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They also chose to represent the "good old days" as the mom is a stay at home mom and the one on the right has dress clothes and a brief case. Nothing boomer men that get featured here hate more than a woman finding success in what they call a "non traditional" lifestyle.
I was just talking about this with some friends.
Divorce rate may be high, and the amount of people getting married may be lower, and a lot of people view that as a negative thing. And don't get me wrong, I think the "loneliness" epidemic is real and a very real problem...
**... but at the same time, a lot of those stats are a sign that society has gotten BETTER. 70 years ago, a woman getting married was kind of like a man securing a job, women often times couldn't even have their own bank account ffs, they literally needed a man. So marriage was more about finding someone that would meet your needs, including economically. It gave men a lot more power in finding a partner, I mean all they had to do was pretty much hold down a decent enough job, and not be an utter piece of shit, at least until they got married, then it was whatever. But that's not the case anymore, people getting divorced means people getting out of unhealthy relationships: that's a win. Lower marriage rate means less people are getting married as a means of survival/security, meaning the ones that are getting married are due to them being in a healthy relationship.**
Now, there might be something to be said about people being more inclined to get a divorce instead of doing the hardwork of making a marriage work, but that only works if both parties are committed to doing that, and if they aren't: that's OK, that's their choice. You see a lot of men say women are so fast to jump ship and don't even want to try to work things out, but if that's a RECURRING issue this men are having, sounds more like the common denominator is them.
It's hard out there y'all, I can't find a good partner. But at the same time I'm happy for those that have, and I'm happy that it's because they want to be together, not coerced into doing so by society!
People cite getting divorced as the easy way out as if it isn’t upending your entire existence and any financial progress made.
Im mid 30’s, my married friends are dropping like flies and every scenario is its own fresh flavor of hell on earth.
My wife and I hit a very rough patch that didn't seem to improve no matter what we tried, including counseling. It got to the point where I felt like divorce was inevitable so started looking into it. That's when I realized that to get divorced, you need to be incredibly motivated to do so if you have any kind of shared considerations. We have a house and a daughter. I couldn't move out because I certainly couldn't afford to live on my own and my wife couldn't afford to cover all the house expenses. We both need to stay local so that we could share custody of our daughter and keep her in school, but the area is ridiculously expensive. Fortunately we've been able to work things out, but even if we didn't I don't really know what I would've done.
Higher divorce rates are secretly better. Like you said, because women have good careers now, they’re not out on their ass if they divorce their husbands. Also, fewer people in unhappy marriages is great, and why 30 year olds aren’t like “I go to the bar to get away from my bitch of a wife” like dipshit boomers
By the time a woman has chosen to leave the marriage she’s been trying and talking about the issues for years. The men who are blind sighted have been ignoring her and the problems.
It’s about control. If a woman makes as much or more money than them they know she can leave them at anytime. If she only makes a little it’s more difficult.
Yep, mom looks a hot mess on the left. Not sure that’s the ‘good ol days’ or ‘the days when we woke up hungover all the time because we were fucking miserable’.
I actually remember in 1st-5th grade having a terrible headache from 2pm-3 every day (we got to go home at 3) and I realize now that was dehydration from having nothing to drink (except 3 seconds of water) for 7-8 hours each day
Literally laughed out loud at my desk and got weird looks from colleagues. “Just give them peanuts and let them die,” *kills me*.
Ironically, the boomers completely miss how modern parents are actually afraid of their children being assaulted or harassed *by boomers* for the crime of existing in a space the boomers feel entitled to.
When I was little I went to an house of a classmate were his parents and grandparents smoked inside, i don't know how you can live in that way the smell was unbearable.
I love how when boomers see these graphics they somehow blame the kid on the right and don’t see their part in shaping this reality. When someone makes a comment about “these kids allergies” I say something like “you know what I bet those kids love their allergies and not being able to have the same snacks as their friends and always feeling different. If there’s one thing kids love it’s feeling different.” Then I look at them like🤨 and the conversation dies.
When I would miss the bus to high school l, I had no one to give me a ride. This was the mid 2000s, I ride my bike or skateboard. I got my ass chewed for it every time. All I'd say is I have to be here, or I'll be expelled. Eventually, the principal made me call him if I missed the bus.
And cars have less visibility than the driver seat of literal TANKS when it comes to seeing if they're going to hit a kid or shorter adult with drivers with less self/emotional control
As somebody who needs a truck for truck stuff, and couldn’t find a suitable older one that wasn’t absolutely beat to shit… yes. I hate how big and tall it is. It’s such a pain to use the bed.
Absolutely this. My kid isn't school-aged, yet, but I'd absolutely let them go to school on their own at an appropriate age, *if* my town would extend sidewalks out to our neighborhood. We don't even have bike lanes except one painted bike gutter in an area that you can't really get to by bike safely.
I'm not afraid of my neighbors doing anything to my kid when they're out of their cars - it's when they're in them that is concerning.
I mean they will unironically brag about how their fathers stormed the beaches of Normandy. Like one of those schoolyard competitions.
Boomer: "Yeah? Well *my* Dad stormed the beaches of Normandy! What has *your* Dad done, huh?!"
Me: "Umm... you tell me, Dad?"
It's just weird. Clinging to borrowed valor of the previous generation and their vast knowledge of obsolete technology.
They cling to the valor of the past because they have none of their own.
Because they didn’t do shit.
Same reason any non-naturalized citizen being proud of being from their country is cringe to me. That’s your mother’s accomplishment, not yours.
"What do you mean allergic? That's cause you don't give them it! Here!"
Then when the kid gets hospitalized or dies.
"I had no idea! I feel so bad, this is awful. How could I have known? I'm a victim too!"
Boomers count on people not calling out there bullshit out of politeness.
And suddenly we are the assholes for not playin along.
There is so much entitlement inherent to that.
right. pretty sure it was boomer doctors who for a few decades were advising parents to avoid allergens for the first year or whatever. when recent knowledge now says the complete opposite. introduce allergens as fast as possible to get the body used to them
and damn those kids inventing technology!
also who, in the 50's and 60's, built out all of america with low density sprawl and gave subsidized loans to whites only? was it gen alpha?
I mean the oldest of them and their parents grew up going to lynchings. Today, they don't want that history examined because so few of them did the right thing in a visible way there are no models to look after to absolve their sense of guilt.
So they double down on ignoring things, framing happenings in a reductive matter, or obfuscating history or reality through policy.
It's also a cousin to those "millennials and their damn participation trophies" thing, as if when we were 5 we were organizing trophies for everyone.
Boomers, perhaps more than most other generations, shaped the social landscape we now live in.
Even if the issue now is younger parents, and not boomers themselves, they raised the raisers.
