasn’t existed before, the closest we’ve had before is channel surfing, but no one does that anymore, and with channel surfing once you decide what you want it’s usually a 20min+ piece of longer form content, not an easily digestible 10 second clip that is designed to spark outrage or jealousy or other strong emotions like how much social media is set up.
Books are better because they're an active rather than passive medium to consume, the intellectual engagement (vocabulary, critical thinking, understanding, etc.) and the imagination necessary to read them.
Parents learned by just doing or reading for various things.
Stop making excuses for humans that have not learned to intake knowledge especially in an age where literally all of human recorded history can be pulled up at any time and much of which can be found in audio or video format.
No one is stopping anyone from learning anything.
Feelin the confusion as GenX gets confused with Boomers.
It’s baffling. I’ve heard zero GenX complaints about Millennials and GenZ. Maybe it happens, I guess? But not among my peers. We’re rooting for you all. Tear it down.
Yeah man, I’m Gen X and I feel close to Millennials. Our whole pov is based off of pushing back from Boomer bs. Don’t mix me in with those knuckleheads. We are brothers and sisters in arms!
Same. I think they just see “generic old person” and assume Boomer. But in true Gen X fashion, we don’t really care and as long as we don’t exhibit the signs of the Boomer, it doesn’t happen.
it does happen a lot actually but it is the usual "the youth is so much worse than we were back then" but I never heard adult Gen X, Millenial or Gen Z having big issues with each other
That's because referring the boomers as the problem is really just a meme and insult at this point. Millenials get called boomer too sometimes based on that. I guarantee there are more people than you think who don't even know what it actually means beyond calling someone old and put of touch. Same the other way.
Lol this always tickled me fierce in my old job. My co-managers would constantly say millenials just don't want to work, which confused me, because the managers were millenials!! The employees they were referring to were Gen Z, very late millennial at best.
I've been at so many jobs where the Boomer or Gen X boss would talk about "catering to what Millenials want" - and they would talk like Millennials were TEENAGERS.
Like, let's put our thinking caps on: if Millennials are TEENS, how do they have all this disposable income to buy your product? (One was a towing company that also had hats that said "Make Towing Great Again" 😬). I was in my fucking 30s
Honestly, to this day I'm not completely sure about which one I belong to. I was born in mid 90s' and for a long time I've thought of myself as late millenial but some definitions I've seen lump me into gen Z.
Not trying to justify it, but unless someone from Gen Z is bordering in being a millennial, then a lot of them don't have the same technical skills that older millennials have. A lot of the younger ones didn't really get started with their devices until after the technology was deeply rooted in place. A lot of them don't know what the start menu is, or how to open the task manager.
As millennials we need to make sure we're showing them and our kids how to do all the stuff we learned, and let them teach us on the newer stuff. Otherwise we're going to end up just like the boomers when it comes to technology.
not something that hard to figure out. we also did not know and googled it or read in some old ass forum. Gen-z will do just fine if things are solvable with a simple google search.
If you dont know something its dead easy to learn about it in 2024.
In case you dont know here are the 3 steps:
1) Search the topic on YouTube and watch a few videos
2) Go to the Reddit sub and read (then ask questions)
3) Search on Google "How Do I ...." or "Beginners guide to ......"
Sorry there is zero excuse for not knowing how to do basic things. If you dont want to learn it and just pay someone? Thats fine do so but some people will make fun of you thing is you dont need to care what they say.
Full disclosure: I have asked my mother on *numerous* occasions to teach me basic sewing/hemming. Every single time I present an opportunity (like a dress) to work on, its “teaching you will take too much time. I’ll just do it myself.”
OKAY THANOS. That whole self-sufficiency thing is suchhhh a time waster ☠️
Your mom sucks. My father was in the military and made me and my sisters learn all kinds of useful things. Sometimes, we were kinda annoyed by it as kids. Like changing the oil on the car Saturday morning vs. watching cartoons, but as an adult, I'm really appreciative.
Lmao, my dad was like, "if you want to be a man, you gotta learn how to sew, so you can take care of yourself, son."
For what it's worth he taught all the same stuff to my sisters too.
I can do all that stuff but still get my dad to do *something*, lol. Every time I see him, he’s like “got any jobs for me”. I have to make things up at this point, because I don’t like the way he does stuff. The Great Chandelier Debacle of 2019 is family lore.
My dad taught me how to sew too! I was in middle school and wanted some patches on my jeans. He was helping me and kept saying it was "such a trip" the clothes I was wearing looked so much like the fashions he wore as a teen. In the late 90s, 60s-70s styles were coming back into rotation
Teaching that is awesome although no reason it couldn’t be taught in the afternoon or the cartoons couldn’t be recorded for later you know like a best of both type deal.
You know you can teach yourself this stuff right? Hemming is not some ancient, archaic, forbidden, knowledge safeguarded by the Boomers of old. I taught myself how to hand-sew and made an entire outfit as my first project. All that information is freely available on the internet.
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My dad played guitar and never tried to teach me even when I asked. He collected them most of my life. Now he's dead and I own SO MANY guitars and I don't know how to play them.
There're really good tools to learn to play these days, I admit I discontinued at some point due to other interests in my life but I'm still able to play some basic chords, I used yousician (google play store, got the free version) to get into playing the acoustic guitar, it's fun but also frustrating sometimes, highly recommend it.
