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u/dover_oxide 3h ago
I'm millennial. My dad was a boomer but he didn't hit me. He made me do laborers and chores that were very physically active for a long periods of time like my grandfather did him
My grandfather was a farmer and one of his best punishments was is he would say oh you have enough energy to screw around. You have enough energy to get up before Dawn with me and go till a field or plant it And then you still had to go to school.
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u/Spare_Ad1017 2h ago
I'm a millennial. My daddy is a boomer, never hit me. My momma is a Gen Xer, and she would do the same thing sort of. She would make us plank or do crunches until failure and THEN beat us with shoes or a wooden spoon until we kept going with that mentality of "if you have enough energy to misbehave you have enough energy to keep working out."
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u/dover_oxide 1h ago
You didn't get in trouble with him too often, he was a loving man but yeah you didn't want him being the one to punish you
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u/Dry_Yoghurt_5429 1h ago
Honestly...this is good
No experience where exercise is punishment. Doesn't get hit . Gets all the energy out and goes outside. . . Damn your boomer sounds alright at this
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u/Spiritual-Artist9382 2h ago
Me when I told my mom to shut up in 1994
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u/justwant2seepuppies 1h ago
My mom called my brother a son of a bitch once when he did something or other, and he laughed. She was extra pissed after that.
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u/DeadEyeDonny1991 3h ago
I was a kid in the 90s. They still beat your ass then
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u/Elinor_Caskey_ 2h ago
The clip is of parents. You're a millennial and probably don't beat your children. Same as the clip showed.
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u/Bennyseed 2h ago
The years that ive endured the ol' wooden spoon
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u/Ragnarok314159 2h ago
“Time for the spoon dance!!!” as the Boomer beat my ass until the spoon broke.
My crime was asking for help on homework.
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u/No_Key469 3h ago
They still hand spankings in school at that point. Shit didn’t change until after elementary school
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u/DeadEyeDonny1991 3h ago
We didnt have spankings it school. If you fucked up youd wait till you got home tl have your ass kicked
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u/Mbembez 1h ago
We still had the cane for the first couple of years I was in school. I remember getting canned as a 6yo because on lunch break a teacher thought they heard someone swear (we didn't even know swear words at that age). So all 4 of us got canned because we didn't admit to it.
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u/CitizenCue 2h ago
Isn’t that the point of the sketch? He’s talking about the parents’ generation, not the kids.
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u/enixlinked 1h ago
Um yes? A parent of a millennial is either gen X or boomer, both of those wielded a belt in this clip
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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 42m ago
I was also a kid in the 90’s.
My teachers would hit us. I was hit by teachers and our principal kept a fucking paddle and he used it.
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u/muscularsharpie 2h ago
I have a strong relationship with my dad. Never hit me, raised his voice. He'd still scare the shit out of me with his "talks," when I messed up, but those were always learning experiences for both of us.
He was the best kind of coach, and brought that energy home. And he gets calls from me, memes sent from me, we go to concerts, random "I love you, dude." Has taken the best care of my mom. Never fell into the trope of an awkwardly aggressive, or passively non-present father.
More like a really close friend. Thanks, pops.
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u/HappyAnimalCracker 1h ago
A little envious here, but genuinely glad you grew up that way. I wish everyone did. Your pop was making the world a better place by raising you right.
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u/Dry_Yoghurt_5429 1h ago
How did he react to things like bullying, you being sad or speaking out,you doing things you were not supposed to etc?
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u/Mundane_Statement364 3h ago
36 yo and I think I grew up in the generation prior….
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u/msndrstdmstrmnd 41m ago
It’s talking about your parents generation… millennial section is showing how YOU would be as a parent to your kids.
Unless you mean that you had Gen X parents that acted like boomers
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u/No_Public8938 3h ago
How did the baby boom not start right after WW2 in 1945? I doubt 1955 is considered the start of the baby boomer generation.
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u/notMcLovin77 2h ago
I know of plenty of boomer parents that never laid a hand on their kids and I've seen with my own eyes very young parents hitting their kids in public. Usually when you whoop a kid, the parent has failed badly somewhere along the line. a lot of people aren't ready to be parents, and some people should never be parents but are anyways.