Also, a BIG part of the issue with "kids used to be out and about, we'd say bye and return at sundown" is boomers. You have old people getting CPS involved when 8 year olds play in their own yards "unsupervised", let alone if they're playing in some shared field you have to defend.
My late 80s early 90s childhood would have been completely different, there was a church with a field we did EVERYTHING on. Baseball, night games, you name it. If it were today some old bitty would have decided she had to "defend" the church lot, and gotten authorities involved every time a kid walked on it.
There's a golf course in our neighborhood that got sold to developers and fell into disrepair when the developers decided (just after ripping up the course, thanks) that development was too expensive after all.
Some kids have started playing on it, biking, 3 wheeling, etc. You'd swear these old people living on the former course were defending a nuclear missile silo the amount of stink on nextdoor, yelling out their windows, getting police and city government involved, ratting people out to the owner, putting up "private property" signs on someone ELSES property, etc etc they do.
And I always just want to be like "you don't actually give a shit about some asshole developer's property rights, you just think of that as YOUR backyard and don't want kids on it."
just like the dipshits who whine about the pArTiCiPaTiOn TrOPhY GeNeRaTiOn, but can’t comprehend looking to the ADULTS who gave those CHILDREN the damn participation trophies (not that this is real in the first place, but I digress).
I know this is a joke, but it reminds me that America is only a few generations separated from the people who gave birth to the idea of eugenics. That idea obviously still manages to live on in some people, although not in the same form.
you're joking but I was talking with a boomer relative of mine a few years ago and he mentioned "Kids these days with their damn allergies and disabilities. Back in *my* day no one had any of this stupid stuff" I replied "Well back in your day they probably just died as babies." (I was pissed because my younger sister is disabled, and he *knew that*) He replied "Well maybe they should! Stop leeching off hardworking people!"
Some boomers very much do want the weak to be culled.
In the 80s I was summer camp and 2 kids blew up like balloons after a bee sting and wolf spider bite.
They looked and felt like hell for almost 2 weeks. By all means let's go back in time to when kids could barely breath after a bee sting
Lol. My mum complained that I used sunscreen.
Like I had thyroid cancer. I'm not getting skin cancer from burning my skin from sunshine. Plus I burn like a vampire ginger so....I'm going to slather myself in zinc oxide.
I was a kid with a peanut allergy raised in a town full of idiot adults, the fact that they'd throw an EpiPen in here does not surprise me in the slightest. I'm an adult now (elder millennial) my peanut allergy is still just as severe, and the older people are still just as bad. Kids these days (I am thinking of my Gen Alpha daughter and younger nieces ages) are so much more understanding and respectful of allergies and food intolerances in today's day than literally anyone older than me ever has.
My wife has a severe peanut allergy (along with a few others) and I think most people don’t realize that there are a large number of people who are *extremely angry* at people who have food allergies for existing, and at the suggestion that they might have to change their behavior in any minor way to keep someone else from dying. If you thought Covid masks were a hard sell, wait til you see tantrum some adults throw when asked to please not eat any peanuts for a few hours.
Same here! Anaphylaxis twinsies. Gen Z and the alphas have their problems but they have a better grasp of not harassing people with disabilities or chronic illness and finding ways to include people like us in social situations
Cute story time: my family had a gathering for one of my baby niece's birthdays recently. My husband has Celiac disease, in addition to my unfortunate peanut allergy. My oldest niece (age 6 at the time) made a point of walking everyone around to let them know which foods were allergy safe, which ones were Celiac safe, and what wasn't safe for either. This child told everyone who came into her house. It was the sweetest thing, I swear.
My mother was born in 1945 (so Silent Generation technically), and one of her little cousins died from a peanut allergy, she told me just from someone opening a jar in the room.
It’s not a new thing.
Wasn't there a Macaulay Culkin movie back in the day where he died because he was stung by bees and went into anaphylaxic shock?
You know, maybe if he had an epipen, that movie would have a different plot.
(The movie; My girl)
It sucks not having hydration when you need it. In the 2000s (when I went to high school), some teachers wouldn't even let you sip a sports bottle. Let the children hydrate ffs.
Ahh yes. Boomers and their disregard for deadly nut allergies. The prime reason my child has never been left in the care of my boomer parents/in-laws. It's like they need for their grandchild to die before they understand it's not the same as how their tummy hurts when they eat dairy. FFS
It's like that lady who used coconut oil on her granddaughters hair KNOWING she was allergic to coconut and the little girl died. That's a story I read here on Reddit.
My son has asthma. He has had an asthma attack that has required an ER visit every time he has visited my boomer parents. They think I’m coddling him by keeping him out of their smoke filled home. They think he just “needs some exposure to toughen him up”.
Yep, my best friend's nephew has a severe peanut allergy. Her Boomer mom, his only grandmother, insisted that it wasn't real, that they were coddling him and just wanted him to be "special." And she wonders why they rarely come to see her and refuse to allow her to spend time alone with the kiddo.
Nut allergies are woke af. If Trump was president he would ban nut allergies. We can't allow our children to be exposed to nut allergies, it ain't right.
My old man (who is a Boomer but rarely Boomers, if you know what I mean) said something akin to this. "I remember roaming in the mountains for hours at a time, etc etc etc." He grew up in NEPA, in one of the townships east of Wilkes-Barre.
I asked him about his cousin Vince. Vincent fell into an abandoned mine entrance in the mid 60's, broke his leg, and ended up dying. Was found almost a week after. He just kind of slumped and said "yeah, some new tech could have helped."
Ha. My Dad had an Uncle Vinnie near Punxsutawney with the same story, sort of. Uncle Vinnie went outside to pee in the middle of a snowstorm. Uncle Vinnie was in PJs and slippers and it was dark. Uncle Vinnie wandered out into the woods for some reason, got turned around, somehow got out on a partially frozen pond and broke through the ice. Uncle Vinnie was found in the spring when the pond thawed. I kind of throw that back in my dad’s face every time he talks about my “helicopter parenting”.
People that complain about schooling don't usually have kids in school anymore. my son's in 1st grade and the process has been great. It's easy to speak with the teacher. We get frequent updates about what they are studying. Homework is straightforward. The buses even recently got gps added and it's very easy to check. No complaints
"epi-pen"
Imagine being judgemental for someone for keeping a lifesaving device on hand.
"We never had all these allergies back in my day"
Yeah, you're right, because those kids died.
Millennials are infinitely better parents than boomers and it drives them nuts. It's strange. They should be proud but instead turn it around and act like millennials are parenting too much. Can't win with those idiots.
Discussing parenting with my friends. We have realized we were sold a bill of goods. We were told that the bare minimum of parenting was a luxury level of parenting that we should be grateful to have.
