@yinyangphoenix no. We bury it instead of wasting time dealing with it. You must have been born Dec 31st. The millennials are the ones that embraced therapy.
@@olaff4223 Ah. Unconquerable youth. Bury it? It’s been done before. Millennials embrace nothing. Too lazy to care even about mistakes. When you bury, indubitably raise its ugly Gorgon snake head and come roost in your mind later in life. You, of course will not believe anything I have written. But my advice is very useful. Reminds me of the dirge ‘when you only got a 100 years to live’. I mean it’s a line from the song. I’m 62 but I’ll be around when you hit the inevitable mid life crisis. Though these days that seems to be at 30. ‘30’s almost got me and am so over lonesome’. Ha Ha Ha. Carry on young mind, expand. Self awareness, whew. Introspection, ay ay ay. A bevy of good values follows: mindfulness, mildness, meekness, joy, love, peace, Oneness!
1972 kid but even better raised by 1920’s parents. NO EXCUSES OVER HERE!! Get up, make the bed, wash up, eat, go to Church, go to school, do your homework, wash the dishes, clean the house, mow the lawn, rake the leaves up, shovel the driveway, do your laundry. What else? Whatever Mom and dad said, be happy you have a roof over your head and parents who love and take care of you. No, I did not get paid until I went out to get an actual J O B 😂. You didn’t get paid for helping to take care of your own home. Raised my kids the same way now they are independent, have their own homes and send me on vacation’s because they love me😊.
Might I add. Played outside, home before the street lights came on, drank out out of the garden hose, ate dirt, built forts, played in the woods, re-enacted Saturday Kung Fu movies, built bike ramps, played board games, got beat up, returned the favor and made friends for Life!
As a Gen X person..I have to say.. We thought racism was fixed with our generation.. We shared music, Jobs, Goals and Politics.. We Cared together.. Live Aid, Farm Aid, We are the World and everything else.. Amnesty International got funded and People were better.. But we let weak people get elected and we GIFTED a comfortable existence on our children.. and that created the weakness we see today.
hell, i figured that we (boomers) had it all figured out as well. when i went through marine basic in the 70's we had every color in the spectrum. both in recruits and leadership because 2 of our di's were a different color. i do blame us for the lack of non rap selections for the generations that followed though. it wasn't that it didn't exist, but more that mtv broke their pledge and played more and more rap...so there is that. i agree we also elected weak people to lead because they were so weak, its either put'em in charge, or feed'em for life. but this goes back to the greatest generation too. what those guys saw and did in ww2 was enough to make them try to never repeat that political structure again. they failed, so did we, and so did you. i guess the road to hell is paved with the best intentions..
Why is it a bad thing to want to make the world better for your children? I feel like we brag about the weirdest things. It’s not a flex to brag about being neglected and growing up into mean, selfish alcoholics.
@@StubbyLegz you call it neglect because we was raised to depend on our selves and not stay on moms tit until we turn thirty,be independent and not feel entitled and not feel that we should be rewarded for every thing whether we deserve it or not. I’ll take that. And not sure about the alcoholic part
So true. She forgot the “stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about”, “go cut me a switch” and the oh so memorable “ drop ‘em and bend over”. We didn’t have no time out, we had a belt across our ass. Talk back?? You’d be picking your teeth up off the floor. Hit back?? Oh boy, you’d learn what it was like to be thrown THROUGH the front door and before you could gather your senses your belongings thrown in a trash bag would smack you upside the head. I can tell you what changed for the next generation… the government created CPS and made it illegal to discipline your children in a way that they wouldn’t soon forget. Before anyone goes thinking that was a good thing… 20 years later we started having these things called school sh00tings and it went downhill from there.
Uhm no…we had school shootings. We’ve had school shootings since the 1800s at least. We had school shootings when the local church doubled as the one-room schoolhouse. What we didn’t have were AR15s or other classes of rapid fire weaponry that could easily take out multiple students and/or teachers in a matter of seconds and was light enough to tuck under a trench coat. Those kinds of guns weren’t prevalent in the way they are today. People didn’t get famous for shooting up a school the way they do today. School shootings were “crazy person” one-offs or isolated incidents when we were kids. Today, mass shootings happen every day. We’re not surprised when they happen. We know the government won’t do anything when they happen. We know there’s probably going to be another one tomorrow or the day after. Collectively, we don’t care. If we cared, we’d change the narrative, but “thoughts and prayers”, “the good guy with a gun”, and red states continue expanding concealed carry without a permitted training requirement, because, that’s supposed to help….somehow. Btw, I have no problem with concealed carry, but I would prefer to know that the person with that weapon on them knew how to hit what they were aiming at and how to safely arm and disarm said weapon. I honestly don’t understand how a training requirement for concealed carry infringes on second amendment rights? But, maybe, just maybe, some folks don’t want to let go of that “it just went off” excuse for “accidentally” murdering someone. I guess you’d have to let that excuse go if there’s paperwork that said you knew better, but that’s just conjecture on my part.
Uh you may have taken it too far. Happy to be a Gen X but don't want to glamorize outward abuse. Not all boomer And Silent generation parents were abusive.
Nope sorry . The school shootings happened after the NRA was radicalized by supply side economics and they flooded our country with guns . Before that nobody had a right to shoot for fun ! It was serious thing people did for food . Beating children wasn’t a good thing . And not beating them is not what started school shootings .
Honestly i wasn’t bullied by my parents. They were very loving to me and helped me along the way. Always gave me good advice and set good moral standards to live by.
OMG!! This last comment is spot on!!... we were living our best LIFE... with EVERYONE... all the TIME! color, religion, place of origin... NONE of it matterd.. we loved and we defended and we Embraced!!.. amazing how that can unravel in 2 generations... makes you think..🤔
Not just that but we were the last generation to get away with stuff...as in we didn't live our teenage lives connected to phones and all over social media. Maaaaannnnnn.....I got into so much trouble, fun trouble...good times.
It’s like you haven’t been listening to us at all. We weren’t ALL embracing, y’all just joined in with the rhythm and acted blind the blues… EVERYONE was not living their best life
Remember when the government had to put out a commercial to remind our parents they had children 😂 At 10:00 pm “do you know where your children are?” All we knew was we had to wake up, eat, go outside, (depending on moms mood we would come back for supper but if we didn’t we better NOT act hungry later) then be home when the street lights came on.
Lol, I sure do! 😂😂 The only thing was that my mom didn't play that! You better be in the house before the street lights stop flickering! If you heard your whole government name, it was already too late!
@datzcap006 lol, what are you on about? The roof, trees and the edge of the cliff were my playground since toddlerhood. And that day I had a 3-metre fall cus I was running on that wall, and my butt was so sore from it, I made sure my parents didn't notice cus the lecture would have been even more painful.
Not really true? You mean "Boomers" told Gen X this. Gen X created Millenials and now they created ZZZZ. Don't get boomers wrong though, we were weaker than "the greatest Gen". It's cyclical. Hard times create hard people, then comes better times and weaker kids follow, and so on! Can you guess what part of the cycle we're in now? You guessed it...the next phase is "hard times again". Sorry but true. It's a correctional cycle and you are living it.