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u/DELINCUENT 3h ago
Maybe it's because I'm Hispanic but I got that pre 1965 special 😂
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u/GolfSwimming5414 3h ago
LOL i'm plain old white and that 65 special was definitely on the menu
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u/Dr_Middlefinger 2h ago
My grandma would whip me, then my dad would whip me for making my grandma whip me.
Not saying I didn't deserve some punishment, but being punished for being punished was a little over the top.
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u/VonBrewskie 3h ago
1980 here. My mother used to flick us on the forehead. It was more insulting than anything. Especially if she did it in front of my friends. Devastating lol. My old man only choked me out once. Lifted me clean off the floor from my neck. That was pretty scary.
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u/EastBayBetti 1h ago
OMG! My uncle use to flick me and my cousins on the temple, super hard! It was hella painful and infuriating.
EDIT: I’m also an 80’s baby and my unc is a Boomer/C cusper…
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u/Ok-Order6974 3h ago
I must’ve grown up in 1955
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u/ScottieSpliffin 2h ago
I grew up when they hit you with a belt for a little while, soon realized it’s wrong and then denied they did it much later
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u/NewManufacturer9477 3h ago
Im sayin… 86’ here and got my shit handed to me
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u/Quick_Initial6352 3h ago
But that’s the point? If you’re born in 86 then your parents are boomers and thus the first clip is what you endured. The meme is showing how those generations are as PARENTS, not how YOU born in those generations had parents.
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u/SquirrelFluffy 2h ago
It seems to be both kind of because don't we act the way we learned?
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u/VitaViolet 2h ago
I don't think so. I was raised and whooped by boomers. I am an elder millennial. The thought of striking a child as punishment is instantly nauseating to me.
So the boomers coming out swinging and the millennials promising not to treat their kids like they were treated makes sense to me.
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u/Ragnarok314159 2h ago
The video is how the parents handled it. Boomers absolutely beat our asses.
Rather than parent, it was just ass beatings all around.
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u/Curious_Rugburn 1h ago
Right, some of us millennials were hit with belts, paddles, whatever was nearby and for however long it took for our parents got their anger out. 🤷♀️
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u/superfatman2 1h ago
Same. Asian parents handed down another level of beatdowns.
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u/DanikanSkywalkr 43m ago
Try having a sicilian mother... Mf tried to club me over the head with a fender precision bass one day
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u/superfatman2 5m ago
Sorry bro, you have no idea what Indian moms and dads are like. I got you beat on this one. Not that this is a competition. I could go through the list of things they did (not just tried - but actually executed), but what's the point.
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u/DanikanSkywalkr 0m ago
Oh... It wasn't a one time attempt. The wooden spoon, the belt, the broom, the backhand diamond ring to the face, the hair pulling, the list goes on
Tbf I was kind of asking for it
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u/RumpEater5000 3h ago
"I wanna beat your ass but I'm not going to"
I'm a millenial and this is definitely how I feel with my kid.
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u/JurorOfTheSalemTrial 3h ago
Same, my mom is a "young" boomber and was beat pretty bad by her dad. She stopped hitting us once we turned four. My dad was a drunk and abusive/toxic. I'm a millennial with a 3-year-old and my wife is pregnant with her with our second. I have never hit my child but I do take shit away. I have cleared out his whole bedroom of stuff he could play with because he kept hitting us. He stopped, now the threat of taking stuff away gets him to correct his behavior. We do lots of timeouts and talks. Imo he's turning into a caring and compassionate little human which is our goal
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u/Odd-Spread-1247 3h ago
I broke one of my mums favourite wooden spoons when she smacked me on the ass with it, I remember feeling a immense sense of victory about the situation.
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u/Careful_Swordfish742 3h ago
Did you snap it after she hit you with it? Or did it snap on you while she was hitting you with it?
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u/Odd-Spread-1247 3h ago
It snapped when she belted me with it, like it broke from her hitting me with it.
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u/Careful_Swordfish742 1h ago
Jfc… I understand the sense of justice you felt from it snapping, but how it snaps changes the context of the situation 😬
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u/Lobster15s 3h ago edited 1h ago
I heard if you don't discipline your kids the world will do it for you and the world is harsher because they have no love for your kids. So far I have not seen this proven wrong. Discipline should be discipline though, not abuse.
Edit: You can discipline your kids through a stern talking to, cutting off allowances, grounding, allowing more chores or whatever is apt. discipline should be discipline though, not abuse.
