"My dad will say, 'I didn't raise a pansy,' and shit like that because I don't work a physically demanding job and don't know how to fix shit around the house. And this is an unhinged thing to say for many reasons, chief among them being his insistence on my going to college precisely so that I wouldn't have to work a job doing manual labor. I swear our parents have brain damage."
"My mom never bought parenting magazines, so I was shocked when she picked up a Women's Day and put it in the shopping cart. I was in early high school and asked, 'Why are you getting that?' She pointed to one of the titles on the cover that said 'How to make your kids smarter.' I still think of this. It's been 20 years."
Gen X and boomer grandparents frequently offer repetitive, dismissive, and sometimes hurtful responses to millennial parents, minimizing concerns about modern child-rearing. Dismissals such as 'You turned out just fine' or 'We didn't worry about that when you were born' convey lack of empathy and invalidate parental anxieties. Examples include parents belittling non-manual careers, publicly shaming puberty milestones, and turning toward outdated remedies. These patterns cause exhaustion, estrangement, and emotional strain for young parents caring for children. The combination of intrusive advice, judgment, and generational blind spots intensifies conflict and complicates family relationships. Many millennials feel pushed away or overwhelmed by grandparents' behavior.
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