I realized how different my generation was in comparison to my daughters when she asked if we could climb over a locked fence gate at the end of a dead end street we scaled over when we were out walking one evening in a little village I was staying in when she was younger and used to come visit me on the weekends. At that time she lived with her Mom and her new husband full time in the city. Of course I went back and let her do so several times until she had her fill but what she didn’t know is how often I’ve cried just realizing all her generation missed out on. We truly take a lot for granted. Our generation was so much freer and so much more fortunate in the world that we were once raised up in compared to Gen Z. She’s a young adult now but I’m proud to say we are still very close despite the small part I got to play in her life since me and her Mom separated and I thank God every day that we are and I also thank him for giving her such a wonderful Mom and family to be a part of as well. I hear so many sad stories of break-ups that sound just awful on far too many children who got caught up in between two adults who fall out of love which is why me and my daughters Mom worked very hard to keep things amicable and supportive for our little girls sake. But it’s still very sad that we can no longer raise our children the way we used too and expose them to some of the things our generation got to experience when we were growing up because the world is so different now 😢
@EstherDavis-eg2iv bullying was an accepted part of teaching you to be a grown up. Like literally. That was the accepted societal view on it. No one tried to stop it, just told you to suck it up.
I'm Gen X, 79. My kids are Gen Z. I raised them almost the same way I was raised. They behave and think exactly the same as Gen X, but they are the exception, not the rule. This lady is spot on.
😂 I deleted my original comment. It looked lik a book. To cut it shorter. I love it.. "MMA beatings." Ours were more on the side of MMASDB's aka MMS smack down beatings." 😂
@@cindyjohns6222 I saw it recorded in my email…hilarious and I agree with everything u said. I got knocked around the room so fast I spent my childhood years believing I had the ability to fly 😂
@@ODDiSEE_ and we get to help our grandkids do at least half the shit we did (and get away with it!😁) and put the thought of the other shit we did in their heads to see if they can figure out how we did it.
As a Gen Xer myself we don't have the time or patience to argue with anyone, let's just fight and shake hands after and move on. We defined the term zero F's given
@@epeters6933 same here. Almost 53, and while my mom was borderline abusive emotionally, my dad was extremely physically abusive. That being said - everything she said was spot on. I had a hand-me-down bicycle and roller skates. The street lights were what told us to get home.
“Super mocha latte bullsh!t.” 😆 I also loved that she said “you choose the behavior you choose the consequence.” That is what is missing from the young people today…consequences.
I was born in 1969 and everything about this video is spot on correct right down to bicycles flying over many live bodies laying behind the bike ramp and me working my ass off for over 30 years to the tune of 55+ hours week in and week out and many fun times playing in the woods down at the creek for hours as a kid of the 70's and early 80's. Sit Ubu sit.
I asked my dad for allowance once, I was told "your allowance is I allow you to live, I allow you to stay under my roof, I allow you to eat my food, that's your allowance!"
I'm a millennial, so I do remember how Gen X used to be the ones everyone complained about on the news in the early 90s. Then that stopped, then everyone started complaining about millennial. Then that died down, now everyone is complaining about Gen Z and Gen Alpha. See? Gen X didn't get let off the hook, they just already paid their dues.
I appreciate that. Two of my kids are Millennials and one is Gen Z-I get pretty pissed when people my age (and older) start talking shit about them. I always wonder if they remember how it felt to have our parents call us lazy and worthless. That’s something that shouldn’t be paid forward.
@kirstenlandon3043 my favorite response to older people complaining about young people is they should have raised them better. Funny thing is the only people who get offended by that are shittty parents. Every good parent I've ever met laughs at that and then usually nods in agreement.
It's almost like it's easier to pin problems to younger generations because they don't know any better and can't recognize a toxic person when they see one
You were raised exactly like your parents were raised and so on down the line. There came a time when Mom's had to work so you could eat and don't ever think that it wasn't hard for most mothers to spend that much time away from the kids. It wasn't because we wanted to. We had to raise you strong and independent. And we did a good job of that.
@@tonya--7704 sweets. You didn't raise me. Don't tell a stranger how they were raised because you have no idea. I however raised a family. I stayed home so she'd have at least one full time parent. So no we didn't raise our daughter how I was raised. I don't know you. Step back. As Im probably decades older then you to boot. Lol. Telling me "don't ever think it wasnt hard " blah blah blah really you don't know me. Lol you still in mom mode or something? Except Im a STRANGER TO YOU And I never said anything was hard or easy. And didn't direct my 1st comment to anyone inparticular. Sounds like you caught a case of unresolved guilt. Doth protest a bit too much.
@@liberty9784 I was speaking of 'you' as a generation, not personally but you knew that and you sure have some touchy damn feelings. Just like a gen z. And I seriously doubt you are older than I am.
@@tonya--7704 incorrect again you should probably work on those opinions but I'm Generation X. So I'm pretty certain I am older than you. Why would you ever think otherwise I'm commenting on a generation x video. Lol.
@LessMoneyLessChoice Well aren't you the mental midget If I was to have a battle of wit's with you I would definitely be battling an unarmed person ENOUGH SAID
@matthewatwood207 Apparently by your own words just now that you are definitely nothing more than a pedophile loving racist nazi you are definitely the weakest mental link ENOUGH SAID
We were awesome but we went the wrong way with these kids. Our parents were adult centric, making us excited to grow up. We are kid centric, creating kids who never want to grow up. We need to undo gentle helicopter parenting and stop being kid centric.
Grew up in the 80's/90's Life for most American Kids.... _Do As I Say, Not As I Do _The GREAT Wood'n Spoon _The Belt ... (If the spoon broke) _Chores Chores CHORES! _OUT SIDE ALLLL DAY (all weather conditions "ALL") _Ride my bike here, there, everywhere (you'd know where your buddy was, all bikes lay out on Jimmy's Lawn🤪) _MtV (if you didn't, your buddy's house did) _ club houses, tree houses and dream about inventions and the future! _ Strap the radio 📻 or boombox to your bike _ Polaroid pictures, disposable cameras, The beeper/pager, and if you're lucky the cam recorder 📹
100% agree. I am also a Gen Xer. I had the same upbringing. I did not mess around with my parents. My dad’s law at 19 I could no longer live at home and 21 needed to be financially independent. Achieved both, never complained and never looked back.
@I_scribbles Treehouse, orange groves, bikes, skateboards, and my red panel wagon, gang of friends...gone all day playing...home for lunch, maybe...back at nightfall. It is a miracle bad things didn't happen, but we sure had fun.
We were latchkey kids. We took care of our siblings, made dinner cleaned the house etc. Played in the dirt, hurt ourselves, patch it up and went back outside to play.
Yep to that one, I was running the home while Mom worked night shift at the hospital and Dad worked from 6-6 and then was at night school till 9:30pm. Our generation worked just as hard and played just as hard, we helped our parents so they could provide a better home for us all, they made up for it at each school holidays with the best camping trips every summer.as children we never sat in front of a computer screen day in day out playing games heck they were not even in homes that was only in the military movies 😹😹I did not get my first PC until 1989 and then that was so I could take work home lol. Kids today have no idea what it’s like to actually go out side and play street cricket or street football like we did growing up, going out collecting wood for bonfire night or wrapping spuds in foil placing them around the bonfire to get them roasted before the fireworks went off we had fun as children.
