re: As A Gen X Guy and Dad, I'm Sorry

Gen X have really crapped the bed on parenthood

Because I’d tell them to…

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Is it just me or does society not allow boys to be boys and girls to be girls? When I was growing up, it seemed like it was normal for boys to fight each other. At recess when the boys were playing football and two kids got in a fight, they would get sent to the principal office, they would be told "next time I am going to call your parents" and then send them back to class. Rough housing was sort of normal.

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Freaking this. Shout it from the damn rooftops. I’m a mom, and it’s so obvious that the modern school system disproportionately sets little boys up to fail in so many ways - not enough recess, asking them to navigate through 5 different apps to find their homework, treating my 9 year old like he’s some imminent threat to his classmates because he made a finger gun at someone. Give me a damn break. Eventually, they just decide there’s no way they can please certain people, and when you put a little boy or a little girl into that type of circumstance, which one do you think is far more likely to say “frick you” and check out. We have to do better by our boys. They aren’t defective girls, and that’s how they are treated.

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- Is it just me or does society not allow boys to be boys and girls to be girls? When I was growing up, it seemed like it was normal for boys to fight each other.

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One more thing on this - it’s not just that society doesn’t allow it, but modern society doesn’t give boys many chances to physically check one another anymore. When my little wild child boy was six or seven years old, he would continually get in other kid‘s faces during baseball practices and games. I kept telling him that he was eventually going to do that to the wrong boy. After about 18 months of my saying that, he looked at me and said, “Mom, you keep saying that. What are you talking about?” I told him – baby, you’re gonna get punched in the face. His eyes got wide and he shouted “they can’t do that!” I’ll never forget that comment because it hit me like a bolt of lightning. In that moment, I realized he was right. They can’t do that because there’s always a parent or a coach or a teacher there to stop it. That’s when I told him we had a new set of rules in our house: School gets out at 3:15. Don’t you walk in that front door until five. It was time he met some boys who “could do that.”

half of women in the work force are complete fakes as well as being complete psychopaths, regardless of generation


they constantly whine to upper management males, bat their eyelashes, and probably give out uber upper management blowjobs.

they live to create pathological lies in board meetings

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You put him around public school kids

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You don’t need public school kids. You just need unsupervised kids.

The interesting thing is that unsupervised play time after school has become his absolute favorite thing in the world. He’d rather me take sports, video games, anything from him before I take that away. He’s also never come home with a black eye. Turns out he knows how to control himself when adults aren’t around to bail him out.