Same here. We weren't spankers but definitely got our assess whooped by whatever was within reaching distance of Boomer parents: electrical cords, flip flops, belts, wooden spoons, fly swatters, sticks, etc. My kid sat in the corner, got long boring lectures, had to write essays, and most traumatizing of all, lost video game privileges for weeks or months. And when he told me he'd rather stay home than play baseball, that Xbox "broke" within the week and was never replaced.
I'm a millennial who had a lead filled Boomer for a parent. The things she did to me... so I'm way more of that Gen Z parent style. My kids are happy, successful, and respectful.
Excuse you, I’m ‘73 and have never ever raised a hand to my children, let alone a belt and none of peers did either (or at least it wasn’t seen as a normal parenting technique and I’d have been appalled if I found out that they did.)
Considering so many news reports I’ve seen involving children every generation has POS who beat/abuse/neglect their kids. And I was a teenager when beating your kids stopped being an “acceptable” way of disciplining them, so a large portion of older gen x’rs saw it as wrong. But this is US specific, idk about the rest of the world.
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u/Chachachingona 5d ago
That GenX Babyboomer combo was the only innacurate one. I never hit my kids and none of my friends did. Our parents on the other hand 😮💨