In my 50s now, I often say that I'll always be 5 inside... because age 5 was a great year: no significant responsibilities, and I loved being miles away from home on foot making dams, catching frogs, scooping up clay and bringing it home, sculpting things and asking my mom to bake them... playing at anyone's house or yard, and just making sure I was home before mom rang the dinner bell a 2nd time! And if we got hurt, we'd either go to the nearest friend's house or simply to the nearest house with a car in the driveway! When I stepped on a nail, I was taken to the hospital by someone we didn't even know. There were days I waited hours for my mom to pick me up from school. My method of calling her without $ (& of course, no cell phones back then): called her "collect" - when she denied the charges, she knew to come get me. My kids (with phones) will text "ETA?" when they know full-well that we're on our way. Ah, how different are the days today. Gen X is the last truly great generation, IMHO!
😂 Me too! Started at 15 and went hard at it. Decided my 21st bday would be a week long celebration. Hammered for 3 days and then it took me down. The next day was my actual bday. I spent that day laid up on the couch, alone, in my little empty apartment. 😂 I haven’t drank as much in the last 30yrs than I did from 15-21.
As an X'er, I'm trying to remember Anything my parents actually taught me growing up Besides; 'get out of my face & don't bother me'. I'm surprised any of us lived past age 5! I call the Boomers the Real entitled generation.......
I nearly choked in my coffee when she mentioned broken bones. 1980 at 9 yrs old, I broke my arm outside playing (of course) and my mom said, “you’re fine. Walk it off.” Then sent me back out to play. She took me to the hospital 3 days later for a cast. And I had an attentive, good mom!
@@StubbyLegzthey were called that by the boomers ...because they were and still are spoiled narcs It then change to gen X because the X represented 'unable to label' Gen Y was remained millenials...and so on. Thats why Boomers never had a letter assignment. The first one to get it was X But most of Gen X decided to not carry their generational shit over to their kids. Which is why we have based Ys and Zs... if we didn't we'd all be fucked.
Gen X here I was driving at 7 because my dad used to sometimes drink and he needed me to get us home. To be honest you was allowed to buy cigarettes and sit in the bar with your parents and you didn't need a seat belt or a car seat for babies until they changed the law's. Your parent's would beat the brakes off you and so would the neighbors and the cops at that time believed in ass whoopings so call the cops if you want too. As long as we was in the house before the street lights went out we could be in the next state over and your parents wouldn't know.
Gen Xer's are the realist, we call it how we see it! I'm 46 and I can can relate to damn near everything she said, the whole world is soft af now, compared to when we were kids💯
And we Gen X'ers never got a "Participant Trophy" either. In the summer I was kicked out of the house after breakfast, came back for lunch, kicked out of the house after lunch, then expected to be back for dinner by six. My parents, being Depression Era children, never "gave" me money. I did chores for allowance, started mowing lawns for extra money. If I got into trouble, the town knew about what I had done BEFORE I had done it and had called my mother to let her know hours before I got home! For entertainment, we made it up, we go swim in the river, or even camp out in the back yard & stared at the night sky. So hold onto your shorts you poof headed pansies and step aside because us Gen X'ers are coming through!
As a millennial raised in a household with a gen x older brother I can confirm they give 0 about “how it hurts your little feelings” and you know what I grew up not being a coddled whimp because of my brother god bless you bro.😎
Gen X also ate what our mom gave us. No special orders at dinner time, no dairy free or vegan choices available, if you don't like it you can go to bed hungry. The kitchen is closed after dinner is over if you were there or not.
Gen X is also called The Forgotten Generation. So, we didn’t get left off the hook. We just got put outside and forgotten about…but these younger generations would be shouting about how they don’t feel validated 😂
Have you been bullied by your parents? Forgive us if we don’t have any feelings. 😂 Love it. I was babysitting kids by myself when I was 10 and I mean alone and by myself. Did what you were told or feel the slap. Don’t get sassy or feel the slap. This was not child abuse but old school discipline. Loved my parents and miss them tremendously.
My brother got spanked I figgered out I should do what I’m told I’m quick like that 😜 I didn’t be loud inappropriately either. My grandpa himself would have smacked me. We waited till old ppl left. Then we still weren’t shrieking inside 😳 the shrieking is insane that parents allow
This is why I've raised my 13 year old son similar to the way i was raised (without the abuse). He's ahead of the curve, quick witted, sharp tongued, but respectful of his elders. He started boxing in the first grade, and thinks alot of his contemporaries at school are soft and weird, but knows to stick up for the underdog. 😎
Me it was going down the bad side of the hill on a dare. Bent handle bars too and arm in a sling. Took the car up there at 16. Survived intact.😆 Though kids did the bike thing too.
Gen-X here. We had organised fight clubs after school, where we boxed our way up through the ranks to try and beat the older kids at the top. And because we were ‘inclusive’, boys fought against girls and it was based on pure skill. We started this club when I was 10 years old. The funniest part about the whole club was that we all went to school the next day with no hard feelings. The fights were organised and if you missed out moving up to the next round, you tried again another day. Sometimes, I think back to those days and think damn! Growing up in Australia in the 80s was pretty gritty. We also had the neighbourhood flasher who used to flash us in his bath robe as we walked to school and then we would chant at the top of our lungs, ‘F*ck off you f*cking pervert’ until he would scamper back inside. Then there was the time a group of people tried to coax me and my little brother into a car walking home after school, by telling us our mother told them to come and collect us. I grabbed my brother and started screaming, ‘F*ck off, we don’t know you!’ I think we were a lot more streetwise and gutsy!
Generation X is the only generation of latchkey kids. I was a twin so we were certainly grown by age 9. By age 11 in 5th grade we were babysitting the neighbors kid who was 8 in the 2nd grade while both parents were at work and our single mother was at work. We made a whooping $120 bi-weekly. $60 every other week in 5th grade. 🤑 On my first pay day, I rushed down to the record store on the corner and bought a cassette tape of Eric B and Rahkims “Paid in Full”…..I’ve literally been working since I was 11 years old. By age 12 we were full time home health aids. Child labor laws where? Not to mention by age 10 my twin sister could cook like an adult and I could clean better than a house keeper…..and if we dared complain we would’ve fucked around and found out! 😅😂
So u worked 3-11 at nite? Doing home health aide Or allll weekend? My dad n sibs (boomers) worked on the farm when not in school n all summer Not one became anything manual labor lol all 10 got their masters but one- “just” got her bach
8 yrs old I had key tied around my neck with a shoelace. I had to get my little sister off the bus, let us both in and feed her and I and wait til my parents got home from work. And for the love of god DONT lose that key! Or forget it. They were no cell phones so if it’s January in Michigan you just sitting on the porch freezing for hours. And when your parents did get home and saw a kidsicle on the porch. They didn’t let you warm up first before whooping that butt for losing the key. Ahhhh the 80s.
