is there a parenting style that is distinctly millenial? like boomers wanted to be their kids friends (or was that the silent generation) whereas greatest generation was gruff and distant because they all had ptsd
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Setting unrealistically high expectations for future achievement, I.e. “you can be anything you want when you grow up—maybe the president!”, imo the origin of most millennial maladjustment
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Replying to @mind_procedure
people have always said that in america i think
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Fair, I do legitimately wonder and had assumed it was especially pronounced in my generation. Most everyone I know seems to be coping with not turning out in such a grand fashion as expected. Maybe this is just how people’s 30s are (in the US)
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Replying to @mind_procedure @eigenrobot
Some of that is trying to let kids never fail. This was pushed in schools and by parents for the Millennials.
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Replying to @ouranometrian @eigenrobot
How do you mean never fail? It seems like a near certainty of failure wrt the implied goal (if you can be anything, obviously you shouldn’t choose something ordinary) It does strike me as something schools/parents/tv for kids etc. were allies on though...
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Replying to @mind_procedure @eigenrobot
I mean for smaller things. A good example is my husband couldn't do the spelling bee in elementary school when he was in 1st grade. Their reasoning was 1st graders might not win and then feel bad. Also the whole everyone gets a trophy in sports and we don't keep score
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I yeah I remember a soccer league where we didn't keep score (all of the kids kept score)
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Replying to @selentelechia @ouranometrian and
I was a counselor at a summer camp where keeping score was against the rules. I noticed all the kids were keeping score anyway while playing ping pong, and I’m not a psycho, so I let them. A camp director noticed and chewed me out for it later.
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as a child immediately recognized that this was wrong to do
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Replying to @eigenrobot @movnta1n and
To praise all is to praise none. I assume that nearly everyone understands this at some level, however some wambs feel that endorsing the noble lie of universal praise makes them look considerate.https://everythingstudies.com/2017/11/07/the-nerd-as-the-norm/ …
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