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As a parent of an infant and a 3 year old, it is a LOT of work to raise kids. There ARE embarrassing moments in grocery stores and restaurants and I’ve gotten my share of nasty looks from people when my kiddo is having a tough time. But you know what won’t help them become tolerable human beings? Giving them my phone to distract them through the store. They have to learn how to behave in public and social situations, and It’s my job to teach them, no matter how tired, distracted, or stressed I am.
Thank you. That's exactly how I feel. Giving a child a screen won't teach them how to behave like a proper human being, it's a distraction because the parent is too lazy to parent. I have a 1 month old and I could never just give her a screen when she's older.
I think there was a misunderstanding with the girl complaining about a 9-5, she even says she likes her job in the video and that theres zero problems with the job its that she has to drive like 3 hours totals out of her day to to/from there. What this means is that travel eats all freetime away for basically nothing just 40% of your day gone (assuming you sleep 8 hours and work 8). Anyone dealing with something like this definitely has validity to complain especially when its not even related to the work itself. If anything this is a housing/apartment availability problem which everyone in US is dealing with not just someone complaining about work.
Yeah I think oompa was way off the mark with that one. Just because “that’s how it is and others have it worse” isn’t a valid excuse to keep getting exploited by jobs. Labor laws need a reform for real
@@somi110 exactly! but as he told himself,man had quite a journey of influences on him, so no wonder that he is not really the right guy on some topics like these
@@somi110 i like oompa but this whole video just kinda showed me how out of touch he really is. i would never feed my developing child fast food and garbaghe like that but lets be real you cannot go to the grocery store for a family of 4 and not be spending under 250$ a week, you could eat wendys every day 3 meals a day for probably about 150 to 200
@@Bigboisully sad excuse. problems like that coulda been seen before they decided to have 2 kids. and that wendys estimate is absolutely undoubtedly cap
When my older sister was younger she was throwing a tantrum in the grocery store once and my mom got on the ground and started screaming just like her and it was so jarring to my sister that she stopped and never did it again
With the girl crying she’s talking about how she hates having to drive 3 hours to the job, it’s not that she hates it. She says she loves the job. And I think it’s valid to be upset that she doesn’t get any time for things due to traveling to work taking up most of her time.
agreed!!! i work a job that is super easy to do from home, but my boss makes us drive 1-2 hours to come into work, so i waste the day which makes me upset too! i could be haveing a normal 9-5, but it ends up being more like 8-7 !
Driving over an hr to any job is asinine. Take another couple bucks off that $12 bucks an hr for gas cost and then factor in the wear and tear on your vehicle. No job is worth traveling an hr for.
@@FoulMouthFishing666 where i live in California its known as a "commuter city", most people have to commute around an hour to work because they cant afford to live closer to places like SF or silicon valley.
@@noodlesofoodlesyo I live in KS where everything is 30-45mins away & long highways (Topeka bing 2 hrs away, KS City being 3hrs). It’ll be pretty dumb of me if I get a job 1.5 hrs away. Spending a lot on gas barely breaking even. Especially there are towns close that need workers too 🤦🏼 & you’d have money & not drive the entire time u get off of work… that’s just asinine. Mom used to have hr drive to work. She realized she was being dumb & creating much more work for herself & nothing to show. She transferred closer & drive 10min now. She can now save money
@josephcross3746 I don't know if you accidentally commented on my comment accidentally or if you thought I meant something else, but I accidentally comment on the wrong comment sometimes. I think it might be because I just push the comment area and maybe it goes to a specific comment by itself? Anyone know? Lol I feel real dumb when I comment something and it has nothing to do with the comment it goes on. 😅
I feel like there's a mix between tough love and gentle parenting that works out well. Don't be too tough to where you make your kids cry or feel like they're in prison, but also don't let them walk all over you.
EXACTLY. All tough love, your kid will probably be pretty withdrawn from you, but if you're too gentle, they will have absolutely no experience for when people respond in angry or violent ways, essentially robbing them of a primal survival insitinct. I saw the latter happen to my cousin. She has absolutely no sense of fear for anything but heights. Because she and her siblings were raised in a zero-conflict, no-sharp-edges household where all signs of danger were removed. When she was nine she was hospitalized for trying to pick up a copperhead. You need a mix of both gentle parenting and diciplinary parenting. You want your kids to respond appropriately to whatever situation.
There is a version of gentle parenting (the “true” version) that is pretty much exactly what you’re talking about. Problem is, it’s easier to roll over than constantly explain stuff to kids and be patient and kind when they’re being, you know, KIDS, so people say they’re gentle parenting and instead just let the kids run wild.
It’s unfortunate that so many people can’t grasp this concept. If you’re too unintelligent to not think parenting is binary (only gentle or only tough) then you’re too unintelligent to have kids.
I've been working for about 9 years now. Did 4 years of being a graveyard gas station clerk and then now 5 years of being a barista. The exponential loss of wanting to do the things I love because of the lack of energy is a lot. And sometimes that desire to be 'productive' and 'useful' will bleed into my hobbies, but i will hold onto the fact i am at least doing something for fun. And then ill think back to one of my favorite teachers making us do nothing for a whole minute to teach us that we need to embrace that we don't need to do something every minute of every day. To take some time to do nothing before you lose the ability to....
I remember when I was a kid in the 80's & wanted my dad to buy me a toy, he told me we didnt have the money & I said but you still have checks in the checkbook. When we got home I was forced to sit down with him & listen as he explained all the bills & how he had to schedule them to match his paycheck. I tried to not ask for anything after that lesson.
In the 80s when my dad got a new union job I thought we was rich... when my dad was making 100 a week I thought that was great to... I never got anything but for Xmas or bday
Same i threw a quiet fit over getting desert after dinner one night after church with other church peeps i realized later my dad spent money we didn't really have to take me and him to eat with church friends after being invited and not wanting to look bad by canceling and he was able to get what he could.. I felt terrible and still do. If he had just explained it to me off the bat id never ask again. I was used to my mom getting anything ever and spending above her means but i didn't know at the time
I have seen people who eat and/or drink while they’re shopping but they would take the container to the register and pay for whatever they ate or drank before they left. I have the feeling that a lot of the people who do this at Walmart aren’t paying for it afterwards.
@@alma.blackhawk it turns out our third world country is better maintained than your poor communities. Maybe its the culture of self-respect we have. Not surprising since we don't have the drug culture.
@@hentype dude! Other places being bad doesnt make your country better. Its called a third world country for a reason. Before you go bash America I am not from there
I work on a farm, my bosses oldest son (7) already knows what I need when welding and tries to help out by bringing me things. All of his 3 kids give me hope that humans can have a future. What they are missing in their daily life are Ipads, smartphones, junkfood and idiots. Must be coincidence.
I work two retail jobs and the amount of entitlement and arrogance I see every day is mind boggling. Parents will let their kids destroy a store and then say "It's ok, someone who works here will clean this up, it's their job." It's so frustrating how much of their behavior people will excuse because they think retail workers are so much less than they are and "the customer is always right."💜
I doubt it's because "the customer is always right." It's likely because they're undisciplined and selfish and have high time preference and don't see themselves as a part of a civilisation.
This. I work in a private garden where we take admissions. There’s signs everywhere to not bring picnics in. The amount of litter we end up clearing up at the end of the day from people sneaking their food in is unbelievable. I realise people are worried about spending too much on a day out but we still have staff we need to pay as we have a cafe and they could go to a public park with their picnic. I’ve stopped asking people not to bring them in bc of the amount of abuse we were getting from people with no support from the higher ups over it.
30:00 she was saying the work is fine, her point was that it takes forever to get to that job because living near it would be to expensive and not having time in the day for anything else. Which is a 100% reasonable complaint. Crazy how many people missreperesent the video since she states all of this very clearly.
YES, SHE SHOULD BE FREE TO EXPRESS HER STRESS JUST BECAUSE IT'S NORMAL TO HAVE A ROUGH TIME DOESN'T MEAN PEOPLE HAVE TO MAKE HER FEEL BAD FOR EXPRESSING HER STRESS
you some misguided children and bad parenting and you’re terrified? the internet has created an even bigger magnifying glass than the press; a centuries old business that has been profiting off fear and sowing propaganda since at least the version we know it today has been formed. you choose to continue listening to their madness and foolishness and let them use the internet as they have newspapers instead of using it as an opportunity to use it for yourself and right the sins committed by those before you as they have refused to fix their mistakes and instead to burden us with the task. yet you refuse to do even that as you let this species spiral into null. though it isn’t fair or just, you must perceiver through because now we have the technology and capability to finally stop ourselves from plummeting and we can finally know we have brought a bright future to the generations to come after.
Im a gen z, and its so sad to see my baby brother get handed an ipad at the age of 3, in 2013 i did not even know what an ipad was. now when i try talking to him he just sits there and does nothing, he does not even say anything back. its sad to see the downfall of his generation
When working 40+hrs a week until your basically 80 to retire, if you even are in a position to retire. Only to have nothing to leave the people you care about. Yeah everything just feels like filler until the day you die. And that's the lucky people.
This is exactly why its more brutal for young people rn. Back in the day you could at least know there was a retirement down the line or a vacation later in the year. Im a chemist rn and I dont even make enough to ever retire.
40hrs a week here as an assistant manager. Can't even afford to move out. My savings never stay over 1k - currently my savings sit at £500. My generation (I'm generalising here) don't even have 'rainy day funds', we don't have proper savings. Trying to save enough for deposits is near impossible. My manager who is in her 50s is also in the same boat - her savings never go higher than 1k. In the UK, there's 11 million estimated people with less than 1k in savings. It does all feel hopeless..