@down-to-earth-mystery-school what it was is irrelevant. Because it is what was. Regardless we learned extremely valuable life lessons at a young age out of necessity. They have served our generation well. Have you noticed which generation built the world we live in right now? Ours. Now, can a balance be struck? Absolutely. Should we have corporal punishment as a consequence for everything? No. Should we remove legit consequences because we don't want to hurt feelings? Also absolutely not. That helps no one. Consequences are pre-selected by your action. That is the choice. What happens is no longer up to you. That is the disconnect right now. We did a pendulum and swung way too far the other way and it is just as abusive as it fails to prepare for actual adult life amd sets utterly unrealistic expectations for behavior and treatment. Consequences aren't some multiple choice menu. But again, what happened 40+ years ago is pointless to label because it is iver and done and immutable now. But lessons can be learned. And swinging to a diametric opposite is NOT the lesson. Current generations have a chance to balance the two. And if nothing else this is what GenX should be doing. We're we raised right? No... but we absolutely learned how to adult very well. Did we raise our kids right? Also no... and they haven't really learned the life lessons we did. We should have and could ha e done better to balance tough love without neglect and emotional health needs. We are all victims of our upbringing.
And no matter where in the USA we were born and “raised” we ALL had the exact same childhood and are now damn near exact copies of this very lady telling you straight facts!!😅😂. We also have the ability to find any and EVERY situation funny. So come on over with your bad self! We be giving out free reality checks!!
I'm Gen X 1973 June Cancer 🦀 ♋️ model, and I can attest that every situation is definitely Not Funny ! Not all Gen Xers are stone cold psychopaths, some of us have intelligence, empathy, and understanding, and take things that need to be taken seriously. I'm just saying.
1971 here 🙋🏽♀️ and I LOVE my generation!!! When your mama came up to the school to beat your arse in front of the whole class and the teacher and the principal let her! That’s what we working with up in here. Unfortunately on the flip side my peers of my generation who scraped their knees getting up out the projects or off welfare or food stamps or who’ve been working since they were 15, or who were latchkey kids and generally came up in the struggle turned around and made their kids whiners, punks, crybabies, brats, handed them everything they wanted, got offended at teachers and principals, and raised a generation of entitled weirdo’s…that’s where gen X fell off sadly. We had it so tough we thought we were doing the next generation better by making life easier, less harsh…we are now living the effects of that miscalculation
She forgot to mention a lot of us were latch key kids, and we helped raise our siblings too.
I was a latchkey kid.
Her name is Jen Sally look her up she has a whole series of these
I got a dollar to watch my sister for 1 hour till dad got home from work. 🎉 I loved my childhood as a gen X’er. $5 per week was awesome pay!
@@redpill9624 wow 😮 you got paid!! That is awesome.
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Gen X doesn’t bother to jump into the generation fights because we deal with our shit instead of wasting our time blaming someone else.
@@yinyangphoenix Sorry to break it to you but the word is opportunist. Sit, wait, prick up the scrap. Ambition? What is that Phoenix?
@@nonyabussnez6536 Prick up the scrap? Yammer on dear, Yammer on....
@yinyangphoenix no. We bury it instead of wasting time dealing with it. You must have been born Dec 31st. The millennials are the ones that embraced therapy.
@@olaff4223 Ah. Unconquerable youth. Bury it? It’s been done before. Millennials embrace nothing. Too lazy to care even about mistakes. When you bury, indubitably raise its ugly Gorgon snake head and come roost in your mind later in life. You, of course will not believe anything I have written. But my advice is very useful. Reminds me of the dirge ‘when you only got a 100 years to live’. I mean it’s a line from the song. I’m 62 but I’ll be around when you hit the inevitable mid life crisis. Though these days that seems to be at 30. ‘30’s almost got me and am so over lonesome’. Ha Ha Ha. Carry on young mind, expand. Self awareness, whew. Introspection, ay ay ay. A bevy of good values follows: mindfulness, mildness, meekness, joy, love, peace, Oneness!
Anybody else feel we all had the same childhood after listening to her?!😂
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Baddest MF generation out there
@@averagejoe2445 Period! THEY NOT LIKE US! WE BUILT DIFFERENT!!! 💪🔥💋😎😘
@@dreamscapenow Way different.
1972 kid but even better raised by 1920’s parents. NO EXCUSES OVER HERE!! Get up, make the bed, wash up, eat, go to Church, go to school, do your homework, wash the dishes, clean the house, mow the lawn, rake the leaves up, shovel the driveway, do your laundry. What else? Whatever Mom and dad said, be happy you have a roof over your head and parents who love and take care of you. No, I did not get paid until I went out to get an actual J O B 😂.
You didn’t get paid for helping to take care of your own home.
Raised my kids the same way now they are independent, have their own homes and send me on vacation’s because they love me😊.
Might I add. Played outside, home before the street lights came on, drank out out of the garden hose, ate dirt, built forts, played in the woods, re-enacted Saturday Kung Fu movies, built bike ramps, played board games, got beat up, returned the favor and made friends for Life!
Facts… Facts.. Facts.. 1974 baby here
As a Gen X person..I have to say.. We thought racism was fixed with our generation.. We shared music, Jobs, Goals and Politics.. We Cared together.. Live Aid, Farm Aid, We are the World and everything else.. Amnesty International got funded and People were better.. But we let weak people get elected and we GIFTED a comfortable existence on our children.. and that created the weakness we see today.
hell, i figured that we (boomers) had it all figured out as well. when i went through marine basic in the 70's we had every color in the spectrum. both in recruits and leadership because 2 of our di's were a different color. i do blame us for the lack of non rap selections for the generations that followed though. it wasn't that it didn't exist, but more that mtv broke their pledge and played more and more rap...so there is that. i agree we also elected weak people to lead because they were so weak, its either put'em in charge, or feed'em for life. but this goes back to the greatest generation too. what those guys saw and did in ww2 was enough to make them try to never repeat that political structure again. they failed, so did we, and so did you. i guess the road to hell is paved with the best intentions..
@@rickforespring4834...and no good deed goes unpunished
Why is it a bad thing to want to make the world better for your children? I feel like we brag about the weirdest things. It’s not a flex to brag about being neglected and growing up into mean, selfish alcoholics.
@@StubbyLegz you call it neglect because we was raised to depend on our selves and not stay on moms tit until we turn thirty,be independent and not feel entitled and not feel that we should be rewarded for every thing whether we deserve it or not. I’ll take that. And not sure about the alcoholic part
@@StubbyLegzmelanie... this is not the place to rant about how bad your parents were. Get some therapy
So true. She forgot the “stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about”, “go cut me a switch” and the oh so memorable “ drop ‘em and bend over”. We didn’t have no time out, we had a belt across our ass. Talk back?? You’d be picking your teeth up off the floor. Hit back?? Oh boy, you’d learn what it was like to be thrown THROUGH the front door and before you could gather your senses your belongings thrown in a trash bag would smack you upside the head. I can tell you what changed for the next generation… the government created CPS and made it illegal to discipline your children in a way that they wouldn’t soon forget. Before anyone goes thinking that was a good thing… 20 years later we started having these things called school sh00tings and it went downhill from there.