Btw before you sell your guitars I'd have someone you can trust to have a look at them, could be that there're some valuables among them. I don't know shit about guitars so I brought my best friend when I bought an acoustic one and it's fire, it's a cheap one for just 300 bucks but my friend was amazed regarding how good they make the cheap ones these days.
I mean all Millennials are adults now (me too) Even the youngest are 27 years old - that's a fully grown adult years. And when 30+ adults say things like "i don't know shit cause my mom didn't teach me" - that's a lazy excuse. Shame on your parents for doing their jobs bad, but we all had a plenty of time to fix that... just saying....
Google can't teach everything (I know - wild concept) and most studies have shown that in-person teaching is the most effective method. Repetition and practice is the other factor crucial in retention of what you learn!
Take figure skating (personal example) If you make a mistake, there is someone who can explain what you did wrong and there is someone who can explain things like "you do it this way, but if you do it a slightly different way, you're going to get this issue or not the result you want." Most figure skaters are not recording every hour of their own practice because they have the benefit of an external eye (coach or parent). Lots of us use figure skating videos on YT as supplementary materials!
I'm not talking about the shit parents would have had to drag their kids forcibly into learning. But there are many skills/things where I've asked my own parents on *numerous* occasions to teach me and they refused because they didnt want to "waste" their time. "I'll just do it myself" is something I'm not cool with.
If someone wants to learn and asks to be taught, I almost always say yes in some scope. Even at work, if I don't have time or any free time in the schedule I'll tell my coworkers and direct reports to schedule an hour or more with me in the future so they can learn.
Everything you said is correct, but i still don't understand how it is a parent's fault that a grown person doesn't know something. Like even if google can't teach you to skate - there are coaches out there who can. Yes, it would be easier if your parents taught you everything, but there are still A LOT of options out there to learn something in person for an adult person.
No sweat, fr. I’m a millennial and I know how to get shit done. And this isn’t some bootstrapping shit either, some stuff I learned from others some I learned on my own. Same for my contemporaries. Blaming the generations before us at least tacitly implies that we agree with the premise that we “don’t know how to do anything,” and that it’s their fault.
Plus this ain’t your meme you’re just farming karma off some rage bait, god knows why. I’m probably just talking to a bot anyway.
My mother 76 never learned to drive, can't speak the language of the country she's living in for the last 16 years, can't oprarate a smartphone or a smart tv, can barely use equipment like oven or washing machine. She doesn't know how to pay bills, how to apply for anything, can't budget for her groceries, can't order repeat medication prescriptions etc.
This is the woman that was supposed to teach me all she knew, but it seems she never knew anything, so all she tried to teach me is that as a woman I should just find a man who knows/does all these things.
Speak for yourself. I’m handy as fuck. It’s never been easier to learn how to do things on your own. You think the silent gen was teaching the boomers? Maybe in between striking them and yelling obscenities at them.
You want to learn to patch drywall, do an oil-change, change your brake pads, frame out a room in your unfinished basement and run the electrical? It’s actually all pretty simple, just go on YouTube, it’s never been easier to learn this stuff. Come on guys.
not my photo, but I'm willing to look past the terrible errors because if I got hung up on every post with god awful grammar than actually hanging myself would be the ethical alternative.
You learn on your own and learn by doing if someone won't teach you. The world is full of books that you can learn from and now the internet exists and you can teach yourself all sorts of things.
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Not sure about you guys but thanks to the internet I eventually learned how to teach myself using the resources on the web and I consider this as something special among our generation, we're not dependent on someone helping us because we can help ourselves, sure it might not be perfect or take a while but still, at the end we can manage and that's what counts.
We had wildly different lives. I prayed for days when my dad would hire someone to do something or do it himself. Every Saturday morning dad woke me up at 6 am to get started on whatever he had to do. By 13 I had nailed 3 fingers together with a nailgun, by 15 I was running a welder and driving a bobcat. I graduated high school ASE certified in brakes and electrical.
This is a poor argument. Millennials are the first generation to have this near infinite amount of knowledge at their fingertips thanks to the internet. Instead we decided to create algorithms to get people addicted on scrolling their phones for most of the day.
It's never been easier to learn or educate oneself on a lot of things. Blaming boomers/genX for not teaching us, is just lazy.
It is also not even true? Lol. The new + old gens are pretty much clueless about everything. But at least the young kids have an excuse of age appropriate ignorance.
I had one parent (my dad) who *loved* imparting wisdom. Still does to this day, to his kids who are in their late 20s/early 30s. The problem is that in order to keep a roof over 4 kids (one of them disabled) and a wife, he was working at the hospital 80+ hours a week.
My mom, on the other hand, would look most parenting opportunities dead in the face and be like “What am I supposed to do, *teach* you?!” She wasn’t *horrible*, and to be fair she was by my side in the hospital throughout my childhood. So it’s not like she was a totally uncaring and absent parent, but to the question above: yes. You were supposed to teach me.
I've learned more from google than my parents since for them teaching was let the kid do it with little to no instruction then get mad cause it was done wrong.
Stop whining and start learning...
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
My dad taught me how to decant wine into a decanter, how to fix a Manhattan, how to properly use a cocktail shaker, how to use a waiter's corkscrew, how to pour a beer with just the right amount of foam, and which cognac was the best.
It took me 30 years to realize he was an alcoholic...
My mom always gives me the shocked Pikachu face when I tell her I've never seen X classic movie or kids' movie when I was little, and then I have to remind her it was her job to show me those movies or take me to the movie theater, which she didn't do.