The term ‘other people have it worse’ is such a trip because while I agree it’s true we should be thankful for what we have , at the same time it feels like that phrase invalidates the stuff we do struggle with
ive seen a girl mace a teacher for taking her phone in class, kids now consider it as important as a bodypart they treat it like apart of themselves its crazy
I always like to put myself in that situation as an adult now and think about how stressed that would make me having my phone taken from me bc they are so important now a days! I didn’t see the video of that girl but obvi what she did wasn’t okay.. but I’m just fascinated by human psychology though and how I’d feel in that situation
iPad babies, the bane of my existence. My wife and I are expecting our first soon and this video is basically antithetical to how we will raise our kid. Nothing is worse than a spoiled child
Yeah well, giving them excessive screen time is bad, but be careful not to go to the other extreme otherwise you'll be the bane of your child's existence instead. I promise you're not gonna be coming out a winner if you do that unless you're so lucky you have a child capable of raising themselves, in which case it doesn't matter what you do, but i don't think you want to go there. If you're gonna take some screen time away, you should replace it with something else. Like some actual time together, if you care to be a decent parent at all. Lack of involvement and overinvolvement will both traumatize a kid, chaos and oppressive order and authority will both destroy a family. Choose wisely because there isn't an undo button.
@@Dice-Z oh for sure. The whole finding a balance can be the hard part. I'm definitely not against screen time, I grew up playing video games with my brothers. I just also aim to encourage time away from screens. Moderation in all things after all. :)
It's concerning seeing how violent these kids are getting well they're being spoiled. It feels like an abusive household waiting to happen and a lot of these parents don't realize their raising possible abusers :(
I’m a lead custodian in a middle school and can 100% say these kids are INSANELY violent, entitled, rude to other students/staff, they are destructive and constantly vandalizing and destroying the property in sometimes unfixable ways. And parents never hold them accountable “My kid would never do that. I don’t believe you.” It’s scary. They have no structure or consequences.
Ah, yes, setting no limits to a child while they haven't built their moral compass, sense of right and wrong and have limited empathy. That will go well...
My niece and nephew are raised like that because my brother and SIL say that "negative responses like no breeds insecurities" and both kids are little demons.
I hate doing this… but from the time I was 18 until 2 years ago at 28 I worked as a “selector” in a warehouse. You “drove” this motorized pallet jack and picked cases out of warehouse slots to build these pallets to be shipped to stores. Each case was 40-100 lbs, and you had to hit a calculated rate for the cases you selected that ended up being around 220/hr. Now, the base pay at 100% was $24/hr, and for every 1% over that you maintained you got another 10¢ an hour, capped off at 135%. If you went above that you could choose to get paid by the case. It was 7¢ a case for the first 10,000 in a week, and once you went over that it would jump to 15¢ a case. So there was guys making $5000 a week sometimes, since it was a 60 hour week. Then they’d send you across the country and pay for everything while you were gone (hotel, rental, food) and you’d make a flat 13 week average of your highest 13 weeks… so there was money to be made if you literally broke yourself. I’m now 30. I’ve had 2 hernia surgeries, and I need a spinal fusion. I’m sure my replacement’s replacement is already gone.
My bf, his son stays with his mom most of the time, we have him every other weekend. He is ADDICTED TO SCREENS...ANY SCREEN. It is so sad. We try to limit what he can do on a screen but we catch him face glued to the Alexa as a substitute to a tablet, or if we walk in a store or restaurant that has a self check out screen kiosk, electronic advertisement, anything with a screen he instantly runs over and is so fixated on it, we have to pull him away multiple times.....And the mom says she doesn't like him using screens...mhmmmm
I’m gen z and when I was a kid I would find a cool stick or a box and be occupied for a few days then I got bored and started throwing rocks at trees or something
Yeah I'm an older Genz that borders millennial and I feel like I'm part of a dying experience of going to the local creek and playing with sticks and rocks
i do genuinely worry for the kids growing up now, so many kids being left in daycare away from their parents all day, not going outside, having less and less real friends, its honestly scary to think how hard its gonna be for them when they reach adulthood and have no clue what theyre doing
I agree. We need to shift back to the nuclear family with one parent working and one parent home. At least until the kids are school age. But we’re trying so far away from normalcy, it’s scary.
yeah its a shame parents today prefer to both work 8+ hours a day than sit at home all day enjoying life with their kids. It almost seems like they're forced into that situation by living in an economy that costs so much that it requires 2+ incomes.
I got laid off recently and I’ve been the most stress free I’ve been in a while. I dread having to go back. Trying to figure out what hobby I can make into a career because that seems to be the only way out. Will have to find something tolerable in the mean time
as someone whos a gen z person who grew up with phones and ipads, i am turning 18 this year in november and its stressing me out and very stressful but i am going to try my best
You got this!! I don't have all the answers. Nor do I know the key to figuring it all out. But I do know that putting too much pressure on yourself to get it all figured out, and figured out correctly, will do more damage,(mentally and emotionally), then excepting the fact that you will make mistakes and wrong decisions along the way. Understanding and accepting that no one has all the answers takes a lot of that anxiety away. But you must believe in yourself. Believe that no matter what happens you'll figure it out. Meditation helps the mind to focus and see the big picture more clearly. I wish you all the success this world has to offer in whatever you decide to do. Just believe in you. And if it helps, I believe in you. Much peace and love to you and yours from this random old lady.✌️
34:31 personally, at my last job, i used to cry before and after every shift. I worked 8+ hour shifts 6 days a week in a very busy place, and was often scheduled alone due to being understaffed. I think some people just cry when they’re overwhelmed and others are able to just compartmentalize
Some people, like me and my mother, cry for every extreme emotion. Sad, stressed, angry, etc., any overwhelming feeling, all of it will have us in tears when we can't cope with it anymore. oddly enough, I personally have never really cried from overwhelmingly positive emotions. but yes, feeling trapped in a job you don't like or in a situation that feels like a never ending cycle of misery, I'd say a quick cry session before work is valid lol
4:25 The fact I took a whole year of my life to research how to keep little SHRIMP, but this mother couldn't take five minutes to research the dietary requirements for a CHILD is just ... depressing to me. :/ Also shrimp are some of the coolest pets you can own. I adore them. I have a whole 30 gallon tank full of them and snails. It's hard work, but it's worth it cause they are all kinds of cool colors. Yes, I am advertising shrimp, but DO research first. Weeeeeeee.
I love shrimp. I've kept neocaridina shrimp and amono shrimp when I had a fish tank and it was my favorite thing to watch them interact and pick up the little algae wafers like a little burger patty and run away with them and watch them clean the moss ball. Shrimp are so cool and they do come in many different colors but you're right they are fragile and water parameters have to be on point. If I get into fish keeping again one day I would most definitely have a tank of cherry or amano shrimp with a fully dirted live planted tank with some small colorful tetras, possibly some corydoras because I love them as well.
Same I got a hamster earlier this year and let me tell you I researched every aspect of owning one of those critters and it was so worth it. I’m glad I’m able to give my hamster the life she deserves. Parents need to treat human babies with the same love and respect
I’m a child therapist, and in my professional opinion, I agree…they’re fked. The kids who seem to be doing the best do a lot of activities and have limited screen time. Extremely limited for the little ones. Not to make excuses for them but not all parents have the time to be monitoring their kids all the time because of financial reasons. So I think we should think of this as a societal issue. We need free childcare for those who need it. Some of my friends and I are postponing having kids or not having them at all because it’s a hard time to have kids. I don’t think it would be fair to the kid if I had one right now.
the little girl screaming for her mom to clean her room just gave me flashbacks to all the times I got in trouble for my messy room and had to clean it up myself
Yknow? My parents always told me I have a 5 day time limit to get it clean or theyll throw anything on my floor away. Gave me more time then needed to get it done, and if I didnt, well. Everything got thrown away. I leanred to keep my room clean. Also learned its nice to be able to have open space.
@@tristambre632it's definitely "I dont know what" but I could see translation varying based on where in the world you learned your French cause that happens. "Officialy" it means I don't know what.
Had a work panic attack the other day.. fell over shaking walking into the metal detectors right at the time clocks in front of all of managers and supervisors. Had to go to HR, they thought i was under the influence and it all just threw me into another spiral. I still have my job so thats cool. Hearing you gave the boy inpiration to keep pursuing my dreams, amongst the inevitble work, exhaustion, and struggle.
I grew up in the rural south in the 1990-2000s. So many people I knew ate a very similar diet that the first mom is showing. I really don’t think this is a new phenomenon. It’s just that people show it on social media now.
@@ILoveLamp-sj4bx Where did I say it was healthy and acceptable? Acknowledging that it is likely a generational problem is helpful in understanding and trying to correct. I work in healthcare and talk to patients every day about healthier lifestyle choices.
I’ve come across a family eating the chicken from the deli in the non-grocery area. And they were all adults and were just blocking up the whole area and didn’t seem to care. No one was recording.
@@SarahNovayour happy other people have it because than you BECAUSE people have it worse than you would you rather you both be miserable, just be happy that someone is happy because it’s better than everyone being miserable and it’s impossible for everyone to be happy
Most stores including Walmart do not care about drinking or consuming food in their store as long as they eventually pay for it, I would spend 2 hours at Walmart and drink a vitamin water while I was shopping but I would scan the empty bottle when I got to the self check out and still pay for it
There was only ever one time I remember stealing a drink doing that. I downed a dr pepper and threw it out without paying for it. And ended up getting away with it.
I watched a CPS hearing where this lady (at a supervised visit) was trying to feed her kid. She pretended to feed a Mickey Mouse doll and then punched him in the face when he didn’t eat the food, bc she saw it on tiktok. Idk if she ever got her kid back but I tell ya what the judge was NOT impressed.
