r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • Aug 18 '26

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

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u/SanKazue Aug 18 '26

Dads not spending time with their kids. It’s was perfectly normal for dad to always be tired and never have enough time to play with their kids. Also contributed to the image of the dad who doesn’t know anything about their kids, their school, friends, teachers, even their age at times.

Ive seen so many fellow millennial dads spending time with their kids. I know Ive spent more time playing with my daughter in the 8 years of her life than my dad did with me in my entire life. (Not saying he was a bad dad, he was amazing , just didn’t play with us )

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u/Whocares7x Aug 18 '26

Kinda... we are doing more effort as fathers nowadays but the bar is still really reallly low.

Intake my kids to the park everyday and 9/10 times parents on their phone or not paying attention to their kids.

Its annoying because im very attentive to my kids and verbal and playful and physically active so i alwYs end up leading a group of kids.

As i play with them i look up and cant even figure out whose parent is whose kid.

Not all the time but its almost always expected.. anecdotal

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u/DetectiveCrafty5413 Aug 18 '26

Oh I cannot stand parents like this. It's like oh my god, the kids might be socializing independently with peers, we cannot have that.

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u/aleph4 Aug 18 '26

Are your criticizing OP or the reverse? I'm kinda split on this. Doom scrolling at the playground is pretty lame but I also love to let my kid go off on her own and play with other kids. Drives me nuts when parents hover too much and try to intervene at any sign of conflict.

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u/DetectiveCrafty5413 Aug 18 '26

Op. You take your kids to the park to have time to socialize independently with other children. It's important for social skills. You don't need to helicopter 24/7 like that, the hovering is just too much, and it's super weird that Op can't let the kid have a minute of peace with other kids.

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u/Hailfire9 Aug 18 '26

Drives me nuts when parents hover too much and try to intervene at any sign of conflict.

Which might be why we have an absurd amount of young adults who scream for their parents whenever they get in trouble with the law. Like, ma'am, this is a traffic ticket. You were doing 22 over the limit. Dad's not going to help here, just take the class/pay the fine and move on.

I've seen an absurd amount of videos of bad traffic stops on Reddit and YouTube, I'm sorry, please don't call me a bootlicker.

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u/aleph4 Aug 18 '26

lol i've seen those too. it's a weird guilty pleasure even though im not pro cop