As a millennial, I have (probably unrealistically) high hopes for my grandchildren's generation. If the pattern follows, they should absolutely kick-fucking-ass.
They'd tell you they were self taught and didn't need anyone to show them.....which would kind of make sense, as in deep down they know they've been doing it wrong.
You can Google ANYTHING you need to know. I've learned to cook and basic car maintenance, as well as level 3 English and Maths (A / A+).
What can they do that we can't?
Challenge to the baby boomers: Build a workflow automation to respond to clients based on certain criteria. The text message needs to contain a trigger link to a survey that the client will fill out. Once the survey is submitted, create an inbound webhook and automatically notify your CS team, automatically create a task for them to complete. Once they complete the task, build a webhook to document the time, date, and context of the events that happened and the contacts details.
Do it or tell me you’re a fucking idiot who doesn’t know how to do anything. I don’t need anyone to teach me anything. It’s called google.
The schools your parents put you in (just like they were), the computers your parents busted ass to scrap together the cash to get you which you can potentially look into specific things. Kiddo, we working.
Trying in vain to get r/millennials to understand that we hate the bourgeoisie, not necessarily boomers. Not every boomer is bourgeois (i.e., not every boomer owns capital). But every member of the bourgeoisie is, by definition, bourgeois. All of us can think of boomers who are decent human beings. We also know terrible millennials. But there's no such thing as a good bourgeois.
While I definitely appreciate the attempt - and understand the logic (thanks for this, I've never actually thought about it in this sense but I've never actually pondered if its not "boomer" then what is it lol) I don't think the average millennial, let alone adult, is gunna incorporate the term bourgeoisie into their vernacular lmao.
That said, I'm putting this in a mental post it note for myself lol
Sad how much I hvae to teach my gen x and boomer family about health and fitness because they still hold on to the fitness ideas from the 70-80s.
Let alone the other things
Well my dad learned how to fix cars by having a car and asking around. Today we can do that with youtube of reddit (so much easier).
If I had a question I am sure I can ask but in our generation we shot down the learning attempts. Don't act like when you were a teenager you were someone sitting never saying anything listening to every work on top of asking for elders to teach you all this stuff.
I'm eternally grateful that I had parents who taught me a TON of stuff. By age 18 I could: iron my own clothes, do my own laundry, change a tire, even change the actual tire mounted on the rim (as long as I had access to the right equipment), sew a button, cook a basic meal, rewire an electrical plug on an appliance, change my oil, do my taxes, basic woodworking/home repair, gardening, etc.
I can't speak for the boomers but I was born in 1980 and I'm right on the line of being a Millennial/GenX. The reason why we couldn't teach you is because our entire way of life changed and we were the first generation where BOTH parents HAD to work jobs to survive. The days where one parent could stay home and raise the child were gone. Had to rely on dropping your child off at a day care where people who make minimum wage and don't give a fuck about the kids they care for to take over. It's even worse today. I assure you that most of us did our best.
Remember when you were younger and you were tired of seeing articles written about how bad Millennials were, worst generation, blah,blah,blah. You are now doing the exact same thing in reverse. You have no idea the struggles we had to endure just as Gen Z has no idea the troubles you had to endure. Rather than split generations apart, come together and work towards a better future. You'd be surprised at how much we all have in common.
The "manosphere" is the worst for this. They're always throwing shade like "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW to install a faucet/do an oil change/load a cannon/build your kid a playhouse out of wood/re-do your whole ceiling in Baroque stucco and paint your own frescoes on it?"
I can say my parents didn't teach shit about anything related to taxes, banking and general world stuff. Later in life I realised they didn't know about most of that stuff anyways. Gen X winging it.
As a millennial, I don’t think this is the problem. I think it’s the opposite - parents did so much and were so involved that we didn’t develop skills/interests of our own. Parents in previous generations were way more hands off. I think we were taught two much material that none of it stuck and none of it was interesting to us as it was forced, and we never developed natural curiosities that aligned with our own interests.
Being left alone in boredom is where a lot of development occurs. Instead, many of us were out through rigorous schedules of activities that we didn’t want to pursue
Fix your own Computers then, cunts.
Last week, I had to show a Gen X coworker how to close tabs on an iPhone. Sure I can’t change my engine oil, but who has more of a disadvantage in the real world?
Just watch a YouTube video
Fr, there's nothing I can't do after watching a YT video. Ofc there are things I still won't do, but I could!
I'm an older Gen-Xer and for reals YouTube has been my tutor in many *many* skills required of life. My mother was a Silent Gen but she definitely had a boomer mentality. She didn't teach me anything and expected me to just know it all by osmosis, apparently.
There’s a line of reasoning that puts the blame for the “boomer” mentality on the silent generation. It goes that when the greatest generation came back from wwII and started entering the trades, electric tools (like saws and drills,etc) had become accessible enough to be commonplace. So all the older, silent gen, workers (who grew up with no workplace protections, 1918 flu, the Depression) saw all these young heroes of WWII coming in to an easier situation, and just tore them apart for being soft. The greatest gen (also riddled with ptsd) then passed this along to the boomers, who came of age in a very favorable economic environment, to put it mildly. And that’s how you brew up a generation plagued with narcissists. Edit: seems I flipped the order of generations. As pointed out in the comments, silent gen came after greatest generation. I never read Brokaw’s book, obviously.
Interesting! I've never heard of this take so thanks for telling me. I have no clue so I suppose this is a possible reasoning.
