Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why Millennial Parents Are Having Problems Raising Gen Z and Alpha" video.

  1.  @Tynab  Never deal with your children in anger. Everyone gets angry, but it better only be like once a year or something. If you're angry with your children, they'll be angry with their children. "Gentle but firm" is the old saying. I see a lot of moms and some dads who want to be their kids' friend more than they want to be their parent. That doesn't mean you should be unfriendly to your kids. But you have to set boundaries and stick to them. Kids will test their boundaries, and if you show weakness, they'll try to walk all over you, forever. If they can beg and wheedle to get their way after you told them "no," they will beg and wheedle all the time. That's where fathers are supposed to come in. "No means no" dads. There are some moms who understand this, but not the vast majority. Rather than telling the kid 5 times to do something and getting louder and more threatening each time, just calmly assess the punishment, whatever it is. Kids actually prefer clear boundaries. When you see a kid throwing a tantrum in the grocery store, you know there's bad parenting going on. You're the adult. Behave as an adult. Too many let themselves be dragged down to the child's level.
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  2. It started with the boob tube as baby-sitter, while Mom & Dad did their own thing. In many ways, the Internet REVEALS problems more than it CAUSES problems. Boomers were raised by "tradition for tradition's sake," and rebelled. This left the Boomers rudderless, because they had(have) no clue what to replace the traditions with. Boomer generation was raised in a very permissive atmosphere. There was a bifurcation in the next generation: Some just became even more permissive and left-wing. Others rebelled against the decadence and hypocrisy of their permissive, self-indulgent parents. It was only starting in the '70s, but the public-school indoctrination flipped from tradition for tradition's sake, to reject tradition and hop on the Maoist bandwagon, because capitalism is the Great Satan. I think as a late Boomer, I'd've been better off with private schooling than the dumbed-down instruction that really started kicking in as the hippies became the teachers. But I still got the traditional indoctrination, for the most part. The Pilgrims would've stayed in Holland, were it not for the schools and indoctrination with which they disagreed that went on there.
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