And let's not forget the "Have You Hugged Your Kid Today" commercial reminding our parents not to take their shit out on us .....my favorite line of that song "I'm so mad I could slap your face" . Try airing that on TV today....😂😂

Where did you get film of me????

Not all gen xers were raised by BOOMERS. My parents were the silent generation. NOT BOOMERS.

Siblings?

Really… 😂 I’m surprised they didn’t kill and eat us.

I don't know why I cried during that. But Slim Sherri - you are the real deal spokesperson for us Gen X'ers.

I'm 64 and British and you make me laugh out loud. Yes our childhood was as you say brutal.

A born in 59 but can so relate to this.

I was born and raised in NYC. As a Gen X.. I was roaming NYC by myself at 9 years old. Lol

Not too much different.

We, the Gen X are the proverbial Trojan Horse. We unleashed our spawn, the Gen Z, into this World and they're going to save us all. Deal with it!😅😅❤

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Profanity is considered by the majority of society to be uncouth. It has nothing to do with one's physical attractiveness. Used appropriately, it can and does add or expand meaning to what was said before or after.. and it is actually more effective in that case when used sparingly rather than as a staple of every sentence. As for if it is considered attractive on the 'personality' level or not.. that is subjective so each person will have varying degrees of interpretation of whether it is attractive or not in that context. Some people despise swearing and those who do.. while others are drawn to such individuals. As for myself.. I have been known to swear offhandedly on occasion though I do not do so in every sentence.. and I find 'personality' attractiveness more with those who are the same or similar.. not excessively cussing but also not prudish in their speech. To be honest.. most of the time when I do swear it is an outburst at a negative outcome in a game.. and even then it is not a rant.. it is a single word expression and then I get on with my life LOL

I'm right there with you!! I'm 53!

I was fortunate enough to be raised by the microgen between Silent Gen and Boomers. So, a little more considerate and paying attention to me and my brother than by Boomers. I learned to drink from the hose from my dad because it was there and why bother going inside to dirty a glass that would need to be washed? Also, was rural so it was slightly different. Not that it wasn't challenging, though.

Okay I think this is going to be an unpopular opinion but let’s consider some things before bashing our parents… Kids born in the generations before Gen X weren’t coddled or followed around everywhere by their parents either. Kids born before Gen X got spankings too. Paddling was not only common but acceptable in schools. More kids had stay at home moms prior to Gen X. Many kids in Gen X had moms who worked because somewhere along the way they were told being *just* a stay at home mom wasn’t fulfilling and they were missing out on things. There were far more divorces for parents of Gen Xers because more men and women mingled in the workplace and started fooling around. There was more drinking and drug use because people were stressed out in their personal lives dealing with all of the problems that came along with the lifestyles they were now living. Kids now are being raised by screens mostly and schools aren’t enforcing any rules because they don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. Speech is being stifled by our government (who are mostly boomers and Gen Xers still) because it might offend someone. We SHOULD be able to suck it up or brush it off but now no one can because they haven’t been taught how to handle problems. Why? Because their parents have taken away their ability to problem solve by taking away any obstacles in their paths because they want things to be easier for them. Sounds great on paper until you see the statistics on divorce, depression/anxiety, crime, unemployment, etc. Gen Xers have done their children no favors in this situation by soft parenting. “Hard times create strong men/Strong men create good times/Good times create weak men/Weak men create hard times.” Just take a look at men now and the times we are facing. Could our parents have done things differently? Sure. Gen X over correcting for the mistakes our parents made have caused a cascade of issues that honestly have made people worse in general though.

I’m gen x, mom was awesome dad was a workaholic, divorced before I was 2 and yes had all the gen x experiences with street lights, garden hoses, getting spanked with tree switches or whatever was handy at the time. Was told that if someone started a fight with me I damn well better finish it or when I got home I’d be getting my butt kicked. Let me say something, u grew up tough, I fought, words didn’t hurt me, matter of fact our motto was sticks n stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Today’s kids would never be able to handle that, they believe words (they disagree with) are violence. These same kids never got rapped in the beak for talking smack. They never had someone come to their front door and call them out for the smack they talked. Kids today aren’t tough.

We didn't even need the note...store owner knew us..

I tried to raise my kid like I was raised, she just ran to my parents because she thought I was being mean. Then my parents told me not to raise her like they raised me cause it is wrong. WTF The youth are weak because they got babied after the boomers became grandparents and got a conscious as far as I am concerned.

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My parents are great. How ever I am a Navy brat and we were raised to be respectful but also to not take shit. Seen and not heard was due mostly for when I was on Base with my Dad. Alot of people I know didn't have both parents living in the same house..yes when I was not on Base with my dad, I was just as feral as the rest 😂. My mom was a cop before she had me so there's that to

So true

My mother was a boomer and my father was a WWII baby. They were the most horrible human beings I've ever known. My father got his kicks from using me as his personal punching bag. My mother was cold and distant and put that abusive turd above everything. I came last. She used me as a sacrificial lamb. They would get into a fight and then he would take it out on me. She still defends him and he's been dead for 20 years now. What's really sick is when you realize my parents met when my father was 32 and my mother was 16. He was a pedophile just like his father. Then his father beat his first wife to death. And people wonder why I'm the darkest person they've ever met

Well, not only was I raised like this but I was beaten within an inch of my life. Fists and steel toed boots beaten. So yeah, I'm an amazing mother. But I have taught my children how hard it is to be a good person in a toxic world. So my kids are grounded and just as loving as I am. Yeah, I poured all my love into them. I would never allow them to suffer the way I did. Are they as strong as me? No. You have to suffer adversity to grow strength. But they are good people and now they are suffering through their own adversity. People need to be thankful for their challenges in life. They are a gift from God. They help you grow. They help you evolve.

