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re: As A Gen X Guy and Dad, I'm Sorry
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:03 pm to Sao
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:03 pm to Sao
OK. Not surprised but let's try to interpret this again, Gen X dad's
quote:
As A Gen X Guy and Dad, I'm Sorry
Posted by Sao 9/1/25 at 1:48 pm
I'm not sure what happened. Our children didn't get our slap upside the head message handed down to them.
I hate to say this, but Millennial dads, you're the last hope
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Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:05 pm to Sao
Did you ever use clothes pins and playing cards on your Schwinn or Western Flyer bicycle to make a motor sound?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:12 pm to OweO
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- At what age do you expect your kids to get a job?
- How much do you think technology/social media has influenced how you parent?
- Is it just me or does society not allow boys to be boys and girls to be girls
13 year old son s already pressure washing driveways and selling/trading sneakers to make money. 11 year old daughter is likely to do nothing as long as the ex wife lets her. I'm going to push for them to get jobs at 16, but the boy can ride his scooter to a number of places nearby, and I can teach him about taxes.
Social media is 100% a huge problem, even though they don't yet have any accounts. It's the text groups they start to work on projects with other kids that get out of control, and it's all the other little shits with social media accounts that take pictures of your kids and post them to Snapchat groups, talk shite about other kids constantly (the girls are the predominant instigators, the boys just sort of ignore it.)
Girlz rule, haven't you heard? Most of the boys in junior high/elementary are total pussies, there are no fights.
The crush thing is worse among my kids' peers, there is constant girl drama about dating. The boys, as you expect, mostly are oblivious at my kids' ages. They're more worried about sports.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:18 pm to Bullfrog
No. I had a Huffy, Redline then a Kx80r. And a TRX125 4 wheeler in 84.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:25 pm to Sao
Folks he means "in general" not that he or any specific Gen X parent did a bad job.
If you can't tell a difference between the current generation entering the workforce and previous generations, you aren't paying attention.
Not all are lazy, dodge responsibility, shirk accountability and have less ability to work independently, but a much bigger percentage than previous generations.
If you can't tell a difference between the current generation entering the workforce and previous generations, you aren't paying attention.
Not all are lazy, dodge responsibility, shirk accountability and have less ability to work independently, but a much bigger percentage than previous generations.
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:29 pm to greenbean
Thank you.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:43 pm to Sao
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Our children didn't get our slap upside the head message handed down to them
Speak for yourself.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:45 pm to Sao
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I'm not sure what happened. Our children didn't get our slap upside the head message handed down to them.
Speak for yourself...Puss.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:46 pm to Sao
Speak for yourself… my daughters would kick your kids arse and are tough as nails in every way because we did not spare the rod… they are exactly who and what my wife and I raised them to be. Fine Christian Conservative Southern young women.
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:47 pm to Sao
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But I'm perplexed about Gen X women having babies
You know a lot of 45 year old woman having babies do you?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:59 pm to DMAN1968
Think that over again
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:03 pm to ghoast
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Speak for yourself… my daughters would kick your kids arse and are tough as nails in every way because we did not spare the rod… they are exactly who and what my wife and I raised them to be. Fine Christian Conservative Southern young women.
You mother frickers aren't reading my tea leaves lol. It's not about YOU. But the offspring off OUR offspring in GENERAL. Goddammit.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:19 pm to LemmyLives
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there are no fights.
I know people will not agree, but this isn't healthy. I have a 2 year old great nephew. You know what his favorite thing to do is? When his daddy gets home he gets excited, like a dog does when his owner comes home because that little bastard loves to wrestle with his daddy. His daddy wrestled in HS and is into one of the marshal arts and they will enroll him in I like Jiu Jitsu when.. I think they said he is 4. But thats what boys do from an early age.
I think there has been a demasculation of males. They are not allowed, as much, to release all that pent up energy & I think thats part of the reason a lot of them today have trouble with women, etc, etc
Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:08 am to Sao
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You mother frickers aren't reading my tea leaves lol. It's not about YOU. But the offspring off OUR offspring in GENERAL. Goddammit.
That’s not the way you worded your post… you asked about Gen X, I’m Gen X ‘75 and I gave you my scenario… maybe you should pose your question better…
Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:15 am to ghoast
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Speak for yourself… my daughters would kick your kids arse and are tough as nails in every way because we did not spare the rod… they are exactly who and what my wife and I raised them to be. Fine Christian Conservative Southern young women.
If they’re fine Christian Conservative Women why would they kick my arse?
Posted on 9/2/25 at 7:39 am to Riverside
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A huge percentage of Gen Z is unemployable.
Gots that 'Zoomer Stare' when trying to explain/train them on things, and a light reprimand "creates" a toxic work environment.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:06 am to Sao
I'll tell you what happened,
We were the first generation of latchkey kids. The first ones left at home when we were 12 or so. There is also the matter of rising divorce rates. So guess what happened? We didn't learn how to parent because too many parents were not at home.
We were the first generation of latchkey kids. The first ones left at home when we were 12 or so. There is also the matter of rising divorce rates. So guess what happened? We didn't learn how to parent because too many parents were not at home.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:38 am to Sao
The worst Dad isn't the one that spanks his kids.
It's the one that ignores them.
It's the one that ignores them.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:44 am to prplhze2000
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We were the first generation of latchkey kids. The first ones left at home when we were 12 or so. There is also the matter of rising divorce rates. So guess what happened? We didn't learn how to parent because too many parents were not at home.
Right to vote and the invention of the microwave oven in the 50s killed the US. Microwave and food after totally fricked us.
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 10:47 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 11:24 am to greenbean
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If you can't tell a difference between the current generation entering the workforce and previous generations, you aren't paying attention.
I do honestly feel sorry for this generation of young people and the constant need to be tuned into to the internet at all times. While social media can be very fun (TD, obviously ), so much of it is just completely broken people perpetuating and normalizing depression, anxiety, safe spaces, emotional support pets, and on and on.
These are people who have NEVER been given a voice in any broad sense, and many would have been institutionalized. Now they can shovel their idiocy to every one on the planet in a single Tik Tok story. It's wild, and we (Gen X) didn't grow up this way in any sense of the word.
It makes parenting harder and you have to be so much more intentional about raising strong, level-minded adults. Society used to help that along, for the most part. Now we have to worry about pronouns and boys in girls bathrooms.
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