I feel that it is valid to feel like some people feel about working a 9-5. In this current economy, my generation cannot EVER buy a house to live in. I have seen videos of people on Twitter living in their cars whilst having a full time job because they cannot afford the rent. Saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in college loans, they feel that it is hopeless. And in that sense, it kind of is. It is truly sad to witness.
@@njcknamesYou act like it's any better outside of your country's bubble lol. I'm gonna guess you're American from your comments, but no. It's no better most anywhere else. In fact, in some places like say, Japan, it's *worse.*
@@ryudhal I didn’t say it was better I’m deadass saying it’s worse and she could have it worse. U just took it out of context. I’m guessing ur from the uk the way ur negative ab Americans even tho u prolly never been here
@@njcknamesno one said or assumed life would be easy. We just didn't think it would be completely hopeless. Telling young people to take accountability for listening to what the older generation said to do (take out loans to go to college, work hard) doesn't make sense. They listened to those they thought knew better when they had no life experience. People are willing to work hard, IF it leads to something worthwhile and meaningful. It doesnt anymore. Now you just work until death with barely anything to make it worth it
@@BabeDollB Ironically i think this kid sees life too optimistically. Not the other way around like they're claiming. They sound exactly like the strawmen they're trying to criticise. They think life will just work out as long as you work.
@@BabeDollB I agree w everything but the start. As a kid everyone’s taught life like it’s simple especially thru media. It was never simple. Come as u are. Show it as it is. Exactly why I encourage people to read the Bible even if they aren’t believers
The worst customers [I think] that I encounter in retail are the parents that just let their kids do whatever in the store. I always say they need to pay us for babysitting, because I routinely have to stop kids from doing dangerous/damaging things.
The amount of times I've nearly run kids over with store vehicles because they just run around corners, and the parent just yells to them "hey, I told you to stop running," and then precedes to ignore them again omfg. I had kids start playing tag in front of me while I was pushing a heavy vehicle that would have probably broken their toes if I didn't stop in time (bc I can't stop heavy vehicles immediately) and the mom just turned around and continued shopping without saying anything. They continued to block me and play tag until she walked off.
Exactly, and when you don't stop them and something happens, instead of considering that they're being bad parents, they blame you for their problems and refuse to acknowledge their own.
22:35 I mean Im only 15 but when I was young I had a lot of undiagnosed issues (specifically AuDHD) that made me not be able to eat certain foods without genuinely crying because of the texture (I had and have terrible sensory issues) and I was forced by my stepdad to eat foods I didn't like in the typical yelling, 'you get up when your done' type of way, and it never really worked for me. It made me resentful of my mom and step dad, didn't enlarge my pallet at all, and eventually made me develop anorexia because of, obviously, body image issues, but also because eating anything brought back the memories of being forced to eat and made me feel ill. People will say 'Oh, well it's obviously an exception because you have a developmental disability!!' But the whole thing is I was UNDIAGNOSED. My family didn't suspect it at all because I had a severely autistic cousin who was low functioning and THAT was all they thought autism was. So, I was put to the same standards allistic kids were, WHICH MANY HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISTIC KIDS ARE, and it made everything ten times worse. I am NOT saying that what these parents are doing is normal - its very excessive, and can obviously end up in your kid being spoiled or malnourished. However, the way most parents do the 'forcing your kids to eat' thing can end up just being extremely damaging and I think there should be a more middle ground.
Letting your kid have and do whatever they want whenever they want is exactly how spoiled rich kids are brought up and they aren’t usually the best people
Sadly, there's enough older generation who either don't want to give up the power they hold, or, they don't want anyone but their family to wield the power have.
Don’t forget the poverty tax. I was in the infantry for almost a decade. Every time I get asked if I enjoyed my time in the Army I refer them to a meme that says, “When you join to serve your country and in return you get PTSD and arthritis.”
i babysat 3 toddlers who all had their own ipads. they had horrible anger issues and had a hard time focusing on anything if there wasn’t a screen involved. i used to dread nap time because they would fight me kicking and screaming if i took the ipad away.
I lost use of my right arm(which also was my dominant arm) at 19 from football. Life has been full of chronic nerve pain since. Sometimes the pain is unbearable.I still have to work on top of that. Life can always be worse for me, even. Stay grateful. My dream in life is to live like you do.
I was given unsupervised access to the internet as a kid and it absolutely has done damage to me.more so due to some of the content I viewed since I had no one bothering. I’m 19 now and thankfully I got into a great art college and hoping I can carve myself out a job doing something I can love even tho I curse at it.
As a millennial, I grew up playing outside most of the time. I was lucky to have examples of hard working parents. Now I am working 45+ hours a week, going to college full time (i decided to go back at the age of 31) and starting a business. I don't have a lot of free time, but I am working towards having a job that I love and it's all worth it. Also, commute to school (which i do twice a week) is 2.5 hours each way. It can be done, but I think that if i didn't grow up with hard working parents and little to no screen time daily, I wouldn't be where I am today.
I was one of those "do whatever you want" kids mostly because my parents had no clue how to be parents and they clearly didn't want to be, and I definitely hold it against them that I was raised that way. My therapist called it what it was, neglect.
I can understand a mom not having time to fix healthy food depending on their job/home situation. Any food for a kid is better than no food… but to post it to social media is crazy. It has to be either rage bait or sympathy bait.
honestly i needed to hear that part about anxiety and depression and how its basically impossible for people to talk abt it at all because of the selfishness ive been living in pain for 14 years now and im 21 im happy i got to hear that and people really do need to start listening more and stop feeding into those people i wake up every day from my heart beating out of my chest and unable to do a lot because of the pain i love you man this gave me a bit of a jump to try harder thank you
I used to complain a lot that I don’t have time for hobbies/hanging with friends. Then I accepted I had a doom scrolling problem haha. Fixed that and now I do hobbies,bjj and hanging with friends. One tip of advice is that if you want to hit the gym after work just head straight to the gym after work. Helped me out alot
i’ve watched for about a year now and my favorite thing i’ve gained from being an oompa subscriber is all the nutrition facts i’ve learnt overtime. you know a lot about food without making it sound like you know a lot about food and i like that
The fact that we don't know what this technology does to our brains, yet we’re giving it to kids, scares me. Today, children learn to sing Skibidi toilet before they even learn their ABCs...
And today they first see p**n at 9. Something that deeply troubles me, and they see not because they have been taught about it, or because society is getting more open about the birds & the bees, but because they stumble upon adult sites or are even recommended said sites by algorithms. I to this day don't know where this quote originated from but it has never stopped ringing true. "You cannot fight, what you do not know" Honestly I feel the parasitic transactional business practices that are becoming more and more common these days are a big part of the problem and one of the most damaging influences. I share your concerns, as should everyone else
I worked in a daycare where a mom once jokingly said "haha, dont judge me" as she brought in her 3 years old sons breakfast of 24 bakery donuts for the third day in a row... and when it wasn't that it was those mini donuts daily. And it was no surprise when he would just stare at us with dead fish eyes when you talked to him during circle time.
i've cried before and after work since i started in the workforce. ive loved my jobs and have felt accomplished but the crying is real.. (the past 10+ years)
4:20 Just a lil fact, You can actually SAMPLE the food/beverage you have, but only a sample. But just know once you drink / eat the chosen object, you have to buy it. You cannot consume the whole thing or else that would be stealing.
When i have a kid, no screens, we going amish style to raise that kid. Only well researched books and life lessons, try and pray the school classmates dont rot their brain and such.
gotta love when the fate of humanity is going to future kids who will laugh their heads off seeing some of the weirdest stuff imaginable. but then again, has gen z done much better?
people seem to forget that our silly sense of humour has been ongoing for over 100 years. we laugh at the exact same type of stuff, it's just packaged differently for each generation. absurdist humour is timeless
I am the same in regards to gifting. I love giving my friends things that I know they'll use and genuinely enjoy the whole process. I definitely don't mind receiving a gift but I never gift with the expectation that I'm getting one in return.
As gen Z who was raised with a tablet and neglected my own kid will have no devices until middleschool and their first phone won’t be a smart phone but a flip phone with only texting and calling capabilities. They will still have their privacy and will still be thoroughly educated on how to safely use the internet.
@@TheCrociKyleoh come on now. The Galaxy Z Flip 5 is basically just a flip phone. They run out of idea and dig out of the old idea bin every now and again. By the time we’re having kids old enough for phones, flip phones will probably be cheap, retro, and a fidget device all in one.
@@TheCrociKyle They sort of do. If you count the Samsung Fold as a recreation of sorts of the age old flip phone, but other than that I can't think of anything close to the original style, no.
You don't see people who do hard jobs complain about it because they often die doing it so I don't see how sacrificing you life for a job is somehow better than complaining about things in the job that lead to that outcome. I thought jobs were means for survival and not a tool for self-destruction.
I dont understand why we as a society always say things like "this is the problem with (insert child aged gen) generation. Its the parents. We cant blame the person because they aren't even adults yet. We need to reword these phrases to stop the kids from feeling guilty about how their peers act as a product of poor parenting.
These last 10 years have been a wild ride. We’re gonna get to a point where having a baby is gonna be like getting your drivers licenses. Something that really scares me is the lack of social awareness and the lack of the ability to be considerate.
what do you mean by that? its your natural urge as a living this to want to reproduce... Everyone should want to have a kid thats kinda how we got this far as a species
my little sister got a ipad around 6 years old, it was before tiktok and everything so she was never on those, but she's the most well adjusted person in our entire family, people just have to be more responsible with what they allow their kids to view.
Its the parents i have 2 nieces one is 5 the other is 3. They know how to count, the alphabet, nursery rhythms, little dances, and likes to scribble and draw. They play on devices too but they dont act like monsters!
