For everyone who has been mocked with "ok boomer". Sad but true and most of us know it already.
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And how many boomers failed to pass these life skills on? Blaming a child for lack of education, in any regard, by their elders is its own form of laziness. Can pay yourself on the back all you want, but this crap doesn’t happen overnight or in a vacuum…
This is true, younger generations haven't failed, they have been failed. Hand your children over to be essentially raised by the government and then act surprised when they all come out as socialist and communist nitwits with no critical thinking skills, or any other kind of skills...
What makes you think they didn't try?
I taught my daughter to lay out patterns and run a sewing machine when she was around eight. I taught her to cook and bake from scratch. I taught her to crochet and knit.
And this was in addition to things I signed her up for that I never learned to do because my parents didn't have the money for "enrichment".
Now I was lucky because she was cooperative. Many of her peers -- their parents would tell me how they would sign their kids up for stuff and the kids would lose interest and quit.
Now I personally wouldn't allow a kid to quit something like music lessons in the early days (when kids get frustrated because learning an instrument takes time). But some parents don't like to argue and let the kid have their way.
But don't assume they didn't try to give their kids advantages.
But that’s the difference, you tried and PERSISTED when it got tough, thereby teaching them even more life skills. You didn’t give up at the first sign of resistance and then wonder why your child does the same. I’m not saying every boomer, by any means, bc the problem is lazy parenting across the board. But the ME generation, on average, has far more to answer for than many want to accept. I.e. Parents who let their kids quit midway through a sports season ‘bc the kid didn’t like it,’ rather than having the hard convos about keeping a commitment, because it made them uncomfortable and/or deep down they ‘wanted their Saturday’s back,’ but then want to act surprised when their kid follows their lead (rather than listening to the benign lip service) and doesn’t persist in anything.
(Also in before anyone mentions the “participation trophy generation” as if we the kids were on the little league boards demanding the rule changes, rather than our parents who didn’t want to honestly explain to the kids who barely practiced once a week, why the kids who practiced 5x/wk were performing better and winning. Same psychology; same result; same dodging of responsibility)
You did it right and I’m sure your child(ren), and society, are better for it fren.