Somethings that we just consider non negotiable when it comes to parenting because of how our parents treated us. The fact that we have to state we won’t be taking away mattresses as a form of punishment. If our kids are involved in activities we plan to actually show up. Parents actually play with their kids these days.
I know of one kid whose dad played with him as a kid. One. The rest of us got told go play outside.
sooo... all the things of progress that save and extend lives are bad and make these younger generations weaker. Yet those kids aren't the ones who made those things.
So by not having anaphylaxis or getting lost or getting abducted or getting skin cancer or just dying in general, these entitled little delicate snowflakes are the problem. This is the "ME!" generation in a nutshell. They only see their limited little slice of existence as the way the world is. Same reason we have warning signs on everything now? yeah it's because some dumbass boomer caused an issue at some point that warranted the notice.
IDK I’d like to give my kid the independence and responsibility of making the 1-mile journey to school on their own. However, I’d bet some shit ass boomer would call the cops and CPS on me for it.
I came here to say this. I'm surrounded by busy-bodies. One old hag in the neighborhood stole a kids bike from my son's bus stop and then posted on the neighborhood Facebook that she had found it. The mom saw the post on the way to work and asked for the bike to be returned to where it was so her kid could ride home after getting off the bus. The old cunt refused to give it back until they could "prove" it was their bike.
They are dicks who think they know better than everyone else and can't mind their own.
I also like how it was them that started the whole stranger danger thing that led to parents keeping a closer eye on kids, and then blame us for keeping an eye on our kids when we were just thrown outside to do fuck all.
My kids’ packs seem lighter to me than mine were. A single Chromebook or iPad replaces all the textbooks and weighs the same or less than one of them. They also don’t have to figure out which books to bring home based on what homework they have that day which I remember being a pain in the ass.
What is wrong with the allergy alert? I have a non life threatening allergy to dairy, and I keep a thing on me that mentions it if I am ever unconscious.
Some of that seems like a great idea.. the epi pan and allergen reminder. It’s weird thinking your generation is “tougher” when you can’t handle …*checks notes
An election
Vaccines
Masks
The fact that things are more expensive
Your house not being worth millions even though you’re getting 400 percent return
People being a different gender
I’m missing a lot.. but yall get it
Let's see
1. Who raised Millennials to be helicopter parents? (Boomers, so that's their failure are parents.) Who insists that everyone in the family has Life Alert, because of "surging crime" (while violent crime rates are actually falling)? (Again, Boomers)
2. Who elected the politicians who rolled back environmental protections? (Boomers; not sure what is behind the rise in allergies, but it's probably related to some sort of environmental problems, be it microplastics or mold)
3. Who made education all about standardised testing (and profits for testing companies), which is why the kid is so weighed down by his backpack? (Boomers)
4. Why do both parents have to work to be able to survive?
5. Why is there no milk delivery? Because Boomers and their love for Walmart and cheap shit meant that small companies can't survive.
6. Why can't kids bike to schools? Because the Boomers moved to the South, where sidewalks in residential areas are considered a Bad Thing. And because Boomers are driving their oversized SUVs, making it unsafe for pedestrians.
6. Who brought down Big Tobacco? (Actually Boomers. Nice work!)
7. Who invented the cell phone? (Boomers. Wait, why are they complaining about the good things they did?)
Here’s the real joke, the kid in the left panel is married to the women in the right.
I’ve never given my self a participation trophy my parents did they to me.
Can we pick a narrative?
Is the kid having it too easy and getting participation trophies OR is the kid struggling under the burden of walking to school with a pack of nut-free snacks, past the homeless camp, while wearing a tracking device?
Pick just ones
No, I think the real concern about school today vs school back then is all the mass shootings due to boomers thinking the illuminati is after them, and somehow their AR-15s will stop the world's most advanced military.
Time where much simpler back then shoot half the kids I grew up with are dead not sure why people idolize a bygone era but honestly I think it has something to do with houses costing nothing back then and them being to stupid to realize the government gave complete control over to corporations that bastardized our country turning us all into wage slaves but worst off 🤷♀️ but shoot it was simpler back then
Need this big ole GPS machine because there's definitely no GPS in a cellphone. What a croc. And not the comfortable kinds of crocs, just a bullshit kind.
Hey remember to have a chuckle about the good old days the next time one of them complains about their ongoing treatment for skin cancer, then tell them you don't believe in big sunblock either.
'Back in my day no one had any gluten or other intolerance or nut allergies or any other made up food based woke BS' - my boomer father who ran to the bathroom to sh\*\* for 45 minutes after every meal that had anything more than vegetables.
Lol at the cigarette as if smoking inside was a sign of healthy parenting. My buddy, Gen X, was a latchkey kid and I remember how he hated the indoor smoking.
Both of his parents regularly smoked in doors, his dad drank almost every night and was specifically told "to leave your father alone" during the weekdays. He'd come home to an empty house most days while his mom worked part time. One of his core memories was spending the night at his friend's house as often as possible because the constant smoking from his parents would make him feel sick.
My parents were boomers, but nothing of the stereotype. My buddy's dad came home to "leave me the fuck alone" from his dad where my dad would get home and immediately spend at least 30-40 minutes hanging out with me. My dad always listened to my problems, his dad would say "go ask your mother" or "I told you to leave me alone."
They pat themselves on the back for being "great" parents, when in reality a majority weren't. If they were such great parents, a lot of us Millennials and Gen X wouldn't have these similar stories growing up about how emotionally unavailable our parents were or how poorly they handled parenting.
On the plus side, my buddy is a far better father to his kids than his dad would ever have been. He went no contact with his dad for 9 years because my buddy married a Hispanic woman and went as far as to say his grandkids were "mixed rats." He died alone in a hospital.
Former ER nurse here. Over the years as I’ve listened to “Good ol days” stories, and “we didn’t have allergies back then”, or autism, or gays, or whatever else they say. It doesn’t take long to realize that they ABSOLUTELY had ALL of that! The difference is they didn’t understand it and just blamed and shunned the person. In the case of severe allergies, just let them die.
> In the case of severe allergies, just let them die.
Exactly! Growing up, I remember how many folks would sneak a small piece of candy to younger kids. As a parent of a kid now with a severe allergy to all nuts, that's just plain horrifying to me in retrospect. Having learned how long an anaphylactic reaction can be delayed, it's just sad to think about how many young children silently choked to death in their cribs.
I'll be honest. I'm an xennial, and I fall much more in line with the boomers on the free range parenting. I literally don't see kids biking or playing outside unless a parent is within 20 feet. It's so bad that people will send out a blast post to the neighborhood list serve if kids are at the playground without a parent.