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u/Biscuits4u2 1h ago
Hitting your kids doesn't really teach them to be good people though. It teaches them to be sneaky and that violence solves problems. Just because your parents hit you and you turned out "fine" doesn't mean it actually helped you in the long run.
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u/HappyAnimalCracker 1h ago
Plus not everyone who thinks they turned out fine actually did.
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u/_Im_at_work 39m ago
Well shit, aint this a truth nuke. I went to therapy with my wife for family therapy, but my biggest revelations came when she couldn't make it and I had to talk to the doc alone. One session put my whole world on its head. Got on some medication and became a much much better parent.
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u/Square_Detective_658 1h ago
That’s actually a misconception. You can do everything right and still get railroaded the world is harsh and unfair. The notion that you can protect your kids by beating them is asinine. All you’re just doing is inviting domestic violence and an unsafe environment in to your home. People have been locked up despite being innocent. Shot for following police instruction and so on. Beating your kids isn’t going to help them avoid arbitrary sentences, harassment, or police violence
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u/timhamilton47 3h ago
The vast majority of people who spank or hit their kids do it because they’re angry in the moment. I’ve never seen anyone coolly and thoughtfully apply corporal punishment to their children.
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u/Dirk41Diggler 2h ago
My brother does, I’m not sure he’s wrong sometimes
Edit: I think the reason the vast majority you’ve seen are angry in the moment is because the ones who do it coolly and calmly are also doing it privately.
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u/These-Invite-1774 3h ago
Millennial, I got the belt and my mom would pull the hell out of my ears
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u/Soggy_Definition_232 2h ago
Belt from dad or wooden spoon from mom. Either way asses were getting beat.
And I deserved every swing.
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u/TheMightyHornet 1h ago
Same. And I’ve absolutely told my kids, “I want to woop your ass right now. When I was a kid, that’s how your grandparents would have responded to what you just did, but I don’t think that shit’s right, so (consequence). Don’t push your luck and make me change my mind.”
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u/themanthyththelegend 8m ago
I thought that was what this was saying. Millennials didn't have ps5s as kids, we were either raised by boomers or gen x.
I thought the meme was about how each generation raises kids. Like boomers and gen x beat ass millenials threaten to take shit or take shit and gen z do whatever that is. Because older gen z are almost 30 already
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u/3nd_of_L1ne 2h ago
As a Gen Xer being beaten by a boomer. I remember the belt swinging so hard and high that my parent broke the lightbulb above me and shards came crashing down on top of me and they still kept beating.
The boomers may have had a bunch of societal and economic advantages over the years but clearly they grew up in a world with really messed up parents. I’m 53 now and still fucked up by my boomer parents.
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u/Sw4nR0ns0n 2h ago
I don’t think this accounts for immigrant parents ijs
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u/slowride15 2h ago
Those of us blessed enough to have immigrant boomer parents.
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u/CaptApplestrawberry 2h ago
Immigrant boomer parents who take zero responsibility for their action.
Wait i think the last part is just redundant for having boomer and or immigrant parents.
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u/Content_Influence_83 3h ago
Im 34 and I got my ass whooped every night almost. Belt, switch, extension cord, telephone cord, wooden spoon a random stick. Pretty much anything in reach if nothing was i got punched and slapped.
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u/Melodic_Let_6465 3h ago
Plunger stick sucked, and i still dont alllw plastic coat hangers in my house
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u/Trick-Seat4901 3h ago
As a gen x I just wanted to say, I'm sorry dude. No generation should do that to anyone. All I can hope is that you don't pass that shit on. One ass whooping is bad, let it stop there.
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u/Even-Celebration9384 3h ago
No one deserves that but what was happening every night that it was a full whooping
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u/TripitakaWukong 2h ago
Same! My mom drilled holes in a big ass wooden boat paddle, and beat me bare butt. Psycho woman. I don't speak to her anymore. Nope.
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u/Calm_Scallion_9879 2h ago
What about the ole jumper cables?
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u/Content_Influence_83 2h ago
Whenever we went out and either i didnt listen or i asked for something i would get in the car they would park by the dumpster or the way back in the parking lot pop the trunk couple whacks then off we went home.
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u/nwPatriot 3h ago
Damn dude, what were you fucking doing? Trying to be tougher than Rocky or some shit?