Uhm no…we had school shootings. We’ve had school shootings since the 1800s at least. We had school shootings when the local church doubled as the one-room schoolhouse. What we didn’t have were AR15s or other classes of rapid fire weaponry that could easily take out multiple students and/or teachers in a matter of seconds and was light enough to tuck under a trench coat. Those kinds of guns weren’t prevalent in the way they are today. People didn’t get famous for shooting up a school the way they do today. School shootings were “crazy person” one-offs or isolated incidents when we were kids. Today, mass shootings happen every day. We’re not surprised when they happen. We know the government won’t do anything when they happen. We know there’s probably going to be another one tomorrow or the day after. Collectively, we don’t care. If we cared, we’d change the narrative, but “thoughts and prayers”, “the good guy with a gun”, and red states continue expanding concealed carry without a permitted training requirement, because, that’s supposed to help….somehow. Btw, I have no problem with concealed carry, but I would prefer to know that the person with that weapon on them knew how to hit what they were aiming at and how to safely arm and disarm said weapon. I honestly don’t understand how a training requirement for concealed carry infringes on second amendment rights? But, maybe, just maybe, some folks don’t want to let go of that “it just went off” excuse for “accidentally” murdering someone. I guess you’d have to let that excuse go if there’s paperwork that said you knew better, but that’s just conjecture on my part.
Uh you may have taken it too far. Happy to be a Gen X but don't want to glamorize outward abuse. Not all boomer And Silent generation parents were abusive.
Nope sorry . The school shootings happened after the NRA was radicalized by supply side economics and they flooded our country with guns . Before that nobody had a right to shoot for fun ! It was serious thing people did for food .
Beating children wasn’t a good thing . And not beating them is not what started school shootings .
"You better stop crying before I GIVE you something to cry about." & " Do you want me to stop this car? "
Bullied by your own parents.
That is absolutely correct 🤣😂😅
Absolutely! That part keeps running through my head, lol.
I got beat by nuns !
This happens to everyone.
@@nonyabussnez6536 except today. Now it's considered abuse and these brats have rights!!!😡😡😡
@@traviskalmoni maybe in your household. Wish it was true in all houses but alas, things never change for REAL.
All y'all that have been bullied by their own parents and developed skin like a rhinos to defend against insults and bullies, raise your hands. 🖐️
I will give you a Stone Cold Steve Austin "Hell Ya"
👍
Right here!
Hands raised
✋✋✋✋
“You ever been bullied by your own parents?” That hits.
Yes. Yes it does. They were my worst bulllies 😂
Honestly i wasn’t bullied by my parents. They were very loving to me and helped me along the way. Always gave me good advice and set good moral standards to live by.
Yes!!!
Some of us were raised on rock n roll ,we grew up in a constant cloud of cigarette smoke. Walking ourselves to and from school ,many blocks away
Yall are the ones preventing us from walking to school on our own because of kidnappings, rapes and gangs. So who's to fault that?
OMG!! This last comment is spot on!!... we were living our best LIFE... with EVERYONE... all the TIME! color, religion, place of origin... NONE of it matterd.. we loved and we defended and we Embraced!!.. amazing how that can unravel in 2 generations... makes you think..🤔
Not just that but we were the last generation to get away with stuff...as in we didn't live our teenage lives connected to phones and all over social media. Maaaaannnnnn.....I got into so much trouble, fun trouble...good times.
It’s like you haven’t been listening to us at all. We weren’t ALL embracing, y’all just joined in with the rhythm and acted blind the blues… EVERYONE was not living their best life
@@jocelynborbolla6852 and the good part is that there isn't any pictures of it.😁
I was born in January 1965 and graduated 1984 and what she is saying is PURE FACTS!!!!
We're the crossover years. 64 and 65. A bit of both.
Remember when the government had to put out a commercial to remind our parents they had children 😂
At 10:00 pm “do you know where your children are?”
All we knew was we had to wake up, eat, go outside, (depending on moms mood we would come back for supper but if we didn’t we better NOT act hungry later) then be home when the street lights came on.
Lol, I sure do! 😂😂 The only thing was that my mom didn't play that! You better be in the house before the street lights stop flickering! If you heard your whole government name, it was already too late!
Gen x grew up with the respect factor.. disrespecting someone got you a punch in the mouth
"why arent we giving GenX sh!t?" its called fear and good judgement.
Oh there are people are.
Check this video out.
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Gen X parent: "If you fall off that roof and break your legs, don't come running to me!"
🤣😂😅
Don't think this gen even considers climbing that high.
@datzcap006 lol, what are you on about? The roof, trees and the edge of the cliff were my playground since toddlerhood.
And that day I had a 3-metre fall cus I was running on that wall, and my butt was so sore from it, I made sure my parents didn't notice cus the lecture would have been even more painful.
Not really true? You mean "Boomers" told Gen X this. Gen X created Millenials and now they created ZZZZ. Don't get boomers wrong though, we were weaker than "the greatest Gen". It's cyclical. Hard times create hard people, then comes better times and weaker kids follow, and so on! Can you guess what part of the cycle we're in now? You guessed it...the next phase is "hard times again". Sorry but true. It's a correctional cycle and you are living it.
Dry it up before I give you something to cry about. 😂
I realized how different my generation was in comparison to my daughters when she asked if we could climb over a locked fence gate at the end of a dead end street we scaled over when we were out walking one evening in a little village I was staying in when she was younger and used to come visit me on the weekends. At that time she lived with her Mom and her new husband full time in the city. Of course I went back and let her do so several times until she had her fill but what she didn’t know is how often I’ve cried just realizing all her generation missed out on. We truly take a lot for granted. Our generation was so much freer and so much more fortunate in the world that we were once raised up in compared to Gen Z. She’s a young adult now but I’m proud to say we are still very close despite the small part I got to play in her life since me and her Mom separated and I thank God every day that we are and I also thank him for giving her such a wonderful Mom and family to be a part of as well. I hear so many sad stories of break-ups that sound just awful on far too many children who got caught up in between two adults who fall out of love which is why me and my daughters Mom worked very hard to keep things amicable and supportive for our little girls sake. But it’s still very sad that we can no longer raise our children the way we used too and expose them to some of the things our generation got to experience when we were growing up because the world is so different now 😢
That beautiful woman tells NO LIES.
“You ever been bullied by your own parents, that’s why we don’t have any feelings.” Hilarious 😮
"we got bullied by our parents, that's why we have no feelings!!" NEVER heard something so true!!!
Right😂😂
@EstherDavis-eg2iv bullying was an accepted part of teaching you to be a grown up. Like literally. That was the accepted societal view on it. No one tried to stop it, just told you to suck it up.
@@mycroft16 yup "suck it up buttercup" 🤪
"When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequence." Love it!
I'm Gen X, 79. My kids are Gen Z. I raised them almost the same way I was raised. They behave and think exactly the same as Gen X, but they are the exception, not the rule. This lady is spot on.
Yep same here. My girls r raised how I was……… minus all the MMA beatings we received
😂😂😂MMA beating 😂CLASSIC @@SparkWah
😂 I deleted my original comment. It looked lik a book. To cut it shorter.
I love it..
"MMA beatings."
Ours were more on the side of MMASDB's aka MMS smack down beatings." 😂
@@cindyjohns6222 I saw it recorded in my email…hilarious and I agree with everything u said. I got knocked around the room so fast I spent my childhood years believing I had the ability to fly 😂
Gen X is gonna be the most hilarious grandparents ever.