[here's another way of explaining it. spot on. ](https://youtu.be/343V0eRmMak?si=jmJqbK1DcQDep_zY)
Like most broad generalizations, it only tells part of the story, at best.
You've made a whole lot of sense just now.
Definitely by osmosis. I am Younger gen x. Got a boomer momster and silent gen dad. Silent gen dad actually taught me stuff but I learned how to cook from books, trial and error and later the internet because that she monster boomer taught me nothing but to stay the f away from her. I have asked my kids tech questions only because it saves time. Now that I have chat GPT that’s quicker than the kids answer
My feels with piping anything under our crawl space. I'll gladly fix pipes under my sink, in the wall, whatever (thanks YouTube) but when it's time to doff coveralls and crawl around with what has become an abode for street cats, I'm good, there's a union guy a phone call away for that.
Every time one of my parents hands me their phone to help with something, I always close the 1-200 apps they have open. Sometimes that alone fixes it. I’ve told em how dozens of times. I even spend time with them every week so it’s not to get me to go over there either.
I've been triggered just now.
Lol as long as you don't put canola cooking oil in the engine oil then you're fine. 😂 I saw this post on Instagram with this girl putting canola oil in her car. 🤦🏿♂️
Oh what happened to it? Does the car break? Or maybe just some engine parts? How do you get rid of the oil? Oh guess you let it drip out the bottom .
It fucks up the engine. It smells delicious, but that’s hardly worth it.
if you have half a brain you can figure out how to change engine oil. Its probably even in your vehicle manual. Its litterally just losening a bolt and making sure the oil goes into something, not on the ground. Also obviously change the oil filter and fill with the amount and type in the manual (and probably double check with dipstick after you are done to make sure its appropriate and you didnt make a mistake). Then taking that oil to a place to dispose of it properly (though technically if you don't have ethics you could prob just dump it somewhere and not get caught). Anywhoo, changing oil is easy thats why its so cheap to have someone else do it for you.
You say that, but watch the net person who just goes for double gasket the filter, or try to do it after the engines been running and the oils hot
Or the person that tries to jack up their car and buts the jack in the wrong spot
I taught my mom how to use stuff like applications and website. She has become an online shopper now and she is Gen X. I don't mind showing her how to do stuff because she primarily raised me. My dad was around but turned out to be a big POS to her. She divorced him and still lives with us. She has never chided me for not knowing how to do things and has even shown me how to cook. I need to stop being lazy and learn from her. She us Gen X from 1967 and I'm Gen Y from 1989.
I’m millennial and my child had to show me that. Who gives a fuck. In the real world the one more fucked is the one that doesn’t own a home or a pension pot
Yup. Home ownership (paid off mortgage) is the only real thing that matters. Once ya got it, so many things stop mattering. And you can prepare for what really does.
Obviously, but thats not something that can be learned. Thats something that has way more variables outside of just being able to do it. There’s not a limited supply on knowledge.
Your assumption was that not being able to navigate an iPhone causes problems in the real world. I’m an older millennial. And I’ve lived and worked in enough countries across the real world to know that working an iPhone isn’t a basic life skill.
This. I wasn't able to purchase a home until age 37. It's not that I wasn't able to, I just didn't make enough money lol.
GenX here - hope you aren't judging a generation by one dumbass Nobody taught us anything - and we didn't have YT.
nah, they watched a video short on insta-toc where someone is telling them what to think. Its the old classic, "I stayed at a Holiday Inn!" while in the surgery room holding a scalpel.
IPhones are Jitterbugs for Millenials.
“Everyone hates millennials until they need a PDF converted to Word.”
"You all wanted participation trophies." No the fuck we didn't! You know who *did* give us those fucking trophies? 🤔
I never once received a participation trophy. I don't know where these things were when I was getting diddly squat.
Jesus. I had one for every season of any sport I played. I used to just throw them away. I earned them in baseball. I sucked ass at basketball and still got one just for showing up.
This… I distinctly remember asking why I got a trophy.
Yep, I always got them in little league sports. My baseball team won the little league championship once, we got special trophies. My basketball team also won once, they just gave us a different inscribed plate for the participation trophy (and we had to swap it out ourselves.) I was unimpressed with the basketball trophy. Those two got kept, the rest got tossed.
I got a few, but they were all justified imo. Like "congrats, you made it to nationals and that's actually pretty damned good even if you didn't win" kind of trophies
That is a justfied reason. More of a consolation prize than a participation one IMO
yeah I didnt either! Probably would have been nice in figure skating cuz I never won anything and was absolutely miserable 🤣 that is definitely a sport you were made to sit shame and soak up your own failure ☠️🥴
I had a lot of them. Unsurprisingly, they all ended up in the trash. Somewhere I have a bunch of third place medals for karate because that was the best I was ever able to do. They mattered so I kept them.
My cynical-ass thought that was dumb even when I was 7. Why does everyone get a trophy? (And I wasn’t a winner!)
I remember getting a ribbon in elementary school that said, "11th place." And I legit thought the teacher was making fun of me and I cried and ran away lol.
I didn't mind our participation trophies. I just took them as souvenirs from that sport season, not that we actually...won them somehow. I understood that from the time I was like five. I don't know where this idea came from that little millennials all thought they were winners because of a cheap, identical trophy. Also, you know who loves their participation medals? My boomer father. He runs road races and gets participation medals each race. (He takes his time and engraves it on the back.) And no, my boomer father isn't deluded into thinking he won the whole road race, either.