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u/Content_Influence_83 3h ago
Naw my dad/mom were drunks. Glad both are dead though.
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u/Competitive_Tune6401 3h ago
You good now man?
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u/Lumpy_Past6216 1h ago
Gen X here. For one that boomer beat down was real. 2nd, because of those beat downs I've never hit my kids. Both are great kids too.
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u/SativaIndica0420 3h ago
I'm 1996 and I got my ass beat with a belt, my Xbox taken away, and grounded to my room for 3 weeks.
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u/JetNeoArmstrongCanon 2h ago
Same but they took the power cable and the batteries to my Gameboy.
I obviously had backup cables and batteries.
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u/SativaIndica0420 2h ago
I was too scared for backups—that was just inviting the wrath of god at that point
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u/weezyverse 3h ago
True where?
If your kids need a whooping let me know. I belive in the village...
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u/tsaico 3h ago
You know, when I was a kid, late 70's early 80, I was busted with a buddy of mine stealing ice cream. His mom caught us and she beat both of us and dragged us back to the store to apologize and had the shop keeper put us on a work program to work off the icream value sweeping and mopping.
We also got hit by our teachers at school for different reasons.
I can't imagine nowadays my son's friends parent hitting him for misbehaving and goodness if there was a teacher at school hitting kids... It's something I never really thought about but really is a different time 45 years later
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u/Popular-Row4333 3h ago
If you give the whoopin, that means you need to stay overnight to drive them to ball practice in the morning.
Sorry, those are the rules.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 3h ago
In my mind, spankings should be reserved for correcting a continuous series of bad behavior/attitude.
The "every day" smacks that people talk about and might've even experienced? Now that's wrong. But there's the difference. One is sporadic and done with reason. One is constant and without reason. The later is what I call disgusting behavior from parents.
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u/yuckyuckmuckmuck1234 3h ago
I used to think that way. Reflected on it, it’s cause my parents put this idea in my brain that hitting was for bad things. I don’t even have kids nor will I, but I can tell you that hitting a child for discipline just seems archaic now. You’re instilling a sense of fear of victimization into your children for fear of upsetting their parents. That’s not teaching children a lesson or leading to them to be morally better, that’s just some prison type shit. Idk what the best way to parent a child is, but I know is not with physical violence. And I know that bc I lived it.
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u/coralloohoo 3h ago
I got spanked real hard once, and after that all it took was the threat of being spanked to get me to behave
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u/cacamilis22 3h ago
I know it's not right to say this but it's the main reason kids today run riot and are not afraid of no one. Ass whuupins are gone
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u/Butt_Plug_Tester 3h ago
Yes it is factually incorrect to say that. Beaten kids show greatly increased levels of misbehaviour.
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u/NobodyNose35 3h ago
Bullshit. Only reason I didn’t fuck around in school was because I feared my dad. He didn’t beat me, but I always knew it was a possibility. My older brother fucked around, and I saw what my dad did to him. I didn’t want any part of that.
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u/Standard_Rooster_782 3h ago
There is a difference between discipline and beaten
Spanking is not permanent but it associates bad behavior with accountability and immediate consequences. And they learn and it rarely happens again, they listen to you and will respect your authority when you tell don’t run away from me in a busy mall, or they might get a spanking, because we dont want them to get kidnapped.
Kids who are not disciplined correctly, become unruly adults that will be disciplined by society and their life choices if you don’t do it when their young
They become entitled brats who think they can get away with anything they want because they don’t fear of any repercussions.
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u/Butt_Plug_Tester 2h ago edited 2h ago
Even a little bit of physical abuse, or as you call it “discipline”, causes behavioural issues. I don’t know why you people think it’s ok to hit a kid. Do you think it’s ok to “discipline” your wife? Do you think your kids are subhuman?
Edit: I even hate that I’m saying beating your kids is bad because it causes misbehaviour. It’s true that by beating your kids you do the opposite of what you want, but above all else they are people.
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u/cacamilis22 1h ago
There's a huge difference between beaten and disciplined. I was being sarcastic to a certain degree. Disciplining children and teens has now almost gone out the window
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u/conspirator9 3h ago
Im a millennial who was treated like a boomer.😅
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u/yellowmush 2h ago
The video is talking about boomer parents, gen x parents, etc. not the child being a boomer
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u/Hironoveau 2h ago
I have experienced every ass whopping, such as belt, slippers, wooden baton, cane stick, squatting and holding book, hangers and lastly, my most hated punishment, pulling my sideburn. This pulling hair hurts than any of those ass whopping materials.