This, the problem isn’t the devices or the children using them, it’s the adults who don’t monitor and ultimately neglect their children who are to blame.
Generation 1 affected by screen time, started on PC in grade 3, the longer term affects seem to be developing blue light sensitivity which means I can no longer keep my focus while looking at screens for long periods or in a dark environment. Once overstimulated by the blue light I get into a trance and cannot look away nor pay attention to what is on the screen. Only thing I can do is limit screen time to daylight hours and keep it short while wearing blue light filtering glasses. When I look at my phone in the dark I instantly forget why I looked in the first place and instantly tune out the world around me.
Crying before doing something is a typical ADHD response, having to force yourself to do things your brain doesn’t want to do is painful. I believe mobile devices and the algorithms, particularly short form video, is creating an epidemic of ADHD type symptoms due to “screen addiction”… You cry because your brain would rather stay glued to the phone and will do anything to try make you take the day off and stay at home with your phone for that easy dopamine AKA death scrolling
I’m with you Oompa when I was growing up my dads version of watching me was “I’ve got chores to do go hunt birds with your dog or go shoot bow or do something outside” and you know what I’m glad he did it made me who I am today
26:40 I worked at SpaceX for a year, and I did the same thing. Quit to chase a dream, my friend wound up f*cking me over. Now I'm fighting foreclosure! Wish me luck.
I’m student teaching right now in an elementary school and have been there for about 6 weeks now. My students that have behavioral plans and paras are the students that say they go home and sit on their iPad or watch tv all night until dinner and bed. They are willing to say straight up “no” and disrespect boundaries and rules. I could say it 100 times and I’d still have students that didn’t catch it.
I live in Greece, from since I was a baby and I remember having the option to eat/drink something inside the supermarket, even adults do it sometimes. Never heard someone get scolded about it. Everyone obviously keeps the wrapping with the barcode intact, so you pay for it on the way out as you would normally. Especially in the US where supermarkets are enormous, I would've imagined you'd see that often.
i work with kids. when theyre being upset/difficult. i explain why i need them to tell me whats wrong, make sure they're heard. since i work with groups i always without doubt ask both sides. make them listen to eachother, usually already fixes alot. what i also do is give them options that work in my favour, it gives them the feeling of control in the sitution which i think helps em calm down.
As someone who deals a lot with mental health, and have almost my whole life, what I dislike the most about the situation we are in today is that It feels like my diagnosis are being taken less serious because "all young people are depressed now days" I am lucky with the country I live in though with free healthcare and free therapy until you are 25
The anxiety I get when I think me and my cart are taking up too much space in the grocery aisle is already way too high. Setting up camp and feeding my kids? Id lose it with shame
My dad and his girlfriend are like this with my younger siblings, me and my older sister grew up eatting home cooked dinners and my siblings live off of fast/frozen food and drink multiple sodas a day, they are 2, 3 and 9... They live on phones and tablets .
First day working at Wendy’s I was pumped, determined, my first job working the eight hour closing shift. Front desk taking and bagging orders, only had a few hours training- It was graduation and the worst day my manager has seen in two years. And he’s the most chill toughest put together guy I know- he actually had to step away for half a second to gather himself at one point. I cried thinking this would be my reality, especially when the head manager accidentally scheduled me for every free day I had. After that though, everything really was a lot easier in comparison. Still not a stellar job but keeps me alive till I find a better one XD
Just so you know people with your job (specifically wendys and taco bell) feed my husband on his way home from work as a nurse, so in our eyes your job is super important and I'm genuinely grateful for it!
I was born in 05 so i’m gen z. My parents never allowed me to have social media until I turned 18 which I’m extremely thankful for. I suffer from mental health problems as is and growing up without the exposure of how toxic social media is has saved me and i’m glad i don’t rely on it like others my age do. Even now being able to get social media if i want to, i’ve chosen not to because i personally don’t find the need in it. I did have a phone growing up but only to call my parents when I got home from school because I walked and we got rid of our home phone.
My wife's sister is 34 and almost 400lbs. She can't breath well at night. She is going to pass away. It's sad but sadder is the fact she has five children and feeds them only fast food and garbage. They are all overweight at such a young age and they don't understand she's killing them too.
Bruh, I don’t understand how kids are functioning these days. I talked back to my mom and she threw a Comcast remote at me… couldn’t imagine what would happen if I just flat out screamed at her…
I think it is a combination of our parents essentially bullying us into having kids because, "I want grandkids" but not being there as a support system like their parents were for them.
your late grandmother sounds amazing ❤ i enjoyed hearing about your experiences (job talk) 38:38 tbh i don’t have a manual labor job, but i have chronic illness and am also destroying my body (probably a lot slower)
My youngest siblings are gen alpha and they are glued to screens while having tons of toys and I would've killed to have that many toys. I also noticed that they never had a comfort item like a stuffed animal or blanket that they're emotionally attached to
@@gjeraldh2989 well not everyone does, a lot of people in my family do and we are mostly all neurodivergent. I have 3 siblings in gen alpha and not one of them had or has a comfort item except their tablet and yes they are neurodivergent
This is genuinely interesting I’ve never heard of this I guess I’ll have to keep my eye out with my younger siblings and cousins to see if that’s true or not because it definitely runs in my family too
Being born in 2006, I was that kind of kid that actually asked my mom to go outside. As for comfort items, I got a giant Freddy plush back in 2017 for Christmas when I was in elementary school. Now I'm a Junior in high school, 17 years old and I still have that plush.
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As a parent of an infant and a 3 year old, it is a LOT of work to raise kids. There ARE embarrassing moments in grocery stores and restaurants and I’ve gotten my share of nasty looks from people when my kiddo is having a tough time. But you know what won’t help them become tolerable human beings? Giving them my phone to distract them through the store. They have to learn how to behave in public and social situations, and It’s my job to teach them, no matter how tired, distracted, or stressed I am.
Thank you. That's exactly how I feel. Giving a child a screen won't teach them how to behave like a proper human being, it's a distraction because the parent is too lazy to parent. I have a 1 month old and I could never just give her a screen when she's older.
Great points
bravo
I used to be scared of that aspect in life now I find as I get older I'm looking forward too every moment
We all respect you and think you are doing an amazing job!!
I think there was a misunderstanding with the girl complaining about a 9-5, she even says she likes her job in the video and that theres zero problems with the job its that she has to drive like 3 hours totals out of her day to to/from there. What this means is that travel eats all freetime away for basically nothing just 40% of your day gone (assuming you sleep 8 hours and work 8). Anyone dealing with something like this definitely has validity to complain especially when its not even related to the work itself. If anything this is a housing/apartment availability problem which everyone in US is dealing with not just someone complaining about work.
Yeah I think oompa was way off the mark with that one. Just because “that’s how it is and others have it worse” isn’t a valid excuse to keep getting exploited by jobs. Labor laws need a reform for real
@@somi110 exactly! but as he told himself,man had quite a journey of influences on him, so no wonder that he is not really the right guy on some topics like these
@@somi110 i like oompa but this whole video just kinda showed me how out of touch he really is. i would never feed my developing child fast food and garbaghe like that but lets be real you cannot go to the grocery store for a family of 4 and not be spending under 250$ a week, you could eat wendys every day 3 meals a day for probably about 150 to 200
@@Bigboisully sad excuse. problems like that coulda been seen before they decided to have 2 kids. and that wendys estimate is absolutely undoubtedly cap
@@njcknamesYou sound like someone who has no monetary responsibility towards anyone but yourself.
When my older sister was younger she was throwing a tantrum in the grocery store once and my mom got on the ground and started screaming just like her and it was so jarring to my sister that she stopped and never did it again
That’s actually some hilarious parenting much better than just letting it happen huh
She understood how much of an annoyance screaming is
a great example of gentle parenting. consequences that don’t involve violence 😂😅 i aspire to be that brave
Trauma. It works 😭
she either was embarrassed of your mom doing that, or she was embarrassed for herself after realizing how she looked to others.
With the girl crying she’s talking about how she hates having to drive 3 hours to the job, it’s not that she hates it. She says she loves the job. And I think it’s valid to be upset that she doesn’t get any time for things due to traveling to work taking up most of her time.
agreed!!! i work a job that is super easy to do from home, but my boss makes us drive 1-2 hours to come into work, so i waste the day which makes me upset too! i could be haveing a normal 9-5, but it ends up being more like 8-7 !
My dad works an hour away and has for a long time and even that commute is inconvenient I can’t imagine 3 hours 😭😭
Driving over an hr to any job is asinine. Take another couple bucks off that $12 bucks an hr for gas cost and then factor in the wear and tear on your vehicle. No job is worth traveling an hr for.
@@FoulMouthFishing666 where i live in California its known as a "commuter city", most people have to commute around an hour to work because they cant afford to live closer to places like SF or silicon valley.
@@noodlesofoodlesyo I live in KS where everything is 30-45mins away & long highways (Topeka bing 2 hrs away, KS City being 3hrs). It’ll be pretty dumb of me if I get a job 1.5 hrs away. Spending a lot on gas barely breaking even. Especially there are towns close that need workers too 🤦🏼 & you’d have money & not drive the entire time u get off of work… that’s just asinine. Mom used to have hr drive to work. She realized she was being dumb & creating much more work for herself & nothing to show. She transferred closer & drive 10min now. She can now save money
Rest in peace gen alpha...
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"Fr fr ong"
Humanity*
I hope it's just a phase for gen alpha* I meant gen alpha 😭😭
Gen alpha gonna blow your tiny mind.
"I wasn't bribed by my parents, I was blackmailed by my parents." Dude, same. 😂😢
ACCURATE
No there not
Wait nvm I'm just an idiot
@josephcross3746 I don't know if you accidentally commented on my comment accidentally or if you thought I meant something else, but I accidentally comment on the wrong comment sometimes. I think it might be because I just push the comment area and maybe it goes to a specific comment by itself? Anyone know? Lol I feel real dumb when I comment something and it has nothing to do with the comment it goes on. 😅
Yh I miss read it 😂😂
I feel like there's a mix between tough love and gentle parenting that works out well. Don't be too tough to where you make your kids cry or feel like they're in prison, but also don't let them walk all over you.
EXACTLY. All tough love, your kid will probably be pretty withdrawn from you, but if you're too gentle, they will have absolutely no experience for when people respond in angry or violent ways, essentially robbing them of a primal survival insitinct.
I saw the latter happen to my cousin. She has absolutely no sense of fear for anything but heights. Because she and her siblings were raised in a zero-conflict, no-sharp-edges household where all signs of danger were removed. When she was nine she was hospitalized for trying to pick up a copperhead.
You need a mix of both gentle parenting and diciplinary parenting. You want your kids to respond appropriately to whatever situation.
There is a version of gentle parenting (the “true” version) that is pretty much exactly what you’re talking about. Problem is, it’s easier to roll over than constantly explain stuff to kids and be patient and kind when they’re being, you know, KIDS, so people say they’re gentle parenting and instead just let the kids run wild.
That’s what gentle parenting is 🧍🏻
@@Lil_critter Not for everyone- I see a lot of parent's who call it gentle parenting to let their kid walk over them.
It’s unfortunate that so many people can’t grasp this concept. If you’re too unintelligent to not think parenting is binary (only gentle or only tough) then you’re too unintelligent to have kids.
I've been working for about 9 years now. Did 4 years of being a graveyard gas station clerk and then now 5 years of being a barista. The exponential loss of wanting to do the things I love because of the lack of energy is a lot. And sometimes that desire to be 'productive' and 'useful' will bleed into my hobbies, but i will hold onto the fact i am at least doing something for fun.
And then ill think back to one of my favorite teachers making us do nothing for a whole minute to teach us that we need to embrace that we don't need to do something every minute of every day. To take some time to do nothing before you lose the ability to....
Boredom is a great teacher.
I remember when I was a kid in the 80's & wanted my dad to buy me a toy, he told me we didnt have the money & I said but you still have checks in the checkbook. When we got home I was forced to sit down with him & listen as he explained all the bills & how he had to schedule them to match his paycheck. I tried to not ask for anything after that lesson.
What an awesome teaching moment. Something a lot of kids don't get.
In the 80s when my dad got a new union job I thought we was rich... when my dad was making 100 a week I thought that was great to... I never got anything but for Xmas or bday
Same i threw a quiet fit over getting desert after dinner one night after church with other church peeps i realized later my dad spent money we didn't really have to take me and him to eat with church friends after being invited and not wanting to look bad by canceling and he was able to get what he could.. I felt terrible and still do. If he had just explained it to me off the bat id never ask again. I was used to my mom getting anything ever and spending above her means but i didn't know at the time
I love how the parents record their children doing this and then saying that there’s a problem with this generation when they are the problem…
As an elder millennial, this is exactly what happened with us. Started with "participation trophys"
@mrtophat12 agreed. I'm 34 and luckily I grew up juuuuust before all that bs started
Parents complaining that their kids are glued to a screen all the time.
@@trashteamracing8262Right, like they didn't buy said screens and also have the authority to take away said screens 😂 You're literally their mom
"Theres a problem with this generation... of parents" lol
I have seen people who eat and/or drink while they’re shopping but they would take the container to the register and pay for whatever they ate or drank before they left. I have the feeling that a lot of the people who do this at Walmart aren’t paying for it afterwards.
I have found half eaten bags of grapes put back on bread shelf
it's called grazing. it's super common in very poor communities. has been for decades.
@@alma.blackhawk i know this i live in a 4 light town biggest thing we got is Walmart
@@alma.blackhawk it turns out our third world country is better maintained than your poor communities. Maybe its the culture of self-respect we have. Not surprising since we don't have the drug culture.
@@hentype dude! Other places being bad doesnt make your country better. Its called a third world country for a reason. Before you go bash America I am not from there
I work on a farm, my bosses oldest son (7) already knows what I need when welding and tries to help out by bringing me things. All of his 3 kids give me hope that humans can have a future. What they are missing in their daily life are Ipads, smartphones, junkfood and idiots. Must be coincidence.
It’s almost like when you have the luxury of spending time with your children, you actually get to parent them.
I work two retail jobs and the amount of entitlement and arrogance I see every day is mind boggling. Parents will let their kids destroy a store and then say "It's ok, someone who works here will clean this up, it's their job." It's so frustrating how much of their behavior people will excuse because they think retail workers are so much less than they are and "the customer is always right."💜
"The customer is always right...in matters of taste." Funny how that last bit gets left off.
@@dysstopic exactly… people never remember that and I don’t know why 🧐
I doubt it's because "the customer is always right." It's likely because they're undisciplined and selfish and have high time preference and don't see themselves as a part of a civilisation.
I don't have a job but I agree
This. I work in a private garden where we take admissions. There’s signs everywhere to not bring picnics in. The amount of litter we end up clearing up at the end of the day from people sneaking their food in is unbelievable. I realise people are worried about spending too much on a day out but we still have staff we need to pay as we have a cafe and they could go to a public park with their picnic.
I’ve stopped asking people not to bring them in bc of the amount of abuse we were getting from people with no support from the higher ups over it.
30:00 she was saying the work is fine, her point was that it takes forever to get to that job because living near it would be to expensive and not having time in the day for anything else. Which is a 100% reasonable complaint.
Crazy how many people missreperesent the video since she states all of this very clearly.
or invalidating her pain because "other people have it worse", bro unironically made a "well there are children starving in africa" argument
YES, SHE SHOULD BE FREE TO EXPRESS HER STRESS
JUST BECAUSE IT'S NORMAL TO HAVE A ROUGH TIME DOESN'T MEAN PEOPLE HAVE TO MAKE HER FEEL BAD FOR EXPRESSING HER STRESS
@@Real_KirboYES
She actually killed herself because of the criticism lol
@@kolelamont8728 stop spreading misinformation to be funny bro
I've been saying this for nearly 20 years "I fear for the future of humanity." This just reinforces my fears.
you some misguided children and bad parenting and you’re terrified? the internet has created an even bigger magnifying glass than the press; a centuries old business that has been profiting off fear and sowing propaganda since at least the version we know it today has been formed. you choose to continue listening to their madness and foolishness and let them use the internet as they have newspapers instead of using it as an opportunity to use it for yourself and right the sins committed by those before you as they have refused to fix their mistakes and instead to burden us with the task. yet you refuse to do even that as you let this species spiral into null. though it isn’t fair or just, you must perceiver through because now we have the technology and capability to finally stop ourselves from plummeting and we can finally know we have brought a bright future to the generations to come after.
Im a gen z, and its so sad to see my baby brother get handed an ipad at the age of 3, in 2013 i did not even know what an ipad was. now when i try talking to him he just sits there and does nothing, he does not even say anything back. its sad to see the downfall of his generation
Millennial here, we feel the same about you guys. 🤣
@@shewanttheducky495 Silent generation here, millennials are all polish
@@shewanttheducky495y’all are the parents who raised this generation that way 🤷♀️ you reap what you sow I guess
@@shewanttheducky495😂
@@shewanttheducky495that’s crazy because you’re objectively the worst generation, 😂 you made us knowingly with the mistakes your parents made w you.
When working 40+hrs a week until your basically 80 to retire, if you even are in a position to retire. Only to have nothing to leave the people you care about. Yeah everything just feels like filler until the day you die. And that's the lucky people.
This is exactly why its more brutal for young people rn. Back in the day you could at least know there was a retirement down the line or a vacation later in the year. Im a chemist rn and I dont even make enough to ever retire.
That's where the crying comes from I think. It's not that it's difficult, it's the hopelessness.
Retirement is for the upper class otherwise you work and pay taxes until you die that's my plan anyway
40hrs a week here as an assistant manager. Can't even afford to move out. My savings never stay over 1k - currently my savings sit at £500. My generation (I'm generalising here) don't even have 'rainy day funds', we don't have proper savings. Trying to save enough for deposits is near impossible. My manager who is in her 50s is also in the same boat - her savings never go higher than 1k. In the UK, there's 11 million estimated people with less than 1k in savings. It does all feel hopeless..
@@himareihard agree 😭
The term ‘other people have it worse’ is such a trip because while I agree it’s true we should be thankful for what we have , at the same time it feels like that phrase invalidates the stuff we do struggle with
ive seen a girl mace a teacher for taking her phone in class, kids now consider it as important as a bodypart they treat it like apart of themselves its crazy
That video was great.
I always like to put myself in that situation as an adult now and think about how stressed that would make me having my phone taken from me bc they are so important now a days! I didn’t see the video of that girl but obvi what she did wasn’t okay.. but I’m just fascinated by human psychology though and how I’d feel in that situation
MACE?! WHAT>!?!
@@pineapplesauce6509 pepper spray, not the handheld large metal beating object
@@Korvaxisthanks for specifying. In America, you never know.
iPad babies, the bane of my existence. My wife and I are expecting our first soon and this video is basically antithetical to how we will raise our kid. Nothing is worse than a spoiled child
You can't let them have everything they want, even if you can give it to them. It will teach them so many bad lessons.
Idk man, have you ever stubbed your toe? I hear cancer aint fun either
Yeah well, giving them excessive screen time is bad, but be careful not to go to the other extreme otherwise you'll be the bane of your child's existence instead. I promise you're not gonna be coming out a winner if you do that unless you're so lucky you have a child capable of raising themselves, in which case it doesn't matter what you do, but i don't think you want to go there. If you're gonna take some screen time away, you should replace it with something else. Like some actual time together, if you care to be a decent parent at all. Lack of involvement and overinvolvement will both traumatize a kid, chaos and oppressive order and authority will both destroy a family. Choose wisely because there isn't an undo button.