We already are!
@@ODDiSEE_ and we get to help our grandkids do at least half the shit we did (and get away with it!😁) and put the thought of the other shit we did in their heads to see if they can figure out how we did it.
2:42 SHE GAVE NOTHING BUT FACTS....LOL 🤣😅😅😅🤣😂.....GOD BLESS GEN X ❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️🙌🏽👍🏽💪🏽
As a Gen Xer myself we don't have the time or patience to argue with anyone, let's just fight and shake hands after and move on. We defined the term zero F's given
Gen X’er here and she ain’t never lied💯❤️
The southern lady summed it up perfectly!
I am 51 years old, this is 💯🔥
@@epeters6933 same here. Almost 53, and while my mom was borderline abusive emotionally, my dad was extremely physically abusive. That being said - everything she said was spot on. I had a hand-me-down bicycle and roller skates. The street lights were what told us to get home.
As someone born in 1972, I definitely approve this message!
"It's 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?" 😂
A Boomer who approves Gen.X Message! 😂😂😂😂 No lounge mats with Our kids.👍 Thank you.
The boomers aren't for play play either 😅😅you don't f around and find out they just do it 😅😅 and you know it😅
“Super mocha latte bullsh!t.” 😆 I also loved that she said “you choose the behavior you choose the consequence.” That is what is missing from the young people today…consequences.
I was born in 1969 and everything about this video is spot on correct right down to bicycles flying over many live bodies laying behind the bike ramp and me working my ass off for over 30 years to the tune of 55+ hours week in and week out and many fun times playing in the woods down at the creek for hours as a kid of the 70's and early 80's. Sit Ubu sit.
Good dog😂
Not one thing she said was even close to wrong. I love being from Gen X
Good dog...
We are the only generation that is fluent in both digital and analog. Show some respect
That's true. GenX does not care what other generations think. They are TOUGH.
"You ever been bullied by your own parents? They're the reason we don't have feelings."
*nods unemotionally*
😆
I asked my dad for allowance once, I was told "your allowance is I allow you to live, I allow you to stay under my roof, I allow you to eat my food, that's your allowance!"
Facts I was told the same thing by my pops 🤣🤣🤣
@@Herb-z9w u better believe it 😂😂😂😂😂What’s an allowance. No my peeps didn’t play that
@@Herb-z9w I got the same from my parents. That hit hard.
I’m 69 yrs old. My generation raised em. We have their backs. ❤
Our biggest bully was our parents🤯. I'm reminding my teenager that ASAP
I'm a millennial, so I do remember how Gen X used to be the ones everyone complained about on the news in the early 90s. Then that stopped, then everyone started complaining about millennial. Then that died down, now everyone is complaining about Gen Z and Gen Alpha. See? Gen X didn't get let off the hook, they just already paid their dues.
I appreciate that. Two of my kids are Millennials and one is Gen Z-I get pretty pissed when people my age (and older) start talking shit about them. I always wonder if they remember how it felt to have our parents call us lazy and worthless. That’s something that shouldn’t be paid forward.
Now Social Media everyone is complaining. 😅😅🙈🙈🙈
Very awesome,, comment perfectly explained
@kirstenlandon3043 my favorite response to older people complaining about young people is they should have raised them better. Funny thing is the only people who get offended by that are shittty parents. Every good parent I've ever met laughs at that and then usually nods in agreement.
It's almost like it's easier to pin problems to younger generations because they don't know any better and can't recognize a toxic person when they see one
"Playing in the wish a mothafucka woods."
@@M1ManOwaR 😭😂😂😂
"Yall ever been bullied by your own parents. Well we were and that's why we don't have any feelings." She's not lying yall.
You were raised exactly like your parents were raised and so on down the line. There came a time when Mom's had to work so you could eat and don't ever think that it wasn't hard for most mothers to spend that much time away from the kids. It wasn't because we wanted to. We had to raise you strong and independent. And we did a good job of that.
@@tonya--7704 sweets. You didn't raise me. Don't tell a stranger how they were raised because you have no idea. I however raised a family. I stayed home so she'd have at least one full time parent. So no we didn't raise our daughter how I was raised. I don't know you. Step back. As Im probably decades older then you to boot. Lol. Telling me "don't ever think it wasnt hard " blah blah blah really you don't know me. Lol you still in mom mode or something? Except Im a STRANGER TO YOU And I never said anything was hard or easy. And didn't direct my 1st comment to anyone inparticular.
Sounds like you caught a case of unresolved guilt. Doth protest a bit too much.
@@liberty9784
I was speaking of 'you' as a generation, not personally but you knew that and you sure have some touchy damn feelings. Just like a gen z. And I seriously doubt you are older than I am.
@@tonya--7704 incorrect again you should probably work on those opinions but I'm Generation X. So I'm pretty certain I am older than you. Why would you ever think otherwise I'm commenting on a generation x video. Lol.
@@liberty9784
I raised genxers. Two of them.
“Bullied by your own parents” had me laughing and crying at the same time 😢😂
I was born in 1963 I'm a Veteran I have NO FILTER you have been warned
ENOUGH SAID
Technically you’re a boomer unfortunately 😂the cut off is 1965.
@LessMoneyLessChoice
Well aren't you the mental midget
If I was to have a battle of wit's with you I would definitely be battling an unarmed person
ENOUGH SAID
@@paulwarren1152 is it no filter, or is it lead poisoning?
@matthewatwood207
Apparently by your own words just now that you are definitely nothing more than a pedophile loving racist nazi you are definitely the weakest mental link ENOUGH SAID
Shiver me timbers
To be clear, Generation X was born from 1965-1980 and will turn 44-59 in 2024.🎉
I pity those that didn’t grow up like we did. We work hard, play hard and have done more than you have any idea.
We were awesome but we went the wrong way with these kids.
Our parents were adult centric, making us excited to grow up.
We are kid centric, creating kids who never want to grow up.
We need to undo gentle helicopter parenting and stop being kid centric.
It's the "we speak 2 languages--> real shit & SARCASM" 😂
I resemble that remark.
@@rosejones9978 usual within the same sentence too🤣🤣
My kids learned how to tell the difference and by this statement I know yours did too😊
Im Gen X. This gal hits it on the head. Damn i miss the 70s & 80's .
We would be out till the street lights come on. I was more scared of my mum and dad than the police.
💯% Facts
Grew up in the 80's/90's Life for most American Kids....
_Do As I Say, Not As I Do
_The GREAT Wood'n Spoon
_The Belt ... (If the spoon broke)
_Chores Chores CHORES!
_OUT SIDE ALLLL DAY (all weather conditions "ALL")
_Ride my bike here, there, everywhere (you'd know where your buddy was, all bikes lay out on Jimmy's Lawn🤪)
_MtV (if you didn't, your buddy's house did)
_ club houses, tree houses and dream about inventions and the future!
_ Strap the radio 📻 or boombox to your bike
_ Polaroid pictures, disposable cameras, The beeper/pager, and if you're lucky the cam recorder 📹
As an older member of GenX, I fully support this message.😂😂😂
Yo they had to put a full blown commercial on tv to remind parents they reproduced “it’s 10 PM, do you know where your children are?”
Yes!