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u/TripitakaWukong 2h ago
Growing up, I definitely got spanked. No. I got abused and my mom said it was "proper discipline". Woman tortured my siblings and I. Once she choked me out and punched me over and over cause my puppy chewed these stripper shoes that she never wore.
But know what...I definitely am the parent who just takes the kids "PlayStation" away 😂😅
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u/FantasticCable3663 2h ago
Close but early Millennials got the belt. That talking BS didn’t start until the 90s
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u/logicalpenuin 3h ago
Genx here and my parents never spanked me. You'd have to be around for that. As for parenting, I would never spank my dog.
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u/Front-Structure-293 3h ago
I grew up in the 90’s and I still have my dad’s handprints on my ass. I don’t know what this taking away the PlayStation shit is.
My aunt- Belt or shoe
My other aunt- belt
My grandmother- belt
My grandfather- Hand 🤚
My dad- Hand 🤚
My mother- paddle or wooden spoon.
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u/danthemanfrompak 3h ago
Boomer generation were really into masochism.
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u/heavymetalmater 2h ago
Millennial here and I got spanked with a belt, grounded to my room with everything taken away, and mouth washed out with soap. I didn’t spank my kids who are Gen Z but if they talked to me like that I would have. My Gen Z kids are kind and respectful. My 16 year old son says please, thank you, sir, ma’am, etc. Don’t act like all Gen Z are terrible and raised wrong and don’t pretend like beating little kids is ok please.
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u/NippleTicklesDeluxe 3h ago
I was born in '90 and got my ass spanked outside of a church in front of city hall.Thats just one time lol. Great story though
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u/Danilo-11 2h ago
What generation of parents had moms punching their son in the face? Asking for a friend
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u/2Easy2See 2h ago
In all the generations in my family, cursing at parents didn’t exist. That’s some shit I only saw on tv
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u/reluctantlysharing 2h ago
This kid on my sons baseball team must have gen-z parents because I legit hear this little mf talk to his mom just like that lmao and one time I said something to this kid and she, the mom, yelled at me! I couldn’t believe it.
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u/LazyMousse3598 2h ago
For some years there, we lived under the “threat” of a big buckled belt hanging in the dining room. Those were the days. 🙄
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u/404GirlHumorNotFound 1h ago
Aah yes, childhood memories 😍
I got the boomer beatings and the Gen x screams as my childhood as a millennial.
Weekly or daily basis, and why? Fuck you Olivia, that's why!
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u/Ok-Room9061 1h ago
I deserve every "beatin" (belt to ass.) . My brother(8) and I (4) tore apart the lawnmower, parts, bolts, springs... that was a gauntlet of ass whoppin'
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u/Maxipaddington 1h ago
1980-1995
Taking away the PlayStation???
The PlayStation that released in September of 1995?
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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 42m ago
Baby Boomers are 1946-1965/65.
My grandparents are elder boomers and my mom swears she is Gen-X but she is, in fact, a youngest boomer.
Grandparents used the switch, parents went with the “bust in and start swinging that belt around” approach.
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u/red-lioness007 36m ago
Millennial here. My dad used a wood spoon then upgraded to a 1ft. metal ruler. It was quicker and we’d be out of his office faster after punishment.
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u/All_Usernames_Tooken 25m ago
Take away phone, internet and friend access and force them to read a book or study. Being grounded and correctly behavior is pivotal in preventing disobedience.
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u/tactical_flipflops 23m ago
I remember the first one. No explanation, no talking just ass beating with a belt.
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u/kitchencrawl 20m ago
My dad was abusive until I got old enough to fight back. I beat the living fuck out of my dad when I was 15. Our relationship is better now but I still remind him every holiday that I could of killed him if I was as mean as he was.
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u/carlos5577 5m ago
“Did I just catch you wanting to be?” Never had abusing parents but know kids who did at that age.
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u/SuperbIndependence90 4m ago
The Baby Boomer generation usually refers to those born between 1946 and 1964.
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u/thewereotter 3h ago
oh those boomers with all that good lead gasoline exhaust in the air. that stuff makes you real angry and stupid
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