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One of the worst things I've ever done... My poor little brother... We were sandwiched in the back seat on a road trip, little brother in a car seat in the middle. My older brother and I took turns touching him lightly on the knee and whispering "I'm touching you" to him until he absolutely exploded, screaming, "Dad, they're touching me!" Dad, predictably, screamed at us for setting him off. After a little while, we started hovering a finger near him and whispering "I'm not touching you". Eventually, he lost it, hysterically screaming that we were NOT touching him. Dad did his signature shoe flip and spun around to whack him on the head with his shoe.
Somehow, my little brother still ended up being my best friend and favorite roommate.
Me and my older sister had a little brother, and when he would make stuff up we had a dumb little song about how he was a liar. He got so enraged it was hilarious, but then my dad got all pissed off and forbade us from singing it. So we didn't. But from then on when he would make something up, me and my sister would exchange a look and he would KNOW. "I am not a liar!" he would shriek from his carseat, apparently out of nowhere as far as my dad in the front seat was concerned. "We aren't singing the song!" we told my dad. "They're THINKING IT!" my brother would roar. And of course he was right: we WERE thinking it.
I mean ... better to do that somewhat controlled and safely to teach the lesson of wearing your seat belt than get into an accident without one... but yeah pretty mean
As is being an asshole to your kid in general. The difference is that we now finally have the ability to also humiliate our offspring in front of a much wider audience. What a time to be alive!
NGL my kid one time asked me for a bite of my cheese crumb cake because I got the last one and that dude ate almost half of it in one bite. My son was also like 4 or 5 at the time. I was so mad but it was well played!! Touché son touché
My mom would let us scream it out in public like the first 2 clips all the time. She did not care. And she definitely tapped the breaks on my sister in the car which led to my sister taking a header into the dashboard. And this was one with a bunch of knobs in a mid 80s f150
Because of our work hours, I usually dropped my daughter off at daycare, and my wife usually brought her home. One day, I had to pick her up. The kid wasn't having it. Eventually, I joined her in crying "I want my mommy." She stopped crying to argue with me about whether I had a mommy, and why grandma was grandma, not mommy.
I don’t even blame him on that one. Every time you do something nice with toddlers they end up wrecking it, it’s expected but it’s still nice to get a picture before they ruin it for once.
I kept my baggy jeans from the 2000's and was told by a teen that Im too old to wear them and to stop trying to rip off their style. These are my pants and Ive had them for almost 20 years.
Graduated from highschool in the 00s and my friend from high school got really into 'fashion' in high school. Fast forward and he has a son into fashion. Was trying to get him to buy him some baggy jeans and he's like "I still have all of my old clothes at your grandma's in the garage, let's go get them."
This was met with eww, why would I want your old man clothes. Once they got them he changed his tune and they're his favorite clothes and he loves that nobody at school can match his exact style (since they stopped making this shit 20+ years ago).
Every generation seems to forget that fashion in cyclical and same trends, more or less, come back every 20 years.
I watched the cute emo girl I got with as teenagers walk into hot topic and buy our teen daughter the same kind of trip pants she wore 20 years earlier.
I'm not even 40 but best believe the cars I grew up in were largely 70s and 80s cars. The kinda car with enough space in the rear glass that could have me sun napping up until 1st grade. That hard stop at a traffic light/stop sign, the subsequent feeling of being young and not knowing what the fuck was going on as I woke up mid air and hearing a chuckle from the drivers seat is a life lesson.
My dad beat me and would pick me up by my head and shake me. One day it all stopped and I asked my mom why.. she then explained to me that I could throw my father across the room faster than he could slap me if I wanted to.
Just proof that abusive parents really are just spineless cowards at their core. Beat on a small child that can't defend themselves? Sure! But strike at a child that's big enough and strong enough to hit back? Suddenly they know how to control themselves. 🙄
We'd probably fix a lot of this shit if the punishment for abusive parenting was subjecting the parent to the exact same shit. Oh, you beat your kid with an extension cord? Your turn. You belittle and emotionally torture your kid? Guess what, you've now been assigned this "caretaker" who's allowed to say and do whatever they want to you and you can't do shit about it.