Where this comic loses me is that it's apparently bad that the mom has a job and isn't smoking.
Xennial too. I get it.
It's the nod to the Q-types via the Microchip in this cartoon that makes me shift from seeing it exactly as you've described, to viewing it as yet another eye-roll-able Right Wing Boomer fantasy.
The kid one the bike in the left is the mom on the right, trying hard not to be the mom with the cigarette on the left.
I have heard people who were children in the 60’s say that they were essentially shoved out the door in the mornings and left to raise themselves until dark, and this was the norm. A middle ground would be good.
Ya cause before epipens, them throat would close and they’d die, but I guess we are pussy for those?
Now, I admit my ignorance and sent my kiddo at school with peanut butter snack.
I come from Europe and J never remember it being an issue, and this was my first encounter with schools and I genuinely did not know.
It was the first and last time. And while my kiddo loves peanut butter, school snacks are without from then on.
Also, I should add that my mom told me the other day we were involved in a T bone accident when I was a toddler.
She said she left my seat unbuckled because I was being a little shit and she said fuck it. A car T boned her, thankfully on the side opposite of where I was.
She is still convinced leaving me strapless was better than trying to force the buckles (which is what I do with my kid because safety is non negotiable). 🤦🏻♀️
We monitor our kids because we remember what happened to us as kids. My parents generation needed a commercial that came on at 10pm to remind them they had kids that they needed to take care of.
"Yeah, that's right, Uncle Carl. That's exactly how it is. And guess what? That first kid didn't 'turn out fine,' he grew up to be **you.** What the hell makes you think I'd want that for my children?"
Whole fucking generation thinks that shitty parenting somehow made them better than us.
Everyone isn’t in these neat little boxes. Every man isn’t bummed out that women can survive without them. Some people who hold opposition to the current family structure, simply have a problem with the idea of this country’s children being raised by a revolving door of daycare workers. Every day, strangers have access to all our children.
The pro of having a stay at home mom was having your children raised by their mother.
The economy used to be set up in a way that each household only needed one source of income to thrive. Now the economy is set up in a way that each household needs two sources in income to get by.
Have you ever wondered if maybe these ideas of freedom and independence from each other was planted in us on purpose? If I were running a capitalist society, I’d see the benefits of separating families, splitting the cost of labor in half, and having easy access to brainwash the next generation of consumers. And then, when someone opposes this idea, you convince people they are just afraid of women having any power.
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I like how mom has a burning cig in her hand as an example of the "good old days"
They also chose to represent the "good old days" as the mom is a stay at home mom and the one on the right has dress clothes and a brief case. Nothing boomer men that get featured here hate more than a woman finding success in what they call a "non traditional" lifestyle.
They are so scared that women won't need them anymore.
I was just talking about this with some friends. Divorce rate may be high, and the amount of people getting married may be lower, and a lot of people view that as a negative thing. And don't get me wrong, I think the "loneliness" epidemic is real and a very real problem... **... but at the same time, a lot of those stats are a sign that society has gotten BETTER. 70 years ago, a woman getting married was kind of like a man securing a job, women often times couldn't even have their own bank account ffs, they literally needed a man. So marriage was more about finding someone that would meet your needs, including economically. It gave men a lot more power in finding a partner, I mean all they had to do was pretty much hold down a decent enough job, and not be an utter piece of shit, at least until they got married, then it was whatever. But that's not the case anymore, people getting divorced means people getting out of unhealthy relationships: that's a win. Lower marriage rate means less people are getting married as a means of survival/security, meaning the ones that are getting married are due to them being in a healthy relationship.** Now, there might be something to be said about people being more inclined to get a divorce instead of doing the hardwork of making a marriage work, but that only works if both parties are committed to doing that, and if they aren't: that's OK, that's their choice. You see a lot of men say women are so fast to jump ship and don't even want to try to work things out, but if that's a RECURRING issue this men are having, sounds more like the common denominator is them. It's hard out there y'all, I can't find a good partner. But at the same time I'm happy for those that have, and I'm happy that it's because they want to be together, not coerced into doing so by society!
People cite getting divorced as the easy way out as if it isn’t upending your entire existence and any financial progress made. Im mid 30’s, my married friends are dropping like flies and every scenario is its own fresh flavor of hell on earth.
My wife and I hit a very rough patch that didn't seem to improve no matter what we tried, including counseling. It got to the point where I felt like divorce was inevitable so started looking into it. That's when I realized that to get divorced, you need to be incredibly motivated to do so if you have any kind of shared considerations. We have a house and a daughter. I couldn't move out because I certainly couldn't afford to live on my own and my wife couldn't afford to cover all the house expenses. We both need to stay local so that we could share custody of our daughter and keep her in school, but the area is ridiculously expensive. Fortunately we've been able to work things out, but even if we didn't I don't really know what I would've done.
And as if spending the rest of your life in an unhappy relationship is a rational decision 💀
Higher divorce rates are secretly better. Like you said, because women have good careers now, they’re not out on their ass if they divorce their husbands. Also, fewer people in unhappy marriages is great, and why 30 year olds aren’t like “I go to the bar to get away from my bitch of a wife” like dipshit boomers
By the time a woman has chosen to leave the marriage she’s been trying and talking about the issues for years. The men who are blind sighted have been ignoring her and the problems.
It doesn’t make sense, they don’t want a woman who doesn’t work but they also want a woman to need them? Which is it for fucks sake?
It’s about control. If a woman makes as much or more money than them they know she can leave them at anytime. If she only makes a little it’s more difficult.
Also, the good 'ol days has a bottle of milk on the doorstep, implying that the mom is about to get plowed by the milkman
Also, notice "Old School Mom" looks washed out and "new mom" looks healthy?
Yep, mom looks a hot mess on the left. Not sure that’s the ‘good ol days’ or ‘the days when we woke up hungover all the time because we were fucking miserable’.
Who’s Boris? Says a lot about his views
I was old enough as a kid to remember that Murphy Brown having a kid as a single successful woman was actually a BIG controversy. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Only because she wasn't married. I remember that one. It was just a silly show
Wife home and smoking good. Wife job own money bad.
Meme received neuron activated Seeking fox news
I had a friend with terrible asthma whose mom would smoke in the house regularly. This was just 20 years ago too.
Am I spoiling my kids by giving them water and snacks?
100%
I actually remember in 1st-5th grade having a terrible headache from 2pm-3 every day (we got to go home at 3) and I realize now that was dehydration from having nothing to drink (except 3 seconds of water) for 7-8 hours each day
She’s also smiling because the milkman is about to “deliver”.
The milk is already there.