@@Dice-Z oh for sure. The whole finding a balance can be the hard part. I'm definitely not against screen time, I grew up playing video games with my brothers. I just also aim to encourage time away from screens. Moderation in all things after all. :)
They are so entitled and bratty. My ex had a lil bro who got and iPad for his 5th bday. He was so bratty
It's concerning seeing how violent these kids are getting well they're being spoiled. It feels like an abusive household waiting to happen and a lot of these parents don't realize their raising possible abusers :(
I’m a lead custodian in a middle school and can 100% say these kids are INSANELY violent, entitled, rude to other students/staff, they are destructive and constantly vandalizing and destroying the property in sometimes unfixable ways. And parents never hold them accountable “My kid would never do that. I don’t believe you.” It’s scary. They have no structure or consequences.
I know a child who’s parents have a rule where they never tell her no. It’s the most disgusting thing ever
Kids who don't learn about "no" are adults who refuse to accept "no" and end up in jail for it
@@BarbieDreamDungeonfacts
I feel so bad for the School’s faculty that have to deal with that child
Ah, yes, setting no limits to a child while they haven't built their moral compass, sense of right and wrong and have limited empathy. That will go well...
My niece and nephew are raised like that because my brother and SIL say that "negative responses like no breeds insecurities" and both kids are little demons.
I hate doing this… but from the time I was 18 until 2 years ago at 28 I worked as a “selector” in a warehouse. You “drove” this motorized pallet jack and picked cases out of warehouse slots to build these pallets to be shipped to stores. Each case was 40-100 lbs, and you had to hit a calculated rate for the cases you selected that ended up being around 220/hr.
Now, the base pay at 100% was $24/hr, and for every 1% over that you maintained you got another 10¢ an hour, capped off at 135%. If you went above that you could choose to get paid by the case. It was 7¢ a case for the first 10,000 in a week, and once you went over that it would jump to 15¢ a case. So there was guys making $5000 a week sometimes, since it was a 60 hour week. Then they’d send you across the country and pay for everything while you were gone (hotel, rental, food) and you’d make a flat 13 week average of your highest 13 weeks… so there was money to be made if you literally broke yourself.
I’m now 30. I’ve had 2 hernia surgeries, and I need a spinal fusion. I’m sure my replacement’s replacement is already gone.
That’s so terrible… I hate hearing about company’s making people literally risk their future and wellbeing with the promise of money
math adds up to $83 an hour for top worker. Which is true of skilled labor. Not that uncommon.
My bf, his son stays with his mom most of the time, we have him every other weekend. He is ADDICTED TO SCREENS...ANY SCREEN. It is so sad. We try to limit what he can do on a screen but we catch him face glued to the Alexa as a substitute to a tablet, or if we walk in a store or restaurant that has a self check out screen kiosk, electronic advertisement, anything with a screen he instantly runs over and is so fixated on it, we have to pull him away multiple times.....And the mom says she doesn't like him using screens...mhmmmm
Might be a developmental issue
Not your problem.
Could be autism, and screens are his obsession lol
I’m gen z and when I was a kid I would find a cool stick or a box and be occupied for a few days then I got bored and started throwing rocks at trees or something
I used to take old boxes, then draw on them to make characters out of them to play with
Yeah, I used to find sticks, and make small weapons out of them
Yeah I'm an older Genz that borders millennial and I feel like I'm part of a dying experience of going to the local creek and playing with sticks and rocks
You gotta love imagining a stick was a sword or gun best times of childhood
I did that earlier today
i do genuinely worry for the kids growing up now, so many kids being left in daycare away from their parents all day, not going outside, having less and less real friends, its honestly scary to think how hard its gonna be for them when they reach adulthood and have no clue what theyre doing
I agree. We need to shift back to the nuclear family with one parent working and one parent home. At least until the kids are school age. But we’re trying so far away from normalcy, it’s scary.
yeah its a shame parents today prefer to both work 8+ hours a day than sit at home all day enjoying life with their kids. It almost seems like they're forced into that situation by living in an economy that costs so much that it requires 2+ incomes.
I have always hated the "Others have it way worse" like you can't open up about what's bothering you unless it's literally the worst thing to exist.
It's like "oh you think you have it bad? well some people work 14 hour days 8 days a week so stop complaining"
There’s starving children in Africa. They don’t even get to eat Oompa candy!
I got laid off recently and I’ve been the most stress free I’ve been in a while. I dread having to go back. Trying to figure out what hobby I can make into a career because that seems to be the only way out. Will have to find something tolerable in the mean time
as someone whos a gen z person who grew up with phones and ipads, i am turning 18 this year in november and its stressing me out and very stressful but i am going to try my best
You got this!! I don't have all the answers. Nor do I know the key to figuring it all out. But I do know that putting too much pressure on yourself to get it all figured out, and figured out correctly, will do more damage,(mentally and emotionally), then excepting the fact that you will make mistakes and wrong decisions along the way. Understanding and accepting that no one has all the answers takes a lot of that anxiety away. But you must believe in yourself. Believe that no matter what happens you'll figure it out. Meditation helps the mind to focus and see the big picture more clearly. I wish you all the success this world has to offer in whatever you decide to do. Just believe in you. And if it helps, I believe in you. Much peace and love to you and yours from this random old lady.✌️
@@michellemcmahon3344 this message comforted me thank you, i will do my best
34:31 personally, at my last job, i used to cry before and after every shift. I worked 8+ hour shifts 6 days a week in a very busy place, and was often scheduled alone due to being understaffed. I think some people just cry when they’re overwhelmed and others are able to just compartmentalize
Some people, like me and my mother, cry for every extreme emotion. Sad, stressed, angry, etc., any overwhelming feeling, all of it will have us in tears when we can't cope with it anymore. oddly enough, I personally have never really cried from overwhelmingly positive emotions. but yes, feeling trapped in a job you don't like or in a situation that feels like a never ending cycle of misery, I'd say a quick cry session before work is valid lol
4:25 The fact I took a whole year of my life to research how to keep little SHRIMP, but this mother couldn't take five minutes to research the dietary requirements for a CHILD is just ... depressing to me. :/
Also shrimp are some of the coolest pets you can own. I adore them. I have a whole 30 gallon tank full of them and snails. It's hard work, but it's worth it cause they are all kinds of cool colors. Yes, I am advertising shrimp, but DO research first. Weeeeeeee.
What shrimp have you been keeping? I’ve been wanting to get some neocardinias and set up a community, but none of the stores near me stock any…
I love shrimp. I've kept neocaridina shrimp and amono shrimp when I had a fish tank and it was my favorite thing to watch them interact and pick up the little algae wafers like a little burger patty and run away with them and watch them clean the moss ball. Shrimp are so cool and they do come in many different colors but you're right they are fragile and water parameters have to be on point.
If I get into fish keeping again one day I would most definitely have a tank of cherry or amano shrimp with a fully dirted live planted tank with some small colorful tetras, possibly some corydoras because I love them as well.
Shimp
So is it true that a shrimp can fry rice?
Same I got a hamster earlier this year and let me tell you I researched every aspect of owning one of those critters and it was so worth it. I’m glad I’m able to give my hamster the life she deserves. Parents need to treat human babies with the same love and respect
I’m a child therapist, and in my professional opinion, I agree…they’re fked. The kids who seem to be doing the best do a lot of activities and have limited screen time. Extremely limited for the little ones. Not to make excuses for them but not all parents have the time to be monitoring their kids all the time because of financial reasons. So I think we should think of this as a societal issue. We need free childcare for those who need it.
Some of my friends and I are postponing having kids or not having them at all because it’s a hard time to have kids. I don’t think it would be fair to the kid if I had one right now.
the little girl screaming for her mom to clean her room just gave me flashbacks to all the times I got in trouble for my messy room and had to clean it up myself
Yknow? My parents always told me I have a 5 day time limit to get it clean or theyll throw anything on my floor away. Gave me more time then needed to get it done, and if I didnt, well. Everything got thrown away. I leanred to keep my room clean. Also learned its nice to be able to have open space.
@@leechion2933you just gave me flashbacks to my mom coming into my room with a garbage bag 😭
saying je ne sais quoi and then saying “i don’t know what that means” is so funny to me 😭 it literally means i don’t know what
Yeah. That was the joke….
pardon my french but it would better translate to : something I don't know
@tristambre632
Hello, french here. It also translates to the same. It just means "I don't know what" or anything synonimous
@@tristambre632it's definitely "I dont know what" but I could see translation varying based on where in the world you learned your French cause that happens. "Officialy" it means I don't know what.
@@shutityoudumb synonymous*
Had a work panic attack the other day.. fell over shaking walking into the metal detectors right at the time clocks in front of all of managers and supervisors. Had to go to HR, they thought i was under the influence and it all just threw me into another spiral. I still have my job so thats cool. Hearing you gave the boy inpiration to keep pursuing my dreams, amongst the inevitble work, exhaustion, and struggle.
what's a work panic?
It's so over for Gen Alpha 💀
ANIME
It's been over.
I hope it's just a phase 😭🙏 or gen alpha* is COOKED
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I grew up in the rural south in the 1990-2000s. So many people I knew ate a very similar diet that the first mom is showing. I really don’t think this is a new phenomenon. It’s just that people show it on social media now.
Word that makes it healthy and acceptable 👌
@@ILoveLamp-sj4bx Where did I say it was healthy and acceptable? Acknowledging that it is likely a generational problem is helpful in understanding and trying to correct. I work in healthcare and talk to patients every day about healthier lifestyle choices.
