Lisa Ramsey Art

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5 months ago | [YT] | 0

Lisa Ramsey Art

On the topic of Gen X parents not being “friends” with their kids, and other ways Gen Xers have failed as parents.

If Gen X have been such shtty parents, imagine what their Boomer parents were like for them growing up. And what the Silent Gen parents were like to Boomer kids.

E.g., (edited) What my parent did was not right, but what they went through as a kid sort of explains the fcked mind that resulted. It was a much better life for ME than what my parent went through, but there is evidently some level of self-correction.

Still, from my upbringing with Boomer parents, I “knew” that I must be a parent first and foremost. But inside, I also knew from my own experiences that my kids just needed me as a friend now and then. You will see that from your own Gen X parents here and there if you look closer and be honest with yourself. We tried, and are still trying. (Ok, MOST of us.)

It’s a cycle that overall tries to self-adjust in the next generation for the better based on the horrors each Gen has lived through themselves.

But let me just say with importance: spend some time thinking about what life was like for YOUR parents growing up. You may like your grandparents today, but they learned “new-fangled” parenting skills as they made mistakes too. Understand that they weren’t always the best parents years ago, either. You work with the cards you are dealt and go from there, trying, experimenting, researching for the better. But we all make mistakes and most of us learn from them *as we grow and age* = *experience*.

Your kids will hate you too, at some point in their lives, not understanding your childhood and how YOU ARE trying to self-correct for them.

We don’t always win.

My two cents in a nutshell:
1. The world/expectations change with each generation, mostly for the better.
2. Have EMPATHY BOTH WAYS, parents AND kids.

10 months ago | [YT] | 0