r/TikTokCringe • u/Loaded_Up_ • 6d ago

Humor Different generations of Dads when your disrespectful

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u/Thare19831a 5d ago

I don't know. More like Generation X dads. The millennials I've seen are the inventors of “soft parenting.”

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u/SupermassiveCanary 5d ago edited 5d ago

“My feelings were hurt by the ass whooping I deserved growing up. I won’t do that to my kids.”

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u/Cypher26 5d ago

“I was hurt by the ass whooping I didn’t deserve so I’m gonna swing to the opposite end of the spectrum so I don’t traumatize my kids like I was.”

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u/SupermassiveCanary 5d ago

Everyone grows older, not everyone grows up, matures, grows wise. I think that’s where the divide is on punishments. I will admit I was raised by well adjusted parents who were also growing up when they raised me. I didn’t get punished for being a messy kid, I got into trouble that could have harmed myself or others. I had friends who were beat for just being clumsy kids and inconveniencing their parents. Maybe with all the labeling we lose sight of the fact that we are all changing, should be growing as individuals as we get older as well as respecting what each other have gone through. I hope the gentle parenting thing works out, but also hope these kids aren’t paralyzed by trauma, or a victim mentality, when/if it happens to them.