Millennials and Gen Zs are raising terrible children.
I know it sounds harsh. But let’s talk about it honestly.
Most millennials like myself were raised by the community.
Neighbors watched you. Family friends corrected you. Any adult on the street could discipline you.
If you misbehaved outside, you got disciplined on the spot. Then you were walked home. And your parents will be angry the adult did not do more.
There was accountability. There were repercussions. There was fear. Not fear of abuse, but fear of shame and consequences for our actions.
You knew someone was always watching. Our parents didn’t even need to be present.
Agree, some of us still turned out really terrible, and made a mess of our lives.
But that system really worked.
It taught respect. It taught boundaries. It taught us accountability. It taught us that the world did not revolve around us.
Now look at how many of us raise kids today.
Teachers are not allowed to discipline children. Neighbors must “mind their business.” Strangers dare not correct bad behavior in public.
Parents now defend bad behavior instead of correcting it. Some even go to schools to fight teachers.
Children bully classmates. Disrespect authority. Disrupt classrooms.
And parents call it “expression” or “trauma” or as Bovi puts it: “my son has anger issues”.
The communal parenting that raised functional adults is gone. In its place is hyper-protective, Gen Z–centric parenting.
What happens to a society where children are never corrected by anyone? I have often wondered.
It's almost that time of year when my wife sits next to me on the sofa and glances at me like I'm a piece of shit. Because of what Alan Rickman did to Emma Thompson in a fictional film, released over 20 years ago.
In the age of him, she wished she was thirty
And made coffee every morning in a French press
Afterwards she only ate kids' cereal
And couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed