Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones

I think of my sweet nephew who went on his first date and brought roses.

Abusive stereotype? Maybe just don’t bully anyone? Then the claim cannot be made. I think what you mean is if you liked a girl you wouldn’t bully her.

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You shouldn’t bully anyone, jerk!

Aww!

It should be the other way around too. The fact that people don't acknowledge that men can have abusive girlfriends is sickening. Freaking psycho.

Right. It's sickening and revictimization. The whole "you made your bed..." crap

THis applies to girls too. THey can be abusive too, you psycho.

I would question if its even a debate,to me it seems more like folks making say 13-18$ an hour feel threatened. They had to work their way up to that point generally and do not want it handed to folks for what they precieve as nothing. The fact is lost that by doing so you are enabling businesses to be welfare queens. They dont pay enough to live but still make plenty of profit and the government ( AKA - your own taxes dollars from your 13-18/hr job) has to subsidize these folks with cash. food stamps etc. Its a very shortsighted and fear driven response. javascript:void(0);

Not all jobs are meant to be a long term living position. Like flipping burgers. It's all about personal responsibility. You want to make more money then get a skill and offer more to an employer. Move up in that same restaurant. You can't enable the poor to stay poor.

I'm more concerned about having health insurance.

What is the difference between the poor and the rich? Starts with the letter M.... It's not Money, it's Mindset. The motivation to advance and get ahead! Flipping burgers is where you start not where you end. But enabling the poor to stay in a dead end job is enabling the poor to stay poor. I care about the poor!

Anything else is slavery.

While you are correct - this is primarily a U.S based issue... no other developed country has this issue (at least not to that extent). The insane lust for money above all else is an issue of your own creation - and something that, as a country, you clearly have no interest in fixing.

Gen X here. 47. Married 22yrs and we never had kids (by choice). I knew I didn't want kids since I was a small child. Many boomers and others said I would regret it. I can with absolute certainty say BEST CHOICE EVER. I've made mistakes but this was not one of them. As I get older, I appreciate my choice more. It's cruel & selfish to bring kids into a literal burning planet. Until we rectify this, we condemn our kids to "The Road" distopian future.

That weird spot between Millennial and Gen X here. Married 9 years, childfree by choice. Preach on, Kallen and Clarissa.

Boomers aren’t the ones at fault—we were fortunate enough to have effective birth control; it was the Greatest Generation that brought on the baby boom (hence...boomers). My mother had five children, but we managed to keep our output reasonable: I had none, brother no. 1 had one, my sister veered out of control with three (two with her first husband, one with her second, and none with the third and fourth), brother no. 2 had two, but one of them died when he was 10, and my youngest brother had one. My sister’s oldest son has one child, her second is schizophrenic, and the third is severely mentally impaired, so that all keeps those numbers low.

China is now encouraging children because their population growth is lacking.

Actually it is not one single generation's fault that there is too many persons on this planet. Persons have a natural inclination to see space, and then want to fill it up with something. Global warming and disposable products began before boomers, and we all have to hold major contributors responsible more than one generation and particular individuals. I am talking to you corporate fossil fuel, water bottling, disposable everything companies.

Wow Kallen you are a breath of fresh air.... thank you for saying that! When I was younger, I wanted kids, but as I got older I realised there were things I wanted to accomplish and, quite frankly, never found myself in a position where I could provide a proper life for them. The older I'm getting, the less it seems like I will have any. And I'm OK with that.... but you have boomers telling you, you are selfish.... your words mean more than you may know!

I'm sorry did you just say that YOU are responsible for all those Chinese and Indian babies?

Actually not exactly. There are far too many people living in Asia. By comparison the rest of the world is virtually empty.

I have worked for the US Forest Service for many years. Even they have backed off the idea of government funded pensions. People who retired decades years ago had it better. But for the last twenty years or so the brunt of government retirement falls on the individuals contribution to their 401k.

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then stop voting for people who do this to you. its not inevitable, its a choice ...

Seriously, look into starting your own pension fund. You control it and it goes with you when you change jobs. The sooner you can start it, the more you'll accumulate.

The worst I heard was from a woman living alone in Toronto (an expensive city) and making minimum wage. Her boss turned down her request for a raise: "You don't have a kid, you don't have a mortgage, you don't have a car. You don't need more money." As if he would give her a big enough raise to cover those costs.

You should be telling them "Be grateful you have employees."

In all of the meetings we get told and literally mean told, that we have these jobs because of our customers and not because what we do, so skill lately has no value.

I'm sorry, you're commenting on BP, you're in no position to call a cell phone a luxury.

An inexpensive cell phone costs as much as a landline. And you can communicate the way everyone else does, not carrier pigeon. Get over yourself.