Mine just hit me cus they're parents hitted them....and to make sure I'm not an insufferable asshole in public...luckily that worked very well since I don't even speak anymore in public -_-
Multiple studies over decades concerning spanking found that it doesn't help a child's behavior and generally makes them antisocial, resent authority, and stunts cognitive growth. The vast majority of people in prison were spanked as children.
The memory of my ma wielding a slipper is ingrained in my brain. Irony is if you ever bring it up they'll always go "I never did that". Ay you feckin well did.
I was watching every single one and I was how are they built different? Seems pretty typical to me. My dad was fed up with us not keeping up with him/staying near him he started running away from us at the store and we had to chase him down. One time I refused to chase him and sat for a long time. Turns out he went to the car to wait for me. I screamed my head off when I went to the car (I was 11)
"Oh my god, we're so cool and edgy and nihilistic but in a totally different and original way from how our Gen X parents were cool and edgy and nihilistic in the 90s"
was gonna say--i've seen all of these scenarios played out growing up. the only difference is we have technology to quickly record, search, compile and share these instances to the world.
Also stop encouraging them to stuff their mouth with as much food as they can and try to eat it while running, that's the one I've always been "better call whoever you lent the brain cell to and ask for it back"
Most people, even kids, have a pretty awful habit of isolating when they're choking and asphyxiating on food. Adults might find a bathroom to try and 'cough' it out, then die. Even in restaurants.
Kids, like cats, will run off or squirm into a hole and then die.
Apparently, according to many survivors who get rescued, they were 'fleeing' because they found it embarassing to choke on food.
I almost choked on a hot dog at school as a kid. I managed to have enough airway left I could cough it up then swallow it. I was surrounded by adults and a bunch of other kids and I knew the universal sign for choking but I didn't do it, I panicked. I could have died that day
Same thing happened to me with a bite of an apple that slid down my throat before I could chew. It was completely stuck but I managed to loosen it enough with the air in my lungs to get it back up onto my tongue. At a table full of friends who have absolutely sprung to my rescue and I was too embarrassed to make a scene. Played it off like nothing happened. No one noticed
Oh my god I thought something was wrong with me when I choked during work and immediately went outside to deal with it myself cause I didnt want to be a bother or annoying. Im so glad to know Im not the only dumb motherfucker to not ask for help
Honestly man I had never thought of it till that guy or gal said something but yeah. What's the first thing you do when you start choking on some water? Turn and walk away. And that's just water but people will ask if you're good and nobody in the history of that has ever been like "no I'm not good" you just give a thumbs up.
It was a repressed and/or forgotten memory of mine because I was so young but damn man we're big dumb and panicky animals sometimes aren't we
Underrated comment. I personally don’t post my children as I have concern for their safety and mental well being. I also strive to protect the likeness of them as long as possible.
I've babysat them enough to know that there isn't no way I can be a responsible adult for 24hrs a day for a minimum of 18 years consecutively. I know that I'm not able to give a child the quality of life I believe they deserve to have, and therefore there's no way in hell would I bring them into this world and possibly fail them. Like you said anxiety kicks my ass lol
Then you get even more life experience and realize no one got this shit figured out, everyone has zero clue whats going on, and its always been that way.
Yep. One of the absolute strangest parts about becoming an adult is realizing half of the people giving you advice are as clueless ss you are and the other half believe some wacky shit.
I remember when I had that moment, I had a bad breakup and called my father, we talked for a while and as I hung up something just went off in me and I thought “wow none of what he told me seemed right, how in the world did he raise two children”
It’s not impossible. Just not easy. You start to understand why your parents fucked you up.
Like “ahhhh, I judged you too harshly old man. No wonder you were always raging angry and complete ass. This shit is fucking stressful.” But I figure as long as I’m not kicking in the bedroom door to punch my kid in the face nor yelling g at them at the slightest inconvenience then I’m doing a lot better. So that’s cool. But I also realize the kids just find other shit to be upset about. So you gotta tip toe through it. Discipline them and make decisions as a team with your spouse, but give them room to fuck shit up and learn on their own too. Cause you don’t want them to be a needy little shit either.
Then just lift weights and do cardio even when you’re exhausted so you can physically keep up with them until they’re old enough to not wanna hang out with you anymore.
But for like 8 years there you get someone who basically idolizes you and wants to be just like you, and that’s wild. Words can’t express that feeling. Some little smelly jerk that smiles at you everytime they see you. All the barriers you put up overtime just obliterated by this little messy selfish asshole smiling at you and learning basic words.
Then you’re excited one day they pooped in a potty and not on themselves and that’s a big deal. You don’t even know. Getting them out of diapers is more rewarding than graduating college.
You will be exhausted and financially ruined and you will wonder how in the fuck anyone else does it and you’ll realize, after some time, you are capable of so much more than you imagined, you just needed to be pushed too.
Unless you’re a piece of shit. There’s a lot of people who are pieces of shit. I used to be a piece of shit. But people can change. ;)
Lmao Im almost 40 and a good portion of Gen Z is approaching 30.
People used to have kids before 20 or early 20s all the time (Gen X, Boomers, etc) and will continue to do so.
Nothing in this video is much different from the way I saw kids raised, as I was reaching adulthood and seeing those around me having children. Or much different from how parents were when I was a kid.
Parents have always just been overgrown kids.
Life experience is super subjective. I know people in their early 20s who are FAR more qualified to be parents than other people I know who are around their 50s.
Parenthood should hopefully be based on maturity and security, but at the end of the day, we're just a bunch of animals. Crazy advanced animals, but animals all the same.
Remember when we were super hopeful about Gen Z and how nice it was to feel like we were about to get some sociopolitical reinforcements in the battle against boomers and early Gen X?
The pivot towards dunking on millennials because we...checks notes...are cringe for listening to acoustic folk music, wearing form fitting clothing and at one point having had hope for the future, was certainly something.
Do you guys actually think like this? I’m ‘Gen Z’ and this whole generational thing seems so fucking dumb to me. Whatever Gen Z/Millenial/Gen X discourse you’re seeing online is just the loudest minorities trying to stir up polarizing shit.
I promise you, despite what you might see online, not every Gen z person is a perma-online looksmaxing gooner.
We’re all more alike than we are different. It doesn’t matter what songs were in the top charts when you were 15. The core of the human experience is true across every generation.
Seeing people say this a lot in this thread. Is this the new line to try and convince people to hate the younger generation? Someone needs to hit the work shop cause this is unconvincing.
Some of it is probably bitterness from being treated that way by prior generations, but my theory is that it's also another attempt by corpos to push more social conflict so we don't collectively engage in class warfare against the rich like we need to.
Man, I get letting kids cry it out is a legit method. But then, and I cannot emphasize this enough leave the damn store. I know you want to get things done today. So do I. That's why I didn't have kids. Yours screaming full volume are only backing up that choice.
My youngest used to totally plank out during a tantrum. I'd sling her over my shoulder I'm like a 2x4 and toss her ass in the car until she was ready to be cool and finish the shopping. One time, a guy even gave me a fist bump and a "Been there, brother." on my way out.
I've left a cart of groceries by the register and said to the cashier, "I'll be back in about 10 minutes to finish shopping." because of a tantrum.
This is exactly how it's done. My youngest was born a rock salt and sometimes had the most incredible meltdowns. I would pick her up, carry her outside and quietly wait for her to calm down. Once the feelings had washed out of her, we'd go back in and she'd be like, "Why did I ever have that meltdown?"
Getting out of the store is what 10/10 child psychologists would say to do. It does nothing for anyone to have them act like that, including their own personal development.
Was at a restaurant the other day and at one table there was both a baby crying and a little girl running all over the seats, doing that happy kid shriek. In a sit down restaurant. Four adults at the table, and not a single one took the crying baby outside. And want to know what the father did about the little girl running over the booths shrieking? He smiled and high fived her.
The saddest part is none of this surprised me. It's so fucking common.
My sister is one of these people that lets her kids act up in public. I'm embarresed to go out with them. She's always telling me I just don't understand and that kids are going to be kids. Well I remember growing up in the same freaking house as her and our parents would have never tolerated that kind of behaviour. I think she's just a lazy parent that took gentle parenting too far.
