@ryanhoulihan You mean all those topics that parents have tried to teach their kids but all they got back was #OKBoomer? That's not parental neglect--that's blockheaded ignorance on the part of Gen Z and Millennials. Get that right, how 'bout.
@ClaraListensprechen4 Hey Clara, I don't want to launch right into the ad-hominems like everyone else did, but I do want to clarify as someone who is a millennial. My parents taught me these things because they noticed that they were no longer being taught in school. However, many of my peers were not. Their parents were checked out on what was going on with their education and they weren't supplementing.
@ClaraListensprechen4 My sister's husband in particular has struggled to learn important life skills on his own because his parents were very checked out and the education system did not teach. My sister has been helping him now, and my parents, try to fill in some of those knowledge gaps of things he had to try to figure out on his own but has struggled to get down correctly.
Finally, I'll address this: "My sister's husband in particular has struggled to learn important life skills on his own because his parents were very checked out and the education system did not teach. "
Among the generation of Boomers are the self-taught, as in spending quality time in a library. What marks GenXers and Millennials as spoild-rotten lame brats is that they demand every bit of knowledge be spoon-fed to them or they throw tantrums.
Boomers not only knew how to teach themselves beyond what any given teacher taught in class but they made discoveries. Can't say the same for the spoon-fed.
None of the whining GenXers or Millennials have stood back, looked at their situation regardless of who was at fault for it, and decide how to move forward from it.
None. All they do is whine and throw tantrums, and well after rejecting any/everything anybody has ever TRIED to teach 'em. As for your sister's husband, he's solving problems, not whining, so he deserves all the kudos he gets. But he's a rare one.