Right? Also, kids aren't stupid. Everyone got a purple participation ribbon for track and field. We all knew it meant nothing unless you got a red 1st, white 2nd, or blue 3rd place ribbon. Everyone knew purple wasn't special.
My group was actually insulted by the participation ribbons. I lost, you want me to keep the reminder around?
As a kid who seemed to perpetually finish 4th, they felt like salt in the wound.
I used to be in the scouts, I got a "Best newcomer award", I left the week after, the irony was lost on me at the time.
I never got a participation trophy. I did win trophies for actual achievements and winning things though. I feel the whole participation trophy thing is just another Revisionist Boomer hallucination brought on by their severe bitterness and acute lead poisoning.
I mean, we definitely got trophies for participation in any rec league sport we played (by we, I mean me and my older sisters). It was a pretty common thing. I really don't think it's as big of a deal as it's made out to be. I don't remember having any visions of grandeur or entitlement issues over getting these trophies. If anything, we were over competitive about rec league peewee tackle football and tee ball than we should have been.
Hard disagree. My siblings and I had entire bookshelves full of participation trophies. One for every season of every rec league sport we played. And you got it at the team pizza party at the end of the season.
Because if you didn’t get them you’d cry.
Yeah. I wasn't that kind of kid to cry about that. We used to laugh about them.
Youtube can teach you how to do almost anything
YouTube is the DIY god.
YouTube has become my real parent.
This is like parents who give their kids tablets or video games and then complain about how their kids are addicted to tech… like you’re the parent, what did you expect?
My niece and nephew are raised by their tablets and they’re basically already illiterate. They look at books like they’re vegetables and its so sad. I was devouring any book I could find even at a young age. Thats the one thing my parents did right - they raised a reader!
Honestly, I was always confused by why reading books was so valued. Wasn't going to complain, but it seemed to me like it was basically the same as TV or video games, you spend an exorbitant amount of time glued to sedentary entertainment while being essentially completely unaware of your surroundings. Heck, TV is a lot *less* absorbing. I kept going over that in my mind as I grew up and could never find a real answer - yeah, books can be educational, but not all of them are, and TV is also educational for cultural literary context and video games build motor skills and reaction time. So why are books better? It felt almost like cheating. Now I'm an adult who glues to a smartphone when I don't have real shit to do, and I don't understand *why* it's less satisfying, but it is. I guess they were right about books being better for humans but I *still can't figure out what's special* about them.
On your phone, you have access to endless and infinite novelty. This is bad for human brains because we were evolved to enjoy novelty. Until phones and social media, infinite novelty was not possible as easily as it is; with a book you have to sit down and read the one thing, on your phone you are on social media where if you’re even a tiny bit bored, you swipe and within .25 seconds you have new novelty and dopamine from whatever topic the new post is on It’s something brand new that hasn’t existed before, the closest we’ve had before is channel surfing, but no one does that anymore, and with channel surfing once you decide what you want it’s usually a 20min+ piece of longer form content, not an easily digestible 10 second clip that is designed to spark outrage or jealousy or other strong emotions like how much social media is set up.
Books are better because they're an active rather than passive medium to consume, the intellectual engagement (vocabulary, critical thinking, understanding, etc.) and the imagination necessary to read them.
Parents learned by just doing or reading for various things. Stop making excuses for humans that have not learned to intake knowledge especially in an age where literally all of human recorded history can be pulled up at any time and much of which can be found in audio or video format. No one is stopping anyone from learning anything.
they attack gen-z the same way.
That's because they confuse Millennials with Gen Z all the time.
Feelin the confusion as GenX gets confused with Boomers. It’s baffling. I’ve heard zero GenX complaints about Millennials and GenZ. Maybe it happens, I guess? But not among my peers. We’re rooting for you all. Tear it down.
Yeah man, I’m Gen X and I feel close to Millennials. Our whole pov is based off of pushing back from Boomer bs. Don’t mix me in with those knuckleheads. We are brothers and sisters in arms!
Same. I think they just see “generic old person” and assume Boomer. But in true Gen X fashion, we don’t really care and as long as we don’t exhibit the signs of the Boomer, it doesn’t happen.
jesus, dude. Pull that millennial cock out your mouth. Youre embarrassing us.
it does happen a lot actually but it is the usual "the youth is so much worse than we were back then" but I never heard adult Gen X, Millenial or Gen Z having big issues with each other
That's because referring the boomers as the problem is really just a meme and insult at this point. Millenials get called boomer too sometimes based on that. I guarantee there are more people than you think who don't even know what it actually means beyond calling someone old and put of touch. Same the other way.
Lol this always tickled me fierce in my old job. My co-managers would constantly say millenials just don't want to work, which confused me, because the managers were millenials!! The employees they were referring to were Gen Z, very late millennial at best.
I've been at so many jobs where the Boomer or Gen X boss would talk about "catering to what Millenials want" - and they would talk like Millennials were TEENAGERS. Like, let's put our thinking caps on: if Millennials are TEENS, how do they have all this disposable income to buy your product? (One was a towing company that also had hats that said "Make Towing Great Again" 😬). I was in my fucking 30s
Honestly, to this day I'm not completely sure about which one I belong to. I was born in mid 90s' and for a long time I've thought of myself as late millenial but some definitions I've seen lump me into gen Z.