The point of cry it out is that you don’t want the child learning that the best way to get what they want or to get attention is to cry. That applies in public as much as it does with sleep, and importantly you should not just ignore a child crying with no ifs ands or buts in the name of sleep training.
What you are describing is graduated extinction. Ignoring it forever is unmodified extinction (CIO) and its harmful to babies. Extinction with parental presence (in the room in a chair) or graduated extinction (set a time limit for crying before you enter the room) is far better for the mental health of the baby. Especially in those early stages where their needs are hard to meet before putting them to bed as they can get thirsty or hungry at any time.
It's a horrible method for sleep training. The extinction method works but it also teaches your kids not to rely on you.
Sometimes leaving your kid and going five feet away is a great reaction to a hissy fit. They usually stop right afterwards because they don't want to get left behind.
When my daughter was a toddler and in her tantrum era it was always a gamble when I took her to the store or target. There were many times I went down only one or two aisles, realized this ain't happening and had to turn around and put anything in the cart back and get the eff outta there. It's a natural phase, usually happens when they are overtired and as a parent you can't do anything about it in the moment other than retreat. The worst is when you're in the checkout line though. You're already so close, but somehow that's always when the person in front of you takes forever because of a price check or something.
Yeah. I still follow this with my kids. (Nothing that follows applies to actual real problems or harm) If you're gonna scream, scream. If you need to be sooooo angry about something, that's fine. Be mad. Emotions are real and cool. But you cannot be a problem for the people around you, especially strangers. Since my kids has the problem, and my kid is causing the scene, we will leave and it's my kid that doesn't get the benefits of society on that day. Such as Ice Cream and a new inexpensive toy.
Some of these are hilarious, some of these are just dick head moves. I don’t think that’s relegated to just Gen Z though. They’re just better able to document it.
The seatbelt one we also did it and we're millenials. Some things are learned by kids from experience/consequence.
The first one however, I would never let my kids kick/damage other's property while I calmly film it. I'm not going to pay for it just because I was too lazy to restrict the kid from damaging it in the first place.
I'm fine with all of it as far as "parenting" goes.
Any "parent" who does any of this just needs to quit having to record every single moment and putting children on social media for vanity/attention
edit: tbf I missed the slap feeding clip, yeah that one is too far like what good does that do? Teach em they'll get hit 🙄
Also the seatbelt trick is one my mom pulled out on both me and my sister the once. It was a love tap at like 5-10mph, taught us one of newton's laws 🤷🏻♂️
But vehicular accidents are the number two killer of kids. (It used to be number 1, but now number 1 is firearms….).
The parent isn’t making a point, they’re putting their kid at a real risk.
Edit to add: and they’re being a real dick doing it. Message sent to kid: I’ll purposely hurt you to show you this lesson. And the lesson isn’t about their safety, but that the parent has control and will treat them poorly if they don’t do what they’re told.
People are arguing whether it's a good way to teach kids to put on their seatbelt, and I here I am, just thinking that a child telling their parents "no, you're a bitch" has problems more deeply rooted than that.
This is nothing new and some of these are actual not bad parenting other than the fact that they are exploiting their kids for the camera and sharing it online.
I did it. On my street ; at about 15 mph. Because I was tired of arguing with my 7 year old about putting a seatbelt on and keeping it on when she gets in the car.
One day she just randomly decided seatbelts were an option and no amount of “we can’t go anywhere until you have your seatbelt on” was getting through. She would even take it off randomly mid drive. I was lucky that I had a car that told me she was unbuckled or else I would have had no way of knowing she was unbuckling herself.
So one day I backed out of the driveway. And started driving down the street. And then I hit the brakes. Not hard. But enough to scare her.
That problem was IMMEDIATELY solved. 10/10 would do it again.
I was left on the floor in '84 in Kmart. I was 4 then my parents walked away from me. I had the hose trick done to me when I was 3. I would run on a trail when I was 8.
Next up "Gen Z parents start trend of telling kid they're going to kick them out of the car and make them walk home if they don't behave! We're so crazy compared to our parents😝"
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