😂😂😂❤❤❤
Can you imagine feeling that safe.
We were 30 at 10 and we’re still 30 at 50
💯
"If you choose the behavior, you choose the consequence" needs to be on a 👕.
She Spoke Nothing But Facts I’m A 1974 Gen X Child and Proud 💜💜
She’s on point! Don’t mess with Generation X because we do exist!
100% agree. I am also a Gen Xer. I had the same upbringing. I did not mess around with my parents. My dad’s law at 19 I could no longer live at home and 21 needed to be financially independent. Achieved both, never complained and never looked back.
Exactly
GEN Xers..”SHUT MY DAMN DOOR..I AINT TRYIN TO COOL OFF THA NEIGHBORHOOD!”🤣🤣🤣
As a member of Gen X I approve this message 💯%! 👏🥰🤣😉
“We were 7 miles away playing in the i wish a muther fcker woods…” was all that was needed 😂
My childhood in a nutshell
I had tree fort, a ground fort and I dug an underground fort that fit five! Those. Were. The. Days.
@I_scribbles Treehouse, orange groves, bikes, skateboards, and my red panel wagon, gang of friends...gone all day playing...home for lunch, maybe...back at nightfall. It is a miracle bad things didn't happen, but we sure had fun.
@@BethRobinson-wz6rt
great memories!
@@I_scribbles oh indeed, miss that unique niave freedom
Not "playing in the wish a mufu woods" 😂😂😂😂😂I knew she was gonna bring it before she opened her mouth😂😂😂😂😂
We were latchkey kids. We took care of our siblings, made dinner cleaned the house etc. Played in the dirt, hurt ourselves, patch it up and went back outside to play.
Yep to that one, I was running the home while Mom worked night shift at the hospital and Dad worked from 6-6 and then was at night school till 9:30pm. Our generation worked just as hard and played just as hard, we helped our parents so they could provide a better home for us all, they made up for it at each school holidays with the best camping trips every summer.as children we never sat in front of a computer screen day in day out playing games heck they were not even in homes that was only in the military movies 😹😹I did not get my first PC until 1989 and then that was so I could take work home lol.
Kids today have no idea what it’s like to actually go out side and play street cricket or street football like we did growing up, going out collecting wood for bonfire night or wrapping spuds in foil placing them around the bonfire to get them roasted before the fireworks went off we had fun as children.
In my 50s now, I often say that I'll always be 5 inside... because age 5 was a great year: no significant responsibilities, and I loved being miles away from home on foot making dams, catching frogs, scooping up clay and bringing it home, sculpting things and asking my mom to bake them... playing at anyone's house or yard, and just making sure I was home before mom rang the dinner bell a 2nd time! And if we got hurt, we'd either go to the nearest friend's house or simply to the nearest house with a car in the driveway! When I stepped on a nail, I was taken to the hospital by someone we didn't even know.
There were days I waited hours for my mom to pick me up from school. My method of calling her without $ (& of course, no cell phones back then): called her "collect" - when she denied the charges, she knew to come get me.
My kids (with phones) will text "ETA?" when they know full-well that we're on our way.
Ah, how different are the days today. Gen X is the last truly great generation, IMHO!
We had our own house keys by 1st grade. LOL You had better to learn to survive on your own until they came home from
Work.
She said it perfectly and with the appropriate accent. Thank you Ma'am!!! 😂😅😊
“We pregame harder than you party” that got me so hard🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Soooooo true. I drank more before I turned 21 than in the 10yrs after, try me bish.
For real !!!!
😂 Me too! Started at 15 and went hard at it. Decided my 21st bday would be a week long celebration. Hammered for 3 days and then it took me down. The next day was my actual bday. I spent that day laid up on the couch, alone, in my little empty apartment. 😂 I haven’t drank as much in the last 30yrs than I did from 15-21.
As an X'er, I'm trying to remember Anything my parents actually taught me growing up Besides; 'get out of my face & don't bother me'. I'm surprised any of us lived past age 5! I call the Boomers the Real entitled generation.......
Frfr
I nearly choked in my coffee when she mentioned broken bones. 1980 at 9 yrs old, I broke my arm outside playing (of course) and my mom said, “you’re fine. Walk it off.” Then sent me back out to play. She took me to the hospital 3 days later for a cast. And I had an attentive, good mom!
They were called “The Me Generation”. Watch George Carlin’s standup bit about the Boomers.
@@StubbyLegzthey were called that by the boomers ...because they were and still are spoiled narcs
It then change to gen X because the X represented 'unable to label'
Gen Y was remained millenials...and so on. Thats why Boomers never had a letter assignment. The first one to get it was X
But most of Gen X decided to not carry their generational shit over to their kids. Which is why we have based Ys and Zs... if we didn't we'd all be fucked.
Last year boomer. Sure wish I was entitled.
As an X’er I can vouch for everything she said and I support this message 😂
I'm a millennial and this is how I was raised. no cell phones, no computer, you were thrown outside to play.
We accept you brother. But don't bring any of your friends with you. Invite only
Gen X here I was driving at 7 because my dad used to sometimes drink and he needed me to get us home. To be honest you was allowed to buy cigarettes and sit in the bar with your parents and you didn't need a seat belt or a car seat for babies until they changed the law's. Your parent's would beat the brakes off you and so would the neighbors and the cops at that time believed in ass whoopings so call the cops if you want too. As long as we was in the house before the street lights went out we could be in the next state over and your parents wouldn't know.
Man I miss those days.
"we speak two languages: real sh*t and sarcasm"... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
WHERE IS THE LIE?!?!
"Mocha choka lotta bull sh*t had me HOLLERIN!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
If we screwed up and our parents didn’t catch it, another adult would get you.
The bike ramp thing and being deep in the woods got me the most. Perfect.
🤣😂🤣
That lady with the southern draw calmly said she'll knock that gen-z boy the f-out.
😂😆🤣
Super Mocha Lacha Bullsht.
Shots fired... man down man down!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
She told the entire truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
Gen Xer's are the realist, we call it how we see it! I'm 46 and I can can relate to damn near everything she said, the whole world is soft af now, compared to when we were kids💯
Im 53 when i was a kid, i was outside on my bike ALLL DAY LONG!
“We pre-game harder than you party” 😂😂😂
And we Gen X'ers never got a "Participant Trophy" either. In the summer I was kicked out of the house after breakfast, came back for lunch, kicked out of the house after lunch, then expected to be back for dinner by six. My parents, being Depression Era children, never "gave" me money. I did chores for allowance, started mowing lawns for extra money. If I got into trouble, the town knew about what I had done BEFORE I had done it and had called my mother to let her know hours before I got home! For entertainment, we made it up, we go swim in the river, or even camp out in the back yard & stared at the night sky. So hold onto your shorts you poof headed pansies and step aside because us Gen X'ers are coming through!
As a millennial raised in a household with a gen x older brother I can confirm they give 0 about “how it hurts your little feelings” and you know what I grew up not being a coddled whimp because of my brother god bless you bro.😎
Don't forget the REAL train tracks we played on not with
Gen X also ate what our mom gave us. No special orders at dinner time, no dairy free or vegan choices available, if you don't like it you can go to bed hungry. The kitchen is closed after dinner is over if you were there or not.