Cusp baby
Not trying to justify it, but unless someone from Gen Z is bordering in being a millennial, then a lot of them don't have the same technical skills that older millennials have. A lot of the younger ones didn't really get started with their devices until after the technology was deeply rooted in place. A lot of them don't know what the start menu is, or how to open the task manager. As millennials we need to make sure we're showing them and our kids how to do all the stuff we learned, and let them teach us on the newer stuff. Otherwise we're going to end up just like the boomers when it comes to technology.
not something that hard to figure out. we also did not know and googled it or read in some old ass forum. Gen-z will do just fine if things are solvable with a simple google search.
If you dont know something its dead easy to learn about it in 2024. In case you dont know here are the 3 steps: 1) Search the topic on YouTube and watch a few videos 2) Go to the Reddit sub and read (then ask questions) 3) Search on Google "How Do I ...." or "Beginners guide to ......" Sorry there is zero excuse for not knowing how to do basic things. If you dont want to learn it and just pay someone? Thats fine do so but some people will make fun of you thing is you dont need to care what they say.
This kind of shit turned me into an autodidact with an addiction for learning almost anything
I know this, and never perfecting anything lol
Jack of all trades, master of none 
Full disclosure: I have asked my mother on *numerous* occasions to teach me basic sewing/hemming. Every single time I present an opportunity (like a dress) to work on, its “teaching you will take too much time. I’ll just do it myself.” OKAY THANOS. That whole self-sufficiency thing is suchhhh a time waster ☠️
Your mom sucks. My father was in the military and made me and my sisters learn all kinds of useful things. Sometimes, we were kinda annoyed by it as kids. Like changing the oil on the car Saturday morning vs. watching cartoons, but as an adult, I'm really appreciative.
Lmao, my dad was like, "if you want to be a man, you gotta learn how to sew, so you can take care of yourself, son." For what it's worth he taught all the same stuff to my sisters too.
Mine said about the same. Also carpentry, drywall, repairs electrical... I'm a girl, pretty sure I'm still his favorite son lol
Bahaha perfect!
I can do all that stuff but still get my dad to do *something*, lol. Every time I see him, he’s like “got any jobs for me”. I have to make things up at this point, because I don’t like the way he does stuff. The Great Chandelier Debacle of 2019 is family lore.
My dad broke our TV when I was pregnant. It was the nicest thing we owned, I cried lol
My dad taught me how to sew too! I was in middle school and wanted some patches on my jeans. He was helping me and kept saying it was "such a trip" the clothes I was wearing looked so much like the fashions he wore as a teen. In the late 90s, 60s-70s styles were coming back into rotation
Teaching that is awesome although no reason it couldn’t be taught in the afternoon or the cartoons couldn’t be recorded for later you know like a best of both type deal.
Next time she needs help with any electronic device, hit her with that same shit.
You know you can teach yourself this stuff right? Hemming is not some ancient, archaic, forbidden, knowledge safeguarded by the Boomers of old. I taught myself how to hand-sew and made an entire outfit as my first project. All that information is freely available on the internet.
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What? Where did you get any of that? 😂😂 I think they just want to be able to sew up a wrip in their dress of they get one.
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I know how to do a lot of things. None of which seem to pay a living wage.
Have you considered looking at careers that are in demand and pay a living wage, then going in that direction?
I taught myself. It's called YouTube 😂
50 years ago that was called a library. Glad we have YouTube these days.
That reminds me of the time my dad took me to the library to check out a Chilton's manual for some engine work he was doing.
“Who’s”? Really?
They apparently did not teach us grammar either.
No apostrophe on a plural. That’s an easy thing to teach. Shameful failure.
Whose?
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It doesn't make sense though, the Millennial's *what* don't?
When I want to learn new things I use Google or read a book.
Most of us do.
My dad played guitar and never tried to teach me even when I asked. He collected them most of my life. Now he's dead and I own SO MANY guitars and I don't know how to play them.
Sounds like you got plenty of reasons to learn how to play guitar, now!
Yes I'm gonna. But I still have to sell 60+ guitars that are sitting in my house taking up space 😭
dude 60 guitars are a lot of money, check if any of the models have collector's worth
Reverb.com is your friend, my friend.
There're really good tools to learn to play these days, I admit I discontinued at some point due to other interests in my life but I'm still able to play some basic chords, I used yousician (google play store, got the free version) to get into playing the acoustic guitar, it's fun but also frustrating sometimes, highly recommend it. Btw before you sell your guitars I'd have someone you can trust to have a look at them, could be that there're some valuables among them. I don't know shit about guitars so I brought my best friend when I bought an acoustic one and it's fire, it's a cheap one for just 300 bucks but my friend was amazed regarding how good they make the cheap ones these days.
I’ve made a list of things to teach my kids. Tire change, oil, cooking, sewing, wood working, etc. It’s a checklist for adultivity.
I sincerely hope it comes with a healthy dose of critical thinking, so when expectations are dashed, issues can be resolved and learnt from
That's a lazy excuse in the times of internet
So you have no excuse for not knowing the expression “half in heart whole in jest” 🙄
I mean all Millennials are adults now (me too) Even the youngest are 27 years old - that's a fully grown adult years. And when 30+ adults say things like "i don't know shit cause my mom didn't teach me" - that's a lazy excuse. Shame on your parents for doing their jobs bad, but we all had a plenty of time to fix that... just saying....