@@ILoveLamp-sj4bx word, you read this insight someone gave on a subject and took it as an opinion to fit your narritive. 👌🤡
@@ILoveLamp-sj4bx he aint defending the mom
@@USWNTfan101 I think he means that exposing it on social media makes it acceptable for social media drones.
I’ve come across a family eating the chicken from the deli in the non-grocery area. And they were all adults and were just blocking up the whole area and didn’t seem to care. No one was recording.
"Other people have it way worse" is one of my least favorite phrases 🙃
Same
One of my favorites 😄
Makes as much sense as, “Why are you so happy, other people have it *way* better than you“
@@SarahNovayour happy other people have it because than you BECAUSE people have it worse than you would you rather you both be miserable, just be happy that someone is happy because it’s better than everyone being miserable and it’s impossible for everyone to be happy
Didn’t ask
Most stores including Walmart do not care about drinking or consuming food in their store as long as they eventually pay for it, I would spend 2 hours at Walmart and drink a vitamin water while I was shopping but I would scan the empty bottle when I got to the self check out and still pay for it
There was only ever one time I remember stealing a drink doing that. I downed a dr pepper and threw it out without paying for it. And ended up getting away with it.
I watched a CPS hearing where this lady (at a supervised visit) was trying to feed her kid. She pretended to feed a Mickey Mouse doll and then punched him in the face when he didn’t eat the food, bc she saw it on tiktok. Idk if she ever got her kid back but I tell ya what the judge was NOT impressed.
I feel that it is valid to feel like some people feel about working a 9-5. In this current economy, my generation cannot EVER buy a house to live in. I have seen videos of people on Twitter living in their cars whilst having a full time job because they cannot afford the rent. Saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in college loans, they feel that it is hopeless. And in that sense, it kind of is. It is truly sad to witness.
@@njcknamesYou act like it's any better outside of your country's bubble lol. I'm gonna guess you're American from your comments, but no. It's no better most anywhere else. In fact, in some places like say, Japan, it's *worse.*
@@ryudhal I didn’t say it was better I’m deadass saying it’s worse and she could have it worse. U just took it out of context. I’m guessing ur from the uk the way ur negative ab Americans even tho u prolly never been here
@@njcknamesno one said or assumed life would be easy. We just didn't think it would be completely hopeless. Telling young people to take accountability for listening to what the older generation said to do (take out loans to go to college, work hard) doesn't make sense. They listened to those they thought knew better when they had no life experience.
People are willing to work hard, IF it leads to something worthwhile and meaningful. It doesnt anymore. Now you just work until death with barely anything to make it worth it
@@BabeDollB Ironically i think this kid sees life too optimistically. Not the other way around like they're claiming. They sound exactly like the strawmen they're trying to criticise. They think life will just work out as long as you work.
@@BabeDollB I agree w everything but the start. As a kid everyone’s taught life like it’s simple especially thru media. It was never simple. Come as u are. Show it as it is. Exactly why I encourage people to read the Bible even if they aren’t believers
The worst customers [I think] that I encounter in retail are the parents that just let their kids do whatever in the store. I always say they need to pay us for babysitting, because I routinely have to stop kids from doing dangerous/damaging things.
The amount of times I've nearly run kids over with store vehicles because they just run around corners, and the parent just yells to them "hey, I told you to stop running," and then precedes to ignore them again omfg. I had kids start playing tag in front of me while I was pushing a heavy vehicle that would have probably broken their toes if I didn't stop in time (bc I can't stop heavy vehicles immediately) and the mom just turned around and continued shopping without saying anything. They continued to block me and play tag until she walked off.
Exactly, and when you don't stop them and something happens, instead of considering that they're being bad parents, they blame you for their problems and refuse to acknowledge their own.
22:35 I mean Im only 15 but when I was young I had a lot of undiagnosed issues (specifically AuDHD) that made me not be able to eat certain foods without genuinely crying because of the texture (I had and have terrible sensory issues) and I was forced by my stepdad to eat foods I didn't like in the typical yelling, 'you get up when your done' type of way, and it never really worked for me. It made me resentful of my mom and step dad, didn't enlarge my pallet at all, and eventually made me develop anorexia because of, obviously, body image issues, but also because eating anything brought back the memories of being forced to eat and made me feel ill.
People will say 'Oh, well it's obviously an exception because you have a developmental disability!!' But the whole thing is I was UNDIAGNOSED. My family didn't suspect it at all because I had a severely autistic cousin who was low functioning and THAT was all they thought autism was. So, I was put to the same standards allistic kids were, WHICH MANY HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISTIC KIDS ARE, and it made everything ten times worse.
I am NOT saying that what these parents are doing is normal - its very excessive, and can obviously end up in your kid being spoiled or malnourished. However, the way most parents do the 'forcing your kids to eat' thing can end up just being extremely damaging and I think there should be a more middle ground.
Letting your kid have and do whatever they want whenever they want is exactly how spoiled rich kids are brought up and they aren’t usually the best people
Yep they end up Entitled brats that are insufferable to be around
Sadly, there's enough older generation who either don't want to give up the power they hold, or, they don't want anyone but their family to wield the power have.
Literally
What are you even talking about?
That's a separate issue, your generation is trash and you are getting replaced by more functional migrants.
@@dylan4125society it seems. I'm not seeing anything new.
Poor victim it's definitely not your fault mommy won't get a sipping cup for you 😢
Don’t forget the poverty tax. I was in the infantry for almost a decade. Every time I get asked if I enjoyed my time in the Army I refer them to a meme that says, “When you join to serve your country and in return you get PTSD and arthritis.”
I work in a tech repair shop and have been judging iPad parents for almost ten years now.
i babysat 3 toddlers who all had their own ipads. they had horrible anger issues and had a hard time focusing on anything if there wasn’t a screen involved. i used to dread nap time because they would fight me kicking and screaming if i took the ipad away.
I lost use of my right arm(which also was my dominant arm) at 19 from football. Life has been full of chronic nerve pain since. Sometimes the pain is unbearable.I still have to work on top of that. Life can always be worse for me, even. Stay grateful. My dream in life is to live like you do.
Fight on!
I was given unsupervised access to the internet as a kid and it absolutely has done damage to me.more so due to some of the content I viewed since I had no one bothering. I’m 19 now and thankfully I got into a great art college and hoping I can carve myself out a job doing something I can love even tho I curse at it.
As a millennial, I grew up playing outside most of the time. I was lucky to have examples of hard working parents. Now I am working 45+ hours a week, going to college full time (i decided to go back at the age of 31) and starting a business.
I don't have a lot of free time, but I am working towards having a job that I love and it's all worth it. Also, commute to school (which i do twice a week) is 2.5 hours each way. It can be done, but I think that if i didn't grow up with hard working parents and little to no screen time daily, I wouldn't be where I am today.
My kid not getting an iPad or phone until they’re at least 10
I was one of those "do whatever you want" kids mostly because my parents had no clue how to be parents and they clearly didn't want to be, and I definitely hold it against them that I was raised that way. My therapist called it what it was, neglect.
I can understand a mom not having time to fix healthy food depending on their job/home situation. Any food for a kid is better than no food… but to post it to social media is crazy. It has to be either rage bait or sympathy bait.
honestly i needed to hear that part about anxiety and depression and how its basically impossible for people to talk abt it at all because of the selfishness ive been living in pain for 14 years now and im 21 im happy i got to hear that and people really do need to start listening more and stop feeding into those people i wake up every day from my heart beating out of my chest and unable to do a lot because of the pain i love you man this gave me a bit of a jump to try harder thank you
I used to complain a lot that I don’t have time for hobbies/hanging with friends.
Then I accepted I had a doom scrolling problem haha. Fixed that and now I do hobbies,bjj and hanging with friends.
One tip of advice is that if you want to hit the gym after work just head straight to the gym after work. Helped me out alot
i’ve watched for about a year now and my favorite thing i’ve gained from being an oompa subscriber is all the nutrition facts i’ve learnt overtime. you know a lot about food without making it sound like you know a lot about food and i like that
Thanks oompaville for the ricer car joke, means a lot from the car community
The fact that we don't know what this technology does to our brains, yet we’re giving it to kids, scares me. Today, children learn to sing Skibidi toilet before they even learn their ABCs...
And today they first see p**n at 9. Something that deeply troubles me, and they see not because they have been taught about it, or because society is getting more open about the birds & the bees, but because they stumble upon adult sites or are even recommended said sites by algorithms.
I to this day don't know where this quote originated from but it has never stopped ringing true.
"You cannot fight, what you do not know"
Honestly I feel the parasitic transactional business practices that are becoming more and more common these days are a big part of the problem and one of the most damaging influences.
I share your concerns, as should everyone else
It’s genuinely sad if you think about it.
I worked in a daycare where a mom once jokingly said "haha, dont judge me" as she brought in her 3 years old sons breakfast of 24 bakery donuts for the third day in a row... and when it wasn't that it was those mini donuts daily. And it was no surprise when he would just stare at us with dead fish eyes when you talked to him during circle time.
This made me sad bro.
i've cried before and after work since i started in the workforce. ive loved my jobs and have felt accomplished but the crying is real.. (the past 10+ years)
I have to take the train to work at 7:30 and get home at 6. It’s terrible especially having to pay $350 a month on a train pass.
4:20 Just a lil fact, You can actually SAMPLE the food/beverage you have, but only a sample. But just know once you drink / eat the chosen object, you have to buy it. You cannot consume the whole thing or else that would be stealing.
When i have a kid, no screens, we going amish style to raise that kid. Only well researched books and life lessons, try and pray the school classmates dont rot their brain and such.
