Posted on 12/04/2023 11:19:39 AM PST by DallasBiff
Millennials have put off having children, so boomers are the oldest grandparents ever. Many millennial parents say they can't get the support they need from their parents.
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What percentage of modern adults with young children live close to their parents and grandparents, or even live in the same city or state?
Child: “I think it would be best to wait until I’m in my late 30s to have my 1.7 children. Plus, my boyfriend plans to have his sex operation once the children arrive so our children will have two mommies. I don’t want to make a commitment that I might regret, so we aren’t getting married. We will save money by using you as baby-sitters. Can I borrow the car to attend the protest tonight?
Mom and Dad: I hope you will move out of the house at that point. We will be 70 by that time and having worked hard all our life, putting you and your 3.4 siblings through college, we finally have our house paid for so we plan to travel and buy a little vacation cabin at the lake. Also, do you finally have your own health insurance? And by the way, you need to pay your portion of the cell-phone bill. You haven’t contributed to that in four months.
Child: How selfish of you!
Ha!
When I was growing up, Grandpa (Mom’s Dad) and Great Aunt
(Dad’s side) lived with us - just how it was done.
When my parents were old - I moved them from MI. to MD. and they lived with us til passing.
Now no kids - we moved to Hawaii...
When I get old and decrepit - Ice Floe is the way to go...
Also:
Mom and Dad (calling child): Our refrigerator broke and your Dad needs help moving it out of the kitchen. Could you come over this weekend and give us a hand?
Child: I have a meeting with my friends to help make posters for our anti-Israel protest this weekend. Sorry can’t make it? Can’t the Lowe’s guys just take it when they deliver the new one?
Mom: We gave you our “new fridge” savings to bail you out of jail last month so we are having to get a used one from a Walmart co-worker of your Dad’s. The co-worker has an artificial knee so can’t help with the fridge moving. It shouldn’t take but a couple of hours.
Child: No can do! But, that reminds me. I have 24 parking tickets on the car you loaned me and the cops will probably tow it next time. The last one was at the handicapped parking spot at Star-bucks, and he was so rude...that toxic masculinity is so unnerving! Haven’t you received the notices? You really need to pay those. BTW, one of the dash lights keep blinking. Does that mean anything?
Dad: [as he hangs up]: Honey, I’ve heard Aruba is nice this time of the year. Let’s take our money we are saving for for the kids next bail fund and just go wild. What do you say?
Mom [sighing]: Do you think we will ever have grandchildren?
Husband: I hope not! Who would want to be around the little cretins? Now, if we leave next Wednesday, we can save on airfare........btw, do you still have that little white and pink nightgown I got you for Christmas a few years ago?
Mom: Oh sweetie! Do you remember that night.....?
A granddaughter age 25 in my extended family (my cousin’s kid) recently emailed me to ask why I hadn’t answered her Facebook party announcement for her one year old, but if I couldn’t come, I could still give a gift. I felt that was in poor taste since it was a quickie Facebook communication, plus I’m now on a limited income and the kid hasn’t visited or calledtf, then this tasteless request for a gift. Just because I gave the granddaughter gifts when she was growing up, am I obligated to finance the next generation?
Mass daycare, like today? Or just 1/1000 children?
I’m asking honestly, because my mom was a housewife. I assumed that was the norm. However, I could be wrong.
While I don’t really mean to paint with a broad brush, because not everybody hates their children to be rid of them, the world we live in is the world bequeathed to us by baby boomers.
Nicely stated, my good FRiend, and fellow USAF Veteran!
Regular, ordinary daycare, of course the percentage of children being raised in daycare is higher but it existed for the working moms who could afford it in the 1950s.
My mother couldn’t afford it so I only saw it for a few months during kindergarten I could walk from that daycare center to kindergarten.
“””the world we live in is the world bequeathed to us by baby boomers.”””
That is a statement of someone who doesn’t know American history.
I don’t give advice to my 30 something kids. I’m not sure they would listen to me anyway. Except that I know they all think hubby and I are remarkable people, and how did we do that? They’ll learn, if they know what’s good for them. I think they are watching and trying to figure it out. If they ask, I’ll fill them in. But I don’t give them advice unless they’re asking.
I would say, “you poor thing”, but maybe you feel differently.
What are the 6 generations by age?
GENERATIONS Defined:
The Greatest Generation – born 1901-1924.
The Silent Generation – born 1925-1945.
The Baby Boomer Generation – born 1946-1964.
Generation X – born 1965-1979.
Millennials – born 1980-1994.
Generation Z – born 1995-2012.
Gen Alpha – born 2013 – 2025.
Not my kids, and we didn’t either. For statistical purposes. We span the country, coast to coast.
Your mom was a housewife and you bashed those of us who made the decision to stay at home, despite our degrees and professional experience? Even more ugh. You’ve learned nothing about your mom. I bet she was a wonderful woman, and had many, many talents.
I didn’t bash housewives. I just said that daycare was popularized by the babyboomers.
My preference would be that there is one parent, preferably the mother, staying home with the children. Our children became sociopaths because of daycare because have various levels of detachment disorders.
If millenials would call their parents from time to time, they might see a little more willingness to accommodate their wants and needs.
Is it polite for me, a BB, to go tell you to GFY?
My children were the greatest blessing I was ever given, and I was privileged to be their stay-at-home college-educated, professional mother who gave that up to make sure my kids were raised right.
Nobody paid me for that time, and nobody volunteered to take it over without being remunerated (that means an occasional babysitter, not daycare). Think about that the next time you decide to disrespect your own stay at home mother. I bet you anything she had talents that weren’t given awards or raises.
Does seem that way doesn’t it. Yet I have done NONE of the BS things they accuse my generation of. Which BTW (to ‘them’ not you) spans enough years for our children to be essentially raised by 2 different ‘boomer’ generations- with very different outcomes.
Hoes can’t get their divorce money.
Hoes have single mom.
Public school = How not to live.
Womb massacre.
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