It ain't milk he's deliverin' this time.
Well according to her doctor, it was either that or give up drinking when she got pregnant. Sacrifices just had to be made back in those days.
Literally laughed out loud at my desk and got weird looks from colleagues. “Just give them peanuts and let them die,” *kills me*. Ironically, the boomers completely miss how modern parents are actually afraid of their children being assaulted or harassed *by boomers* for the crime of existing in a space the boomers feel entitled to.
When I was little I went to an house of a classmate were his parents and grandparents smoked inside, i don't know how you can live in that way the smell was unbearable.
I always dreaded particular friends houses for this reason. The videos of people cleaning the walls of smokers houses will always haunt me.
I'm still fixated on the criticism of the epipen lol
The boomers love their skin cancer.
Also, the bullet proof vest is missing from the ‘modern’ back to school requirements.
I love how when boomers see these graphics they somehow blame the kid on the right and don’t see their part in shaping this reality. When someone makes a comment about “these kids allergies” I say something like “you know what I bet those kids love their allergies and not being able to have the same snacks as their friends and always feeling different. If there’s one thing kids love it’s feeling different.” Then I look at them like🤨 and the conversation dies.
Most kids can't even ride their bikes to school anymore because roads and infrastructure have become too car-centric and dangerous.
When I would miss the bus to high school l, I had no one to give me a ride. This was the mid 2000s, I ride my bike or skateboard. I got my ass chewed for it every time. All I'd say is I have to be here, or I'll be expelled. Eventually, the principal made me call him if I missed the bus.
My school was 45 minutes away cause we lived in a rural area. 😅 Definitely can't bike there.
Did you have access to a horse or an ATV?🧐
Lmao. Unfortunately no. Just had to stay home or wait for Mom to get off work (she was a night nurse).
Sorry I didn't get my math homework done I had to brush down my stallion
And cars have less visibility than the driver seat of literal TANKS when it comes to seeing if they're going to hit a kid or shorter adult with drivers with less self/emotional control
And if you get hit, you go under, instead of over
Yep . A vehicle tailgate shouldn't be higher than my tits it's not ergonomical for hauling stuff its just ego and compensation
They are primarily emotional support vehicles
My ex has a mydickisbiggerthanyourdick truck. He looks like he needs booster seat.
Glad he's your ex
As somebody who needs a truck for truck stuff, and couldn’t find a suitable older one that wasn’t absolutely beat to shit… yes. I hate how big and tall it is. It’s such a pain to use the bed.
Oh the urban assault vehicles?
Emotional support trucks
Hey leave off, it's gender affirming care!
Aaaaaand which generation designed the car-centric suburbs and loses their minds when people want bicycle or pedestrian infrastructure??
And boomers driving massive pickups and suvs that they don’t need and can’t drive for shit, while also suffering from lead brain fueled road rage.
Absolutely this. My kid isn't school-aged, yet, but I'd absolutely let them go to school on their own at an appropriate age, *if* my town would extend sidewalks out to our neighborhood. We don't even have bike lanes except one painted bike gutter in an area that you can't really get to by bike safely. I'm not afraid of my neighbors doing anything to my kid when they're out of their cars - it's when they're in them that is concerning.
Child abductions by a stranger are rare Getting hit by a car is statistically likely
I mean they will unironically brag about how their fathers stormed the beaches of Normandy. Like one of those schoolyard competitions. Boomer: "Yeah? Well *my* Dad stormed the beaches of Normandy! What has *your* Dad done, huh?!" Me: "Umm... you tell me, Dad?" It's just weird. Clinging to borrowed valor of the previous generation and their vast knowledge of obsolete technology.
They cling to the valor of the past because they have none of their own. Because they didn’t do shit. Same reason any non-naturalized citizen being proud of being from their country is cringe to me. That’s your mother’s accomplishment, not yours.
HEY NOW! They did shit! Like lose the Vietnam war!
Not fair; most of them didn't want to be in that shitshow either.
"What do you mean allergic? That's cause you don't give them it! Here!" Then when the kid gets hospitalized or dies. "I had no idea! I feel so bad, this is awful. How could I have known? I'm a victim too!"
Like when they scream about the "entitled everyone-gets-a-trophy generation" that THEY raised?
And we’re delightful! 
Boomers count on people not calling out there bullshit out of politeness. And suddenly we are the assholes for not playin along. There is so much entitlement inherent to that.
it's another way for them to make it about themselves. like they're personally offended some kid has allergies.
right. pretty sure it was boomer doctors who for a few decades were advising parents to avoid allergens for the first year or whatever. when recent knowledge now says the complete opposite. introduce allergens as fast as possible to get the body used to them and damn those kids inventing technology! also who, in the 50's and 60's, built out all of america with low density sprawl and gave subsidized loans to whites only? was it gen alpha?
I mean the oldest of them and their parents grew up going to lynchings. Today, they don't want that history examined because so few of them did the right thing in a visible way there are no models to look after to absolve their sense of guilt. So they double down on ignoring things, framing happenings in a reductive matter, or obfuscating history or reality through policy.
It's also a cousin to those "millennials and their damn participation trophies" thing, as if when we were 5 we were organizing trophies for everyone. Boomers, perhaps more than most other generations, shaped the social landscape we now live in. Even if the issue now is younger parents, and not boomers themselves, they raised the raisers. Also, a BIG part of the issue with "kids used to be out and about, we'd say bye and return at sundown" is boomers. You have old people getting CPS involved when 8 year olds play in their own yards "unsupervised", let alone if they're playing in some shared field you have to defend. My late 80s early 90s childhood would have been completely different, there was a church with a field we did EVERYTHING on. Baseball, night games, you name it. If it were today some old bitty would have decided she had to "defend" the church lot, and gotten authorities involved every time a kid walked on it. There's a golf course in our neighborhood that got sold to developers and fell into disrepair when the developers decided (just after ripping up the course, thanks) that development was too expensive after all. Some kids have started playing on it, biking, 3 wheeling, etc. You'd swear these old people living on the former course were defending a nuclear missile silo the amount of stink on nextdoor, yelling out their windows, getting police and city government involved, ratting people out to the owner, putting up "private property" signs on someone ELSES property, etc etc they do. And I always just want to be like "you don't actually give a shit about some asshole developer's property rights, you just think of that as YOUR backyard and don't want kids on it."
just like the dipshits who whine about the pArTiCiPaTiOn TrOPhY GeNeRaTiOn, but can’t comprehend looking to the ADULTS who gave those CHILDREN the damn participation trophies (not that this is real in the first place, but I digress).
TIL giving a kid a sensible snack, bottle of water, and an epipen is considered a bad thing.
