Boomers who insist they "did everything right" often raised children who don't know how to identify their own emotions - The Expert Editor
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Despite providing stable homes, good educations, and endless opportunities, an entire generation of "perfect parents" accidentally created adults who can't tell the difference between feeling disappointed and feeling angry.
  • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
    51·
    3 months ago

    I’m fairly old but not a Boomer.

    The vast majority of parents do the best they can when raising their children; I know my parents did, and I know we did. No-one is perfect and kids don’t come with instruction manuals so we all have regrets. Articles like this one don’t offer actionable solutions; they’re pure clickbait sermonising and they irritate the shit out of me. Obvs just my opinion and I expect to be downvoted.

    • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
      21·
      3 months ago

      the end of the article (written by a self-proclaimed boomer) says

      We Boomers need to stop defending our parenting with “well, you turned out fine” when our kids clearly didn’t turn out fine – they turned out functional but emotionally handicapped.

      what more “actionable solution” do you want in an article with such a narrow scope?

      it’s weird that you’re not a boomer but are butthurt about a criticism of boomers. written by a boomer.

      • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        There’s no strategies that could / should have been used, just a statement to stop defending their parenting. Criticism is fine but constructive criticism suggests solutions.

        I am weird. I use capital letters for a start.

        • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
          2·
          3 months ago

          dude, with every comment you reinforce the (obvious) suggestion that you didn’t even read the damn thing.

          “strategies that could / should have been used” are literally peppered throughout the article, in the form of “instead of doing X, which would have been good, we did Y, which turned out to be bad”–but maybe you aren’t able to parse meaning from something that isn’t explicitly “IF X THEN Y”?

          lol capitals. it’s a thing i do to give people something to attack me about. way to go champ

          i also don’t always use periods GASP

          • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            Shocking! I call 'em full stops. I’m also weirdly attracted to semi-colons.

            I did read the article and I still don’t think the suggestions made were anything other than woolly bollocks, but there you go.