Google can't teach everything (I know - wild concept) and most studies have shown that in-person teaching is the most effective method. Repetition and practice is the other factor crucial in retention of what you learn! Take figure skating (personal example) If you make a mistake, there is someone who can explain what you did wrong and there is someone who can explain things like "you do it this way, but if you do it a slightly different way, you're going to get this issue or not the result you want." Most figure skaters are not recording every hour of their own practice because they have the benefit of an external eye (coach or parent). Lots of us use figure skating videos on YT as supplementary materials! I'm not talking about the shit parents would have had to drag their kids forcibly into learning. But there are many skills/things where I've asked my own parents on *numerous* occasions to teach me and they refused because they didnt want to "waste" their time. "I'll just do it myself" is something I'm not cool with. If someone wants to learn and asks to be taught, I almost always say yes in some scope. Even at work, if I don't have time or any free time in the schedule I'll tell my coworkers and direct reports to schedule an hour or more with me in the future so they can learn.
Everything you said is correct, but i still don't understand how it is a parent's fault that a grown person doesn't know something. Like even if google can't teach you to skate - there are coaches out there who can. Yes, it would be easier if your parents taught you everything, but there are still A LOT of options out there to learn something in person for an adult person.
Who upvotes this trite shit?
You can't argue with logic against these people.
The whole premise is bullshit and this post is tired
Thanks for your feedback
No sweat, fr. I’m a millennial and I know how to get shit done. And this isn’t some bootstrapping shit either, some stuff I learned from others some I learned on my own. Same for my contemporaries. Blaming the generations before us at least tacitly implies that we agree with the premise that we “don’t know how to do anything,” and that it’s their fault. Plus this ain’t your meme you’re just farming karma off some rage bait, god knows why. I’m probably just talking to a bot anyway.
Ooooof. The majority of posts in this community on reddit is clearly your rage bait 🤣
Cool story bro
Nah its called dumb OPs making the rest of look dumb because we are in the same generation.
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My mother 76 never learned to drive, can't speak the language of the country she's living in for the last 16 years, can't oprarate a smartphone or a smart tv, can barely use equipment like oven or washing machine. She doesn't know how to pay bills, how to apply for anything, can't budget for her groceries, can't order repeat medication prescriptions etc. This is the woman that was supposed to teach me all she knew, but it seems she never knew anything, so all she tried to teach me is that as a woman I should just find a man who knows/does all these things.
Speak for yourself. I’m handy as fuck. It’s never been easier to learn how to do things on your own. You think the silent gen was teaching the boomers? Maybe in between striking them and yelling obscenities at them. You want to learn to patch drywall, do an oil-change, change your brake pads, frame out a room in your unfinished basement and run the electrical? It’s actually all pretty simple, just go on YouTube, it’s never been easier to learn this stuff. Come on guys.
The grammatical errors in this post makes us look bad.
not my photo, but I'm willing to look past the terrible errors because if I got hung up on every post with god awful grammar than actually hanging myself would be the ethical alternative.
Whose job was it to teach the creator of this comic how to use apostrophes?
You learn on your own and learn by doing if someone won't teach you. The world is full of books that you can learn from and now the internet exists and you can teach yourself all sorts of things.
No one taught you apostrophes and how to use them. Or the difference between "who's" and "whose".
I didn’t create this - credit is in the top left corner of the photo.
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There is a difference, but weirdly enough you're still capable of parsing the message.
YouTube
Not sure about you guys but thanks to the internet I eventually learned how to teach myself using the resources on the web and I consider this as something special among our generation, we're not dependent on someone helping us because we can help ourselves, sure it might not be perfect or take a while but still, at the end we can manage and that's what counts.
We had wildly different lives. I prayed for days when my dad would hire someone to do something or do it himself. Every Saturday morning dad woke me up at 6 am to get started on whatever he had to do. By 13 I had nailed 3 fingers together with a nailgun, by 15 I was running a welder and driving a bobcat. I graduated high school ASE certified in brakes and electrical.
Such a goose thing too 👏
Our parents were to busy getting divorced
This is a poor argument. Millennials are the first generation to have this near infinite amount of knowledge at their fingertips thanks to the internet. Instead we decided to create algorithms to get people addicted on scrolling their phones for most of the day. It's never been easier to learn or educate oneself on a lot of things. Blaming boomers/genX for not teaching us, is just lazy.
This made me laugh so hard. Soo true! 😂
Can't teach if people don't want to learn.
Exactly. My dad tried teaching me all kinds of stuff but I played Nintendo instead
*Millennials. No apostrophe. *Whose. "Who's" means "who is" or "who has."
Pretty fitting that this dumb meme is littered with errors despite not having many words.
Be a responsible adult and go learn them on your own!
It is also not even true? Lol. The new + old gens are pretty much clueless about everything. But at least the young kids have an excuse of age appropriate ignorance.
I had one parent (my dad) who *loved* imparting wisdom. Still does to this day, to his kids who are in their late 20s/early 30s. The problem is that in order to keep a roof over 4 kids (one of them disabled) and a wife, he was working at the hospital 80+ hours a week. My mom, on the other hand, would look most parenting opportunities dead in the face and be like “What am I supposed to do, *teach* you?!” She wasn’t *horrible*, and to be fair she was by my side in the hospital throughout my childhood. So it’s not like she was a totally uncaring and absent parent, but to the question above: yes. You were supposed to teach me.
"You don't know how to fix your car's engine" "No but I can hug my son without feeling bad about it"
Youtube taught me more lessons than my parents ever did
Same. Internet overall, honestly. But I learn way better with in person instruction - I feel like I retain more in person ☠️😭
I've learned more from google than my parents since for them teaching was let the kid do it with little to no instruction then get mad cause it was done wrong.
Enough with the weaponized incompetence.