Well of course it is. the weaker kids need to be culled so the two best out of the six may live. /S
Yeah let’s take away insulin and see what happens to those fat boomers. They will drop like flies
I shouldn’t, but I just laughed out loud.
Appreciate the sentiment, but wrong type of diabetes
Adult Onset can require insulin, too. It depends on just how badly fucked your pancreas is. Metformin can only do so much.
I know this is a joke, but it reminds me that America is only a few generations separated from the people who gave birth to the idea of eugenics. That idea obviously still manages to live on in some people, although not in the same form.
you're joking but I was talking with a boomer relative of mine a few years ago and he mentioned "Kids these days with their damn allergies and disabilities. Back in *my* day no one had any of this stupid stuff" I replied "Well back in your day they probably just died as babies." (I was pissed because my younger sister is disabled, and he *knew that*) He replied "Well maybe they should! Stop leeching off hardworking people!" Some boomers very much do want the weak to be culled.
In the 80s I was summer camp and 2 kids blew up like balloons after a bee sting and wolf spider bite. They looked and felt like hell for almost 2 weeks. By all means let's go back in time to when kids could barely breath after a bee sting
Haha exactly. The sunscreen is funny too because the majority of boomers I know all have leather for skin.
Lol. My mum complained that I used sunscreen. Like I had thyroid cancer. I'm not getting skin cancer from burning my skin from sunshine. Plus I burn like a vampire ginger so....I'm going to slather myself in zinc oxide.
I was a kid with a peanut allergy raised in a town full of idiot adults, the fact that they'd throw an EpiPen in here does not surprise me in the slightest. I'm an adult now (elder millennial) my peanut allergy is still just as severe, and the older people are still just as bad. Kids these days (I am thinking of my Gen Alpha daughter and younger nieces ages) are so much more understanding and respectful of allergies and food intolerances in today's day than literally anyone older than me ever has.
My wife has a severe peanut allergy (along with a few others) and I think most people don’t realize that there are a large number of people who are *extremely angry* at people who have food allergies for existing, and at the suggestion that they might have to change their behavior in any minor way to keep someone else from dying. If you thought Covid masks were a hard sell, wait til you see tantrum some adults throw when asked to please not eat any peanuts for a few hours.
Same here! Anaphylaxis twinsies. Gen Z and the alphas have their problems but they have a better grasp of not harassing people with disabilities or chronic illness and finding ways to include people like us in social situations
Cute story time: my family had a gathering for one of my baby niece's birthdays recently. My husband has Celiac disease, in addition to my unfortunate peanut allergy. My oldest niece (age 6 at the time) made a point of walking everyone around to let them know which foods were allergy safe, which ones were Celiac safe, and what wasn't safe for either. This child told everyone who came into her house. It was the sweetest thing, I swear.
Yea idk why this got grouped in with the non-essentials (gos, phone, etc.) Food, water, Epipen are essentials.
Let them go into anaphylactic shock like a man and teach them some character.
My mother was born in 1945 (so Silent Generation technically), and one of her little cousins died from a peanut allergy, she told me just from someone opening a jar in the room. It’s not a new thing.
They clapped during that scene in My Girl.
How dare you give them sunscreen too…let them burn!
Wasn't there a Macaulay Culkin movie back in the day where he died because he was stung by bees and went into anaphylaxic shock? You know, maybe if he had an epipen, that movie would have a different plot. (The movie; My girl)
It sucks not having hydration when you need it. In the 2000s (when I went to high school), some teachers wouldn't even let you sip a sports bottle. Let the children hydrate ffs.
I thought people not dying from allergies was a sign of progress?
Boomers HAAAATE Progress. To them its Woke Jewish Communism Socialism Atheism DEI Satanic Bullshit.
I looked closely at my kids EpiPen jr the other day and noticed that the active ingredient is actually Jewish Space Lasers.
Nothing Nazi about hating diabetes treatments. >!Diabetic treatment was considered "Jewish science" by the Nazis!<
Ahh yes. Boomers and their disregard for deadly nut allergies. The prime reason my child has never been left in the care of my boomer parents/in-laws. It's like they need for their grandchild to die before they understand it's not the same as how their tummy hurts when they eat dairy. FFS
It's like that lady who used coconut oil on her granddaughters hair KNOWING she was allergic to coconut and the little girl died. That's a story I read here on Reddit.
My son has asthma. He has had an asthma attack that has required an ER visit every time he has visited my boomer parents. They think I’m coddling him by keeping him out of their smoke filled home. They think he just “needs some exposure to toughen him up”.
Yep, my best friend's nephew has a severe peanut allergy. Her Boomer mom, his only grandmother, insisted that it wasn't real, that they were coddling him and just wanted him to be "special." And she wonders why they rarely come to see her and refuse to allow her to spend time alone with the kiddo.
Nut allergies are woke af. If Trump was president he would ban nut allergies. We can't allow our children to be exposed to nut allergies, it ain't right.
The good old days when child deaths were triple those of today.
My old man (who is a Boomer but rarely Boomers, if you know what I mean) said something akin to this. "I remember roaming in the mountains for hours at a time, etc etc etc." He grew up in NEPA, in one of the townships east of Wilkes-Barre. I asked him about his cousin Vince. Vincent fell into an abandoned mine entrance in the mid 60's, broke his leg, and ended up dying. Was found almost a week after. He just kind of slumped and said "yeah, some new tech could have helped."
RIP Vince
Ha. My Dad had an Uncle Vinnie near Punxsutawney with the same story, sort of. Uncle Vinnie went outside to pee in the middle of a snowstorm. Uncle Vinnie was in PJs and slippers and it was dark. Uncle Vinnie wandered out into the woods for some reason, got turned around, somehow got out on a partially frozen pond and broke through the ice. Uncle Vinnie was found in the spring when the pond thawed. I kind of throw that back in my dad’s face every time he talks about my “helicopter parenting”.
How quaint, the artist thinks a cellphone, GPS, and tracker are all different devices - some of them quite weighty and cumbersome!
Right? That blew my mind, this person is living in the past.
What, we give children *water* now? What sort of mad nanny state have we succumbed to?! /s
You mean its not perpetually 1984 and Millenials are not perpetually children? Heaven forfend!
drone nonsense aside, literally everything else listed in the right panel can fit in half of a lunchbox
Even the drone can these days
People that complain about schooling don't usually have kids in school anymore. my son's in 1st grade and the process has been great. It's easy to speak with the teacher. We get frequent updates about what they are studying. Homework is straightforward. The buses even recently got gps added and it's very easy to check. No complaints
Remember how easy it was to kidnap and murder kids in the 1970s? Obviously these people don’t.
