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Parenting trends, similar each things, alteration with each generation. And boomers, successful particular, favored immoderate parenting styles that younger generations of parents find wholly outrageous today. So Redditor u/The_Brolander asked, "What’s thing your Boomer parents did with you that was laughably atrocious parenting?" Here's what radical said.
1. "My boomer parent thought it was hilarious to mock thing I liked mercilessly, nary substance however harmless, not conscionable to maine but to anybody around. She embarrassed maine retired of liking truthful galore things until I yet developed a screw you; I won't fto you spoil this for me cognition astir it. And no, she wasn't doing maine immoderate favors. To this day, I'm reticent astir telling radical astir things I similar due to the fact that I'm half-expecting to beryllium mocked."
2. "My ma would nonstop maine to the adjacent 7-Eleven with a hand-written enactment giving maine support to bargain cigarettes for her...and the clerk would judge it!"
3. "Weeks back, erstwhile my babe was astir six weeks, she had a panic of a time wherever she conscionable wouldn't settle. My mum and MIL suggested I springiness her water, but I told them it's not recommended to person h2o for nether six months. They thought this was unusual but didn't propulsion further. Then, past week, my MIL babysat for a fewer hours and texted america a photograph of her dormant connected her broadside with 3 pillows astir her. I told my spouse this was not recommended and dangerous. I accidental those 2 things aren't that brainsick arsenic they travel up galore times connected Reddit, but past today, I told my mum she was being fussy today, and she said to me, 'Try immoderate food, oregon marque a cupful of beverage and fto her person a sip.' She's 11 weeks old. What successful the world... Why. Why would you springiness an 11-week-old a cupful of tea!? She says, 'I cognize your procreation is different, but that's what I would do". Oh, however times person changed."
4. "According to my dad, I had Pepsi successful my bottles due to the fact that my parents thought keeping maine caffeinated each time meant I'd slumber amended astatine night. A batch much questionable decisions followed."
5. "My boomer parents placed my small 1 facedown successful the crease of a sofa for a nap. Blankets on, surrounded by pillows. They got annoyed erstwhile I instantly woke her up to determination her. 'We did this each the clip erstwhile you were a baby.' SMH."
6. "The champion 1 I've heard from a boomer is, 'If you privation a babe to spell to sleep, enactment the prima successful their eyes.' We unrecorded successful Australia wherever the prima virtually cooks america alive."
7. "My ma told maine to enactment chromatic connected my small one's pacifier for amended slumber (she's not the champion sleeper). I said it's connected the vessel not to springiness it to a kid nether 1 twelvemonth due to the fact that it's dangerous. Her reply was, 'I gave it to you and your brother, and you're fine, no?' Yeah, Mom, but that was 30 years ago."
8. "When I was 5 (1980), The Shining came retired and was connected HBO for its cablegram premiere. Wanting to walk clip with my dad, I asked him if I could ticker it. It's arguably 1 of the astir psychologically disturbing movies of its time, and helium was chill with it. I watched 90% of it, peeking from down his lazy boy. Then, knowing however severely it frightened me, my begetter thought it would beryllium comic for a fewer days aft to basal astatine the ft of my furniture with dormant eyes, waking maine up and asking if I wanted to 'come to play with him…forever.'"
9. "Putting whiskey connected a baby's gums during teething was incredibly common, and boomers look to deliberation that really helped teething symptom with peculiar magical whiskey symptom alleviation alternatively than conscionable sedating the babe with alcohol."
10. "We stayed astatine my mom's location past month, and she enactment retired a pack-and-play for our girl. She didn't deliberation the mattress would beryllium comfy enough, truthful she enactment a dog bed nether the expanse truthful it would beryllium softer. I instantly made her region it and explained wherefore it was a atrocious idea. I besides told her she sleeps connected a steadfast mattress astatine home, truthful she's good to bash that astatine their house, too."
11. "My ma told maine I was wasting wealth buying a bassinet and should conscionable usage a laundry basket."
12. "I played alone, always. I was locked extracurricular often truthful my ma could ticker her soaps peacefully."
13. "I'm Gen X and grew up successful the '70s and '80s. I LOVED shot and played it from property 8 to 18 and beyond. My parent came to 1 game, and my begetter did not. And this was existent for each of my friends too. The sidelines were ever empty. Meanwhile, I felt horrible erstwhile I missed 1 of my son's games portion helium was playing, and I conscionable can't recognize the boomer mindset."
14. "Doing everything for their children. My mum did each our cooking, washing, and cleaning up aft us. I moved retired astatine 22 and got myself unneurotic (mostly). My member (nearly 40) inactive struggles with maintaining his house. My kids volition 100% person age-appropriate chores."
15. "I was called homophobic words by my begetter and stepmom perpetually for liking Pokemon. I was 11. Therapy has been beneficial successful my big life."
16. "Saying 'you can't permission the array until you devour each your food.' This leads to clearing your sheet adjacent if you're not hungry, and a beingness of overeating."
18. "Probably fig 1 connected my database is putting maine down to slumber connected my tummy arsenic a newborn successful a drop-sided crib piled with escaped blankets, stuffed dolls, crib bumpers, and throw pillows."
What is simply a parenting inclination that your parents oregon grandparents embraced that is considered outdated, strange, oregon adjacent unsafe today? Tell america successful the comments oregon successful this anonymous form.
Note: Submissions person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.
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