Parenting is already stressful enough in 2023. Sure, we now have better gadgets and pediatric science to help us along our parenting journey. But millennial parents now have the stress of civil unrest and a deteriorating environment. How can you raise a happy child to be lively and enthusiastic for life when you're not even sure there will be a planet when they're older? It's parenting with a heaping pour of existential dread.
Another thing millennial parents are admitting to additionally be taking on as new parents is dismantling the generational trauma that has run rampant in their family for generations. For example, remember how your mom would see you enjoying a little snack and she's say "a moment on the lips, forever on the hips!" and shame you into body dysmorphia? Well, now as a parent yourself, you might not want to make it any easier for your child to develop an eating disorder, so you don't comment on their appetite. It's difficult to explain this "break of tradition" to your boomer parents. They immediately take offense because that's how they raised you and they couldn't have possibly done anything wrong…
Well, one millennial mom has had enough. Her boomer parents are controlling and toxic. In the same conversation of her boomer parents giving her a list of their own personal demands for her child's birthday party and bashing her in-laws, her boomer mom was also able to get in that she needed to lose weight because this new millennial mom hadn't lost all of the baby-weight yet after giving birth…
Rightfully so, this millennial mom wants to un-invite her boomer parents. They are stressful and make something that is already stressful like a toddler birthday party even more difficult. She turned to Reddit to ask if that was cold hearted of her and hundreds of people came to her side in support, some even saying she wasn't being harsh enough. What would you do? Read the entire situation for yourself below along with some Redditor responses.
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