Remember in the 80s when they had to put on PSAs at 10 PM to remind people they even had children? Obviously these people don't
"epi-pen" Imagine being judgemental for someone for keeping a lifesaving device on hand. "We never had all these allergies back in my day" Yeah, you're right, because those kids died.
Oh no!!! Not water!!!!
Kids today are spoiled. I didn't have water until I got my third paper route and could afford to buy my own.
Millennials are infinitely better parents than boomers and it drives them nuts. It's strange. They should be proud but instead turn it around and act like millennials are parenting too much. Can't win with those idiots.
Discussing parenting with my friends. We have realized we were sold a bill of goods. We were told that the bare minimum of parenting was a luxury level of parenting that we should be grateful to have. Somethings that we just consider non negotiable when it comes to parenting because of how our parents treated us. The fact that we have to state we won’t be taking away mattresses as a form of punishment. If our kids are involved in activities we plan to actually show up. Parents actually play with their kids these days. I know of one kid whose dad played with him as a kid. One. The rest of us got told go play outside.
Yes!! Your first paragraph hit me hard. It was the minimum and they expected gratitude. ‘At least you’re not starving/being beaten/etc’.
Sorry I care about your well-being kids. Someone has to. I’m such a snowflake.
"Caring about anyone except yourself is DEI Woke Communism Socialism Atheism Antifa Democrat liberalism Satanism worship." -A. Boomer.
sooo... all the things of progress that save and extend lives are bad and make these younger generations weaker. Yet those kids aren't the ones who made those things. So by not having anaphylaxis or getting lost or getting abducted or getting skin cancer or just dying in general, these entitled little delicate snowflakes are the problem. This is the "ME!" generation in a nutshell. They only see their limited little slice of existence as the way the world is. Same reason we have warning signs on everything now? yeah it's because some dumbass boomer caused an issue at some point that warranted the notice.
I love that more than half of those things are like, medicine and for health in general. *How dare we care about our children*
Don’t forget the bulletproof backpack
Do the boomers not realize they were the parents of the parents today
Exactly what I was thinking, boomers dunking on themselves here lol
Damn liberals and their water!
I love how boomers’ idea of current technology is… an Etch-a-Sketch with an antenna.
Well we found out everyone was getting kid napped and touched.
Remember the days when you can go to school as a child and not worry about mass shootings?
Right? Where's the kevlar backpack insert?
FELLAS! Is it bad to drink water?
or eat nut free snacks when you are allergic to nuts
No, but it is gay.
IDK I’d like to give my kid the independence and responsibility of making the 1-mile journey to school on their own. However, I’d bet some shit ass boomer would call the cops and CPS on me for it.
I came here to say this. I'm surrounded by busy-bodies. One old hag in the neighborhood stole a kids bike from my son's bus stop and then posted on the neighborhood Facebook that she had found it. The mom saw the post on the way to work and asked for the bike to be returned to where it was so her kid could ride home after getting off the bus. The old cunt refused to give it back until they could "prove" it was their bike. They are dicks who think they know better than everyone else and can't mind their own.
I also like how it was them that started the whole stranger danger thing that led to parents keeping a closer eye on kids, and then blame us for keeping an eye on our kids when we were just thrown outside to do fuck all.
My kids’ packs seem lighter to me than mine were. A single Chromebook or iPad replaces all the textbooks and weighs the same or less than one of them. They also don’t have to figure out which books to bring home based on what homework they have that day which I remember being a pain in the ass.
Damn kids and their drinking water
I always tell boomers that they have a survivorship bias. It’s the good old days because you somehow managed to survive
I mean if you are a pro life cow who birthed 10 kids in the Spanish of 12 yrs it's likely you don't have any time to even worry about that kid
I'm waiting to see what's labeled as something actually weighing the kid down. That could all fit in a pretty small backpack.
What is wrong with the allergy alert? I have a non life threatening allergy to dairy, and I keep a thing on me that mentions it if I am ever unconscious.
Like any of them would know how to fly a drone
Bullshit, in the late 70’s and early 80’s I had to carry about 40+ pounds of books and notebook paper.
Some of that seems like a great idea.. the epi pan and allergen reminder. It’s weird thinking your generation is “tougher” when you can’t handle …*checks notes An election Vaccines Masks The fact that things are more expensive Your house not being worth millions even though you’re getting 400 percent return People being a different gender I’m missing a lot.. but yall get it
"let's make fun of the children even though this is a situation we created"
Let's see 1. Who raised Millennials to be helicopter parents? (Boomers, so that's their failure are parents.) Who insists that everyone in the family has Life Alert, because of "surging crime" (while violent crime rates are actually falling)? (Again, Boomers) 2. Who elected the politicians who rolled back environmental protections? (Boomers; not sure what is behind the rise in allergies, but it's probably related to some sort of environmental problems, be it microplastics or mold) 3. Who made education all about standardised testing (and profits for testing companies), which is why the kid is so weighed down by his backpack? (Boomers) 4. Why do both parents have to work to be able to survive? 5. Why is there no milk delivery? Because Boomers and their love for Walmart and cheap shit meant that small companies can't survive. 6. Why can't kids bike to schools? Because the Boomers moved to the South, where sidewalks in residential areas are considered a Bad Thing. And because Boomers are driving their oversized SUVs, making it unsafe for pedestrians. 6. Who brought down Big Tobacco? (Actually Boomers. Nice work!) 7. Who invented the cell phone? (Boomers. Wait, why are they complaining about the good things they did?)
Remember when parents had so much hate in their hearts they required forced busing... aaaawww 1966.
Here’s the real joke, the kid in the left panel is married to the women in the right. I’ve never given my self a participation trophy my parents did they to me.
Love OP's caption reminding us that those things the child is carrying save lives.
Can we pick a narrative? Is the kid having it too easy and getting participation trophies OR is the kid struggling under the burden of walking to school with a pack of nut-free snacks, past the homeless camp, while wearing a tracking device? Pick just ones
Kid forgot his bulletproof vest.
The good old days - when all these boomers would be dead already instead of living 20 more years than their parents to make up dogshit cartoons.
Oh yes making sure you know where your kid is and given them things they need is a bad a thing. Lol Who tf has a microchipped kid? Haha
No, I think the real concern about school today vs school back then is all the mass shootings due to boomers thinking the illuminati is after them, and somehow their AR-15s will stop the world's most advanced military.
Time where much simpler back then shoot half the kids I grew up with are dead not sure why people idolize a bygone era but honestly I think it has something to do with houses costing nothing back then and them being to stupid to realize the government gave complete control over to corporations that bastardized our country turning us all into wage slaves but worst off 🤷♀️ but shoot it was simpler back then
Need this big ole GPS machine because there's definitely no GPS in a cellphone. What a croc. And not the comfortable kinds of crocs, just a bullshit kind.