Sorry to burst your bubble but you should make sure they know about the dangers of the internet
gotta love when the fate of humanity is going to future kids who will laugh their heads off seeing some of the weirdest stuff imaginable. but then again, has gen z done much better?
i laugh at youtube poops still, i am no better than a skibidi toilet watcher's
skibidi type slaps
people seem to forget that our silly sense of humour has been ongoing for over 100 years. we laugh at the exact same type of stuff, it's just packaged differently for each generation. absurdist humour is timeless
Gen Z are awesome, if you know them personally. They're gonna save us all.
Hey don't do us like that, we got way better humor than them 😭
I am the same in regards to gifting. I love giving my friends things that I know they'll use and genuinely enjoy the whole process. I definitely don't mind receiving a gift but I never gift with the expectation that I'm getting one in return.
As gen Z who was raised with a tablet and neglected my own kid will have no devices until middleschool and their first phone won’t be a smart phone but a flip phone with only texting and calling capabilities. They will still have their privacy and will still be thoroughly educated on how to safely use the internet.
@@TheCrociKylethere will always be flip phones, you have access to everything on the internet.
@@TheCrociKyle they do, some service carriers unironically offer flip phones at fairly cheap prices (at least here in Bulgaria they do)
@@TheCrociKyleoh come on now. The Galaxy Z Flip 5 is basically just a flip phone. They run out of idea and dig out of the old idea bin every now and again. By the time we’re having kids old enough for phones, flip phones will probably be cheap, retro, and a fidget device all in one.
I feel as if u had a child that would be abit overboard but I can for sure understand the sentiment
@@TheCrociKyle They sort of do. If you count the Samsung Fold as a recreation of sorts of the age old flip phone, but other than that I can't think of anything close to the original style, no.
You don't see people who do hard jobs complain about it because they often die doing it
so I don't see how sacrificing you life for a job is somehow better than complaining about things in the job that lead to that outcome. I thought jobs were means for survival and not a tool for self-destruction.
YES, I AGREE
I dont understand why we as a society always say things like "this is the problem with (insert child aged gen) generation. Its the parents. We cant blame the person because they aren't even adults yet. We need to reword these phrases to stop the kids from feeling guilty about how their peers act as a product of poor parenting.
My son is one and we walk outside to get eggs from our chicken coop every morning to make breakfast, it’s his favorite part of the day
These last 10 years have been a wild ride. We’re gonna get to a point where having a baby is gonna be like getting your drivers licenses.
Something that really scares me is the lack of social awareness and the lack of the ability to be considerate.
Can you elaborate? I kinda get it, but also don't.
Not really, migrants are always available to replace the non-functional natives.
@@Snorlaxsnaxx people are just gonna start acting like they’re in a call of duty voice chat at all times
what do you mean by that? its your natural urge as a living this to want to reproduce... Everyone should want to have a kid thats kinda how we got this far as a species
@@Bigboisully There are so many incorrect points here
my little sister got a ipad around 6 years old, it was before tiktok and everything so she was never on those, but she's the most well adjusted person in our entire family, people just have to be more responsible with what they allow their kids to view.
Its the parents i have 2 nieces one is 5 the other is 3. They know how to count, the alphabet, nursery rhythms, little dances, and likes to scribble and draw. They play on devices too but they dont act like monsters!
This, the problem isn’t the devices or the children using them, it’s the adults who don’t monitor and ultimately neglect their children who are to blame.
@@joshuaconnall4237 I'm glad we agree
Generation 1 affected by screen time, started on PC in grade 3, the longer term affects seem to be developing blue light sensitivity which means I can no longer keep my focus while looking at screens for long periods or in a dark environment. Once overstimulated by the blue light I get into a trance and cannot look away nor pay attention to what is on the screen.
Only thing I can do is limit screen time to daylight hours and keep it short while wearing blue light filtering glasses.
When I look at my phone in the dark I instantly forget why I looked in the first place and instantly tune out the world around me.
Crying before doing something is a typical ADHD response, having to force yourself to do things your brain doesn’t want to do is painful. I believe mobile devices and the algorithms, particularly short form video, is creating an epidemic of ADHD type symptoms due to “screen addiction”…
You cry because your brain would rather stay glued to the phone and will do anything to try make you take the day off and stay at home with your phone for that easy dopamine AKA death scrolling
I’m with you Oompa when I was growing up my dads version of watching me was “I’ve got chores to do go hunt birds with your dog or go shoot bow or do something outside” and you know what I’m glad he did it made me who I am today
"Nanny 911" just makes me think of Southpark and Cartman.
Both me and my brother are bisexual, statistically that’s really unlikely in one household… I blame my parents
I blame Satan.
26:40 I worked at SpaceX for a year, and I did the same thing. Quit to chase a dream, my friend wound up f*cking me over. Now I'm fighting foreclosure! Wish me luck.
I get the whole hotpot joke on white dads, but beans, tomatoes, meat, and cheese, is cheaper, and healthier than a wendys burger.
24:25 shipping your kid off to welding school is less humane than bamboo torture. Don’t be a welder kids
Definitely one of my favorite oompaville thumbnails💀
I’m student teaching right now in an elementary school and have been there for about 6 weeks now. My students that have behavioral plans and paras are the students that say they go home and sit on their iPad or watch tv all night until dinner and bed. They are willing to say straight up “no” and disrespect boundaries and rules. I could say it 100 times and I’d still have students that didn’t catch it.
I live in Greece, from since I was a baby and I remember having the option to eat/drink something inside the supermarket, even adults do it sometimes. Never heard someone get scolded about it. Everyone obviously keeps the wrapping with the barcode intact, so you pay for it on the way out as you would normally. Especially in the US where supermarkets are enormous, I would've imagined you'd see that often.
i work with kids. when theyre being upset/difficult. i explain why i need them to tell me whats wrong, make sure they're heard. since i work with groups i always without doubt ask both sides. make them listen to eachother, usually already fixes alot. what i also do is give them options that work in my favour, it gives them the feeling of control in the sitution which i think helps em calm down.
As someone who deals a lot with mental health, and have almost my whole life, what I dislike the most about the situation we are in today is that It feels like my diagnosis are being taken less serious because "all young people are depressed now days" I am lucky with the country I live in though with free healthcare and free therapy until you are 25
The anxiety I get when I think me and my cart are taking up too much space in the grocery aisle is already way too high. Setting up camp and feeding my kids? Id lose it with shame
"Je ne sais quoi, I don't know what that means." EXACTLY! lol
Made me do a little cackle
My dad and his girlfriend are like this with my younger siblings, me and my older sister grew up eatting home cooked dinners and my siblings live off of fast/frozen food and drink multiple sodas a day, they are 2, 3 and 9... They live on phones and tablets .
First day working at Wendy’s I was pumped, determined, my first job working the eight hour closing shift. Front desk taking and bagging orders, only had a few hours training-
It was graduation and the worst day my manager has seen in two years. And he’s the most chill toughest put together guy I know- he actually had to step away for half a second to gather himself at one point. I cried thinking this would be my reality, especially when the head manager accidentally scheduled me for every free day I had.
After that though, everything really was a lot easier in comparison. Still not a stellar job but keeps me alive till I find a better one XD
Just so you know people with your job (specifically wendys and taco bell) feed my husband on his way home from work as a nurse, so in our eyes your job is super important and I'm genuinely grateful for it!
I was born in 05 so i’m gen z. My parents never allowed me to have social media until I turned 18 which I’m extremely thankful for. I suffer from mental health problems as is and growing up without the exposure of how toxic social media is has saved me and i’m glad i don’t rely on it like others my age do. Even now being able to get social media if i want to, i’ve chosen not to because i personally don’t find the need in it. I did have a phone growing up but only to call my parents when I got home from school because I walked and we got rid of our home phone.
My wife's sister is 34 and almost 400lbs. She can't breath well at night. She is going to pass away. It's sad but sadder is the fact she has five children and feeds them only fast food and garbage. They are all overweight at such a young age and they don't understand she's killing them too.
Bruh, I don’t understand how kids are functioning these days. I talked back to my mom and she threw a Comcast remote at me… couldn’t imagine what would happen if I just flat out screamed at her…
Spoiler: we have a generation of parents spoiling their kids EXACLY because their own parents abused them.
I too reminisce child abuse.
The fact you think that’s normal scares me
@@spiderlily723 VERY true. Problem is that now their kids are gonna abuse them, too lol
@@kiyokumabear...a child cannot abuse a parent.
I think it is a combination of our parents essentially bullying us into having kids because, "I want grandkids" but not being there as a support system like their parents were for them.
You can definitely make sure your kid feels heard and their feelings validated without letting them get everything they want
your late grandmother sounds amazing ❤
i enjoyed hearing about your experiences (job talk)
38:38 tbh i don’t have a manual labor job, but i have chronic illness and am also destroying my body (probably a lot slower)
My youngest siblings are gen alpha and they are glued to screens while having tons of toys and I would've killed to have that many toys. I also noticed that they never had a comfort item like a stuffed animal or blanket that they're emotionally attached to
their comfort item is probably their device tbh
Never had a comfort item and i was born before internet stuff.
@@gjeraldh2989 well not everyone does, a lot of people in my family do and we are mostly all neurodivergent. I have 3 siblings in gen alpha and not one of them had or has a comfort item except their tablet and yes they are neurodivergent
This is genuinely interesting I’ve never heard of this I guess I’ll have to keep my eye out with my younger siblings and cousins to see if that’s true or not because it definitely runs in my family too
Being born in 2006, I was that kind of kid that actually asked my mom to go outside.
As for comfort items, I got a giant Freddy plush back in 2017 for Christmas when I was in elementary school. Now I'm a Junior in high school, 17 years old and I still have that plush.
this video hit so close to home its actually sad especially 34:47 😭😭