Thought about this at a restaurant today as we observed several completely unparented kids walk all over their millennial parents.

My own parents (Boomers) used shame and scorn on us (Gen X), whether we’d done something or not. They regularly told us how much they resented having to feed and cloth us. Expensive, inconvenient little pigs. Hitting was on the table but their tongues were worse.

Our son was given love and reasonable boundaries. Trauma cycle ended.