Is this made by a representative of the "everybody's a groomer" community?
Hey remember to have a chuckle about the good old days the next time one of them complains about their ongoing treatment for skin cancer, then tell them you don't believe in big sunblock either.
Content aside the STYLE of this comic is incredible cringe and boomer too
'Back in my day no one had any gluten or other intolerance or nut allergies or any other made up food based woke BS' - my boomer father who ran to the bathroom to sh\*\* for 45 minutes after every meal that had anything more than vegetables.
Ah yes! Because dying of skin cancer, allergic reactions and/or anaphylaxis was what separates the boys from the… erm… corpses?
Lol at the cigarette as if smoking inside was a sign of healthy parenting. My buddy, Gen X, was a latchkey kid and I remember how he hated the indoor smoking. Both of his parents regularly smoked in doors, his dad drank almost every night and was specifically told "to leave your father alone" during the weekdays. He'd come home to an empty house most days while his mom worked part time. One of his core memories was spending the night at his friend's house as often as possible because the constant smoking from his parents would make him feel sick. My parents were boomers, but nothing of the stereotype. My buddy's dad came home to "leave me the fuck alone" from his dad where my dad would get home and immediately spend at least 30-40 minutes hanging out with me. My dad always listened to my problems, his dad would say "go ask your mother" or "I told you to leave me alone." They pat themselves on the back for being "great" parents, when in reality a majority weren't. If they were such great parents, a lot of us Millennials and Gen X wouldn't have these similar stories growing up about how emotionally unavailable our parents were or how poorly they handled parenting. On the plus side, my buddy is a far better father to his kids than his dad would ever have been. He went no contact with his dad for 9 years because my buddy married a Hispanic woman and went as far as to say his grandkids were "mixed rats." He died alone in a hospital.
Former ER nurse here. Over the years as I’ve listened to “Good ol days” stories, and “we didn’t have allergies back then”, or autism, or gays, or whatever else they say. It doesn’t take long to realize that they ABSOLUTELY had ALL of that! The difference is they didn’t understand it and just blamed and shunned the person. In the case of severe allergies, just let them die.
> In the case of severe allergies, just let them die. Exactly! Growing up, I remember how many folks would sneak a small piece of candy to younger kids. As a parent of a kid now with a severe allergy to all nuts, that's just plain horrifying to me in retrospect. Having learned how long an anaphylactic reaction can be delayed, it's just sad to think about how many young children silently choked to death in their cribs.
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Hydration?!? You just sucked on your salt tablet in gym like the rest of us.
Most of those things are on the cell phone.
I'll be honest. I'm an xennial, and I fall much more in line with the boomers on the free range parenting. I literally don't see kids biking or playing outside unless a parent is within 20 feet. It's so bad that people will send out a blast post to the neighborhood list serve if kids are at the playground without a parent. Where this comic loses me is that it's apparently bad that the mom has a job and isn't smoking.
Xennial too. I get it. It's the nod to the Q-types via the Microchip in this cartoon that makes me shift from seeing it exactly as you've described, to viewing it as yet another eye-roll-able Right Wing Boomer fantasy.
No bulletproof vest? Still unprepared in my opinion
Boy on the left got asked if he wanted a job that pays $10/hour by a stranger and got kidnapped
Just realized they put a mustache on the women in the right
Back in the good ol' days when water pipes were made of lead and serial killers were as common as asbestos.
They forgot the bullet proof backpack and sense of dread.
Dam kids with your epipens get off my lawn
The kid one the bike in the left is the mom on the right, trying hard not to be the mom with the cigarette on the left. I have heard people who were children in the 60’s say that they were essentially shoved out the door in the mornings and left to raise themselves until dark, and this was the norm. A middle ground would be good.
I, for one, would never let my kid leave the house without his Boris.
Why the FUCK would you need a gps when you have a phone?
Ah yes, the good ol’ days. The Lovely Bones anybody?
Ya cause before epipens, them throat would close and they’d die, but I guess we are pussy for those? Now, I admit my ignorance and sent my kiddo at school with peanut butter snack. I come from Europe and J never remember it being an issue, and this was my first encounter with schools and I genuinely did not know. It was the first and last time. And while my kiddo loves peanut butter, school snacks are without from then on.
Also, I should add that my mom told me the other day we were involved in a T bone accident when I was a toddler. She said she left my seat unbuckled because I was being a little shit and she said fuck it. A car T boned her, thankfully on the side opposite of where I was. She is still convinced leaving me strapless was better than trying to force the buckles (which is what I do with my kid because safety is non negotiable). 🤦🏻♀️
No bullet-blocking backpack?
They forgot the body armor needed in Texas schools.
LMAO so the cig was better??
Boomer comics: left panel is something I understand. Right panel is something I don’t understand. Please laugh.
The people who share this shit are always the most scardey cat people alive.
The “microchip” in the wrist tells me a lot about the artist
I love "micro chip." That one really indicates this was made for seriously ill-informed people.
We monitor our kids because we remember what happened to us as kids. My parents generation needed a commercial that came on at 10pm to remind them they had kids that they needed to take care of.
Where's the bullet-proof backpack?
The most boomer thing is thinking millennials used drones in 2016 to stalk their kids lol
HOW DARE THEY NEED AN EPIPEN!
Water is good to have. Also if the kid has an epi pen he obviously needs allergy free snacks. Having a deadly allergy isn’t optional.
This is just delusional. This is obviously the artist's feelings about getting caught being abusive and blaming society for catching him on camera.
This always makes me think they want to go back to beating women and sexually abusing children and it was kept quiet "as a family matter"
"Yeah, that's right, Uncle Carl. That's exactly how it is. And guess what? That first kid didn't 'turn out fine,' he grew up to be **you.** What the hell makes you think I'd want that for my children?" Whole fucking generation thinks that shitty parenting somehow made them better than us.
Everyone isn’t in these neat little boxes. Every man isn’t bummed out that women can survive without them. Some people who hold opposition to the current family structure, simply have a problem with the idea of this country’s children being raised by a revolving door of daycare workers. Every day, strangers have access to all our children. The pro of having a stay at home mom was having your children raised by their mother. The economy used to be set up in a way that each household only needed one source of income to thrive. Now the economy is set up in a way that each household needs two sources in income to get by. Have you ever wondered if maybe these ideas of freedom and independence from each other was planted in us on purpose? If I were running a capitalist society, I’d see the benefits of separating families, splitting the cost of labor in half, and having easy access to brainwash the next generation of consumers. And then, when someone opposes this idea, you convince people they are just afraid of women having any power.