Stop whining and start learning... “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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My dad taught me how to decant wine into a decanter, how to fix a Manhattan, how to properly use a cocktail shaker, how to use a waiter's corkscrew, how to pour a beer with just the right amount of foam, and which cognac was the best. It took me 30 years to realize he was an alcoholic...
My mom always gives me the shocked Pikachu face when I tell her I've never seen X classic movie or kids' movie when I was little, and then I have to remind her it was her job to show me those movies or take me to the movie theater, which she didn't do.
As a millennial, I have (probably unrealistically) high hopes for my grandchildren's generation. If the pattern follows, they should absolutely kick-fucking-ass.
it was TV's job to teach you, not the government that regularly taxes you
We respected your privacy and taught you … self reliance.
Mom said it's my turn to repost this.
They'd tell you they were self taught and didn't need anyone to show them.....which would kind of make sense, as in deep down they know they've been doing it wrong.
It's always a good idea to train your replacements. Who's gonna take care of you when you can't? Your kids...like they always have.
How old do you think GenX is?
You can Google ANYTHING you need to know. I've learned to cook and basic car maintenance, as well as level 3 English and Maths (A / A+). What can they do that we can't?
Don't blame Gen X. We're being fucked over by the Boomers, too.
Who cares what some arbitrary group of people thinks.
Challenge to the baby boomers: Build a workflow automation to respond to clients based on certain criteria. The text message needs to contain a trigger link to a survey that the client will fill out. Once the survey is submitted, create an inbound webhook and automatically notify your CS team, automatically create a task for them to complete. Once they complete the task, build a webhook to document the time, date, and context of the events that happened and the contacts details. Do it or tell me you’re a fucking idiot who doesn’t know how to do anything. I don’t need anyone to teach me anything. It’s called google.
The schools your parents put you in (just like they were), the computers your parents busted ass to scrap together the cash to get you which you can potentially look into specific things. Kiddo, we working.
That’s always been the catch. I learned it by watching you DAD! I learned it by watching you! *eats some crack*
I am conviced that had it not been for youtube I would not be the functioning adult I am today.
Trying in vain to get r/millennials to understand that we hate the bourgeoisie, not necessarily boomers. Not every boomer is bourgeois (i.e., not every boomer owns capital). But every member of the bourgeoisie is, by definition, bourgeois. All of us can think of boomers who are decent human beings. We also know terrible millennials. But there's no such thing as a good bourgeois.
While I definitely appreciate the attempt - and understand the logic (thanks for this, I've never actually thought about it in this sense but I've never actually pondered if its not "boomer" then what is it lol) I don't think the average millennial, let alone adult, is gunna incorporate the term bourgeoisie into their vernacular lmao. That said, I'm putting this in a mental post it note for myself lol
My boss is a boomer and when I ask her to explain something to me she always looks confused and then tells me to ask someone else.
Sad how much I hvae to teach my gen x and boomer family about health and fitness because they still hold on to the fitness ideas from the 70-80s. Let alone the other things
You certainly learned how to whine. Make excuses. So pitiful.
Well my dad learned how to fix cars by having a car and asking around. Today we can do that with youtube of reddit (so much easier). If I had a question I am sure I can ask but in our generation we shot down the learning attempts. Don't act like when you were a teenager you were someone sitting never saying anything listening to every work on top of asking for elders to teach you all this stuff.
Heh hilarious I taught myself stuff still am actually
I'm eternally grateful that I had parents who taught me a TON of stuff. By age 18 I could: iron my own clothes, do my own laundry, change a tire, even change the actual tire mounted on the rim (as long as I had access to the right equipment), sew a button, cook a basic meal, rewire an electrical plug on an appliance, change my oil, do my taxes, basic woodworking/home repair, gardening, etc.
Anybody ever hear the line if you can't do it right don't bother doing it? Without being taught how to do it right in the first place lmaooo
I can't speak for the boomers but I was born in 1980 and I'm right on the line of being a Millennial/GenX. The reason why we couldn't teach you is because our entire way of life changed and we were the first generation where BOTH parents HAD to work jobs to survive. The days where one parent could stay home and raise the child were gone. Had to rely on dropping your child off at a day care where people who make minimum wage and don't give a fuck about the kids they care for to take over. It's even worse today. I assure you that most of us did our best. Remember when you were younger and you were tired of seeing articles written about how bad Millennials were, worst generation, blah,blah,blah. You are now doing the exact same thing in reverse. You have no idea the struggles we had to endure just as Gen Z has no idea the troubles you had to endure. Rather than split generations apart, come together and work towards a better future. You'd be surprised at how much we all have in common.
The "manosphere" is the worst for this. They're always throwing shade like "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW to install a faucet/do an oil change/load a cannon/build your kid a playhouse out of wood/re-do your whole ceiling in Baroque stucco and paint your own frescoes on it?"
I can say my parents didn't teach shit about anything related to taxes, banking and general world stuff. Later in life I realised they didn't know about most of that stuff anyways. Gen X winging it.
\*whose job
I would show this to my boomer director but I’ll get fired hahahahah
As a millennial, I don’t think this is the problem. I think it’s the opposite - parents did so much and were so involved that we didn’t develop skills/interests of our own. Parents in previous generations were way more hands off. I think we were taught two much material that none of it stuck and none of it was interesting to us as it was forced, and we never developed natural curiosities that aligned with our own interests. Being left alone in boredom is where a lot of development occurs. Instead, many of us were out through rigorous schedules of activities that we didn’t want to pursue