So, your parents didn't believe in lactose intolerance? I guess they like vomit, because that's what would happen.
Gen X is also called The Forgotten Generation. So, we didn’t get left off the hook. We just got put outside and forgotten about…but these younger generations would be shouting about how they don’t feel validated 😂
It's not about being forgotten, we just mind our damn business!. We've been "there" and done "that". 😂
Hell, first lesson we learned is "You are not special." A bunch of people really need to get that through their heads.
70s, 80s and 90s, greatest decades ever... period. In fact maybe the world did end on 2012, after that year this whole world has got to shit!!!
Have you been bullied by your parents? Forgive us if we don’t have any feelings. 😂 Love it. I was babysitting kids by myself when I was 10 and I mean alone and by myself. Did what you were told or feel the slap. Don’t get sassy or feel the slap. This was not child abuse but old school discipline. Loved my parents and miss them tremendously.
My mom was the ultimate bully..guess that's why I don't have feelings 😊
My brother got spanked
I figgered out I should do what I’m told
I’m quick like that 😜
I didn’t be loud inappropriately either. My grandpa himself would have smacked me. We waited till old ppl left. Then we still weren’t shrieking inside 😳 the shrieking is insane that parents allow
This is why I've raised my 13 year old son similar to the way i was raised (without the abuse). He's ahead of the curve, quick witted, sharp tongued, but respectful of his elders. He started boxing in the first grade, and thinks alot of his contemporaries at school are soft and weird, but knows to stick up for the underdog. 😎
Don't skip out on the abuse...it was the magical ingredient 😂😂
Lord you are right without the abuse because they didn't mind cutting our Azzes with ANYTHING!!!!
I'm one of the kids that did break my arm on a home built BMX ramp, best day of my life, until I landed
I miss you Lolz or maybe that was someone else Lolz the days of building skate and bike ramps to enjoy before they got torn down hahaha
Me it was going down the bad side of the hill on a dare. Bent handle bars too and arm in a sling. Took the car up there at 16. Survived intact.😆 Though kids did the bike thing too.
Gen-X here. We had organised fight clubs after school, where we boxed our way up through the ranks to try and beat the older kids at the top. And because we were ‘inclusive’, boys fought against girls and it was based on pure skill. We started this club when I was 10 years old. The funniest part about the whole club was that we all went to school the next day with no hard feelings. The fights were organised and if you missed out moving up to the next round, you tried again another day. Sometimes, I think back to those days and think damn! Growing up in Australia in the 80s was pretty gritty. We also had the neighbourhood flasher who used to flash us in his bath robe as we walked to school and then we would chant at the top of our lungs, ‘F*ck off you f*cking pervert’ until he would scamper back inside. Then there was the time a group of people tried to coax me and my little brother into a car walking home after school, by telling us our mother told them to come and collect us. I grabbed my brother and started screaming, ‘F*ck off, we don’t know you!’ I think we were a lot more streetwise and gutsy!
I miss those days were going to sports events kept you socially connected and in shape.
Got the scars to prove it too!
Generation X is the only generation of latchkey kids. I was a twin so we were certainly grown by age 9. By age 11 in 5th grade we were babysitting the neighbors kid who was 8 in the 2nd grade while both parents were at work and our single mother was at work. We made a whooping $120 bi-weekly. $60 every other week in 5th grade. 🤑 On my first pay day, I rushed down to the record store on the corner and bought a cassette tape of Eric B and Rahkims “Paid in Full”…..I’ve literally been working since I was 11 years old. By age 12 we were full time home health aids. Child labor laws where? Not to mention by age 10 my twin sister could cook like an adult and I could clean better than a house keeper…..and if we dared complain we would’ve fucked around and found out! 😅😂
So u worked 3-11 at nite? Doing home health aide
Or allll weekend?
My dad n sibs (boomers) worked on the farm when not in school n all summer
Not one became anything manual labor lol all 10 got their masters but one- “just” got her bach
8 yrs old I had key tied around my neck with a shoelace. I had to get my little sister off the bus, let us both in and feed her and I and wait til my parents got home from work. And for the love of god DONT lose that key! Or forget it. They were no cell phones so if it’s January in Michigan you just sitting on the porch freezing for hours. And when your parents did get home and saw a kidsicle on the porch. They didn’t let you warm up first before whooping that butt for losing the key. Ahhhh the 80s.
Yeh, I we t through that too, and now I understand it was child abuse and neglect.
@down-to-earth-mystery-school what it was is irrelevant. Because it is what was. Regardless we learned extremely valuable life lessons at a young age out of necessity. They have served our generation well. Have you noticed which generation built the world we live in right now? Ours. Now, can a balance be struck? Absolutely. Should we have corporal punishment as a consequence for everything? No. Should we remove legit consequences because we don't want to hurt feelings? Also absolutely not. That helps no one. Consequences are pre-selected by your action. That is the choice. What happens is no longer up to you. That is the disconnect right now. We did a pendulum and swung way too far the other way and it is just as abusive as it fails to prepare for actual adult life amd sets utterly unrealistic expectations for behavior and treatment. Consequences aren't some multiple choice menu. But again, what happened 40+ years ago is pointless to label because it is iver and done and immutable now. But lessons can be learned. And swinging to a diametric opposite is NOT the lesson. Current generations have a chance to balance the two. And if nothing else this is what GenX should be doing. We're we raised right? No... but we absolutely learned how to adult very well. Did we raise our kids right? Also no... and they haven't really learned the life lessons we did. We should have and could ha e done better to balance tough love without neglect and emotional health needs. We are all victims of our upbringing.
Talk about a mic drop moment!
She nailed it!
And no matter where in the USA we were born and “raised” we ALL had the exact same childhood and are now damn near exact copies of this very lady telling you straight facts!!😅😂. We also have the ability to find any and EVERY situation funny. So come on over with your bad self! We be giving out free reality checks!!
I'm Gen X 1973 June Cancer 🦀 ♋️ model, and I can attest that every situation is definitely Not Funny ! Not all Gen Xers are stone cold psychopaths, some of us have intelligence, empathy, and understanding, and take things that need to be taken seriously. I'm just saying.
1971 here 🙋🏽♀️ and I LOVE my generation!!! When your mama came up to the school to beat your arse in front of the whole class and the teacher and the principal let her! That’s what we working with up in here.
Unfortunately on the flip side my peers of my generation who scraped their knees getting up out the projects or off welfare or food stamps or who’ve been working since they were 15, or who were latchkey kids and generally came up in the struggle turned around and made their kids whiners, punks, crybabies, brats, handed them everything they wanted, got offended at teachers and principals, and raised a generation of entitled weirdo’s…that’s where gen X fell off sadly. We had it so tough we thought we were doing the next generation better by making life easier, less harsh…we are now living the effects of that miscalculation
Remember GenX Parents needed commercials to remind them that they were actually Parents every single night at 10PM
Exactly!! Lol
Facts! It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are? 😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 " do u know where your children are?" 😂😂😂😂😂
Least parented kid.....Me
That's Boomers and Silent Generation, our parents, 🙄
As a Gen X, this is absolutely 💯 correct
"strong black coffee and you're drinking your super mochalaka bullshee" 😂😂😂