I’m a baby boomer and you just described me. We survived amazingly

I’m an older X and I was raised by Silent Generation. My mom was a loving little kid mom who was home in the afternoons, but it stops there. I was assaulted every day at junior high by a boy who would grab my crotch and Iranian students on the public bus who would grab our butts DAILY. All my mom would say was “boys will be boys” (the Iranian students were young MEN) and “it just means they like you.” When a bully was going to kick my ass, my mom “couldn’t be bothered” to come to the school to get me. And I was grounded for even perceived slights. I never had kids because my mom’s life of acting like a 50’s housewife in the 70’s seemed so shitty.

You must be proud & thankful to have them be in your corner like that🫣 😂🤣 🫡

Graduated in 1981.... DONE💯.... UNTIL COLLEGE STARTED IN FALL. OH YEAH, THE AGREEMENT MY PARENT'S AND i had.... LOL🫡

I'm 67..my keyring says " A wise woman once said Fuck this shit..and she lived happily ever after " words to live by.

EXACTLY💯 I HAD AN ARM LIKE A ROCKETT LAUNCHER TOO, AND A LETTER IN ALL SPORTS WHO IRONICALLY HASN'T EVEN BEEN HIT BUT A HANDFUL OF TIMES.... ONLY TO GO TO COLLEGE AND LEARN I ONLY HAD A 3% RATE OF SURVIVAL..... AND I WON🤣😂 T LAUNCHER.... KEYWORD BEING "HAD", BUT IT'S SERVED ME VERY WELL THROUGHOUT MY LIFE💯😂🤣 AND TBH, STILL DOES OCCASIONALLY💯 🫡

Oh my goodness! The 10pm PSA! And let's not forget the curfew sirens that went off every night too. 😂

Yup. Me all day!! 😂😂😂

I love you you always make me laugh lol

Silent generation? **Ponders** My grandparents were born in 1918 and 1920. I was real close with em. I was closer to my grandparents than my parents. Grampa understood me. He said I was just like one of his older brothers. Ever since I was diagnosed with autism 5 years ago a question has been on my mind - I wonder if he was autistic as well? According to my grandfather (who died in 2013) he and I were both visual learners, had issues with social skills, were both recluses (which I still am - 25 years in January), hated people/society in general, and we're both visual learners. My parents? Deny, deny, deny. Especially my father. If I wasn't normal, then that was a reflection on Mom and Dad and they weren't going to have any of that. Autism wasn't exactly something that was diagnosed in the 80s, especially not in my area. Best you could hope for would be anti-social, lack of self esteem, and severe depression. The solution? Throw the kid in social situations and hope for the best....which only pushed me into isolation more. Didn't help that my peers and the class above me hounded me everyday to torment me. Bullied every single day of my school life. 1 for my speech impediments (the letter R and the sh sounds - and yes, had speech therapy) that landed me in trouble. As an example, one of my classmates was named Ashley - and her brother didn't appreciate what I called her. Another reason was that I was ridiculously shy. Always been the type to approach people when I'm comfortable and if I'm not, it ain't gonna happen. Crazy quiet too, until someone earned my trust. That part has always been with me. And lastly, I hated being touched. I never did react well to any kind of physical contact. Being beat up all the time by my peers didn't help. Meh, what can ya do? Me, I resent my past. Letting go has proven to be an impossibility. I've tried everything to no avail. Well, not hypnotism. I refuse to do that. Goes against my beliefs. Welp, I ended up rambling. Some autistics are long winded verbally, some (like me) are long winded through writings. Parents didn't accept that I was different till I was 14 and 15. They had to acknowledge it after trips to hospitals all over the state. Endocrinologists. I wasn't going through puberty and it was having a bad effect on me. New ways of torture with my peers. Was on hrt for a while, hoping it would trigger puberty, but it didn't. All I got out of it was height and big feet. Literally folks, that's it. And then I fell in a gasoline fire. 3rd degree burns on both legs. I didn't handle the pain well. I get night terrors to this day of the treatment that I was given. That's the reason why I keep medical tape, gauze, bandages, and cocoa butter (not the cream) around at all times. Night terrors hit and I itch my legs bloody and raw. You'd think after 32 years they'd go away, but no. **Sigh** Parents (20 years older than me) never acknowledged I was different psychologically till 5 years ago when I was diagnosed with autism....and even then, my father still has trouble acknowledging it. It's the reason he and I haven't spoken to each other for the last 4 months. Mom blames herself for my physical issues (I'm a natural born eunuch...longer rant than before, so I won't go there unless asked - she was on Lupron -- clinical trial for morning sickness, that's the official reason -- while pregnant with me) so I can't really delve into the whole autism thing with her that much. She mainly refuses to go there. I think my parents were ill equipped for me personally in the 80s. My younger sister is normal, but my youngest sister is a lot like me, minus having autism. She's a recluse as well. And she was tormented in school too. Parents refused to let us drop out and chalked up bullying to the same crap they had to deal with as they grew up. Though they did finally accept that we had it worse. Kinda had to since both myself and youngest sister were suicidal when we were younger. Parents found it hard to believe what we had to deal with and apologized quite a bit. We both didn't turn out well for this world. Youngest sister mainly has depression and hates people. Me, I have physical and psychological (extreme anxiety issues) issues up the wazoo. The price of long term isolation. None of us kids have children. I for obvious reasons, and younger sisters don't want em. Younger sister is the only one who got married. So it goes. These days I email and write letters to youngsters dealing with kallmanns syndrome who can't afford treatment. Pass on what I learned the hard way in trying to handle being physically different than everyone else. With permission from parents, of course. Won't go ahead without permission in all things that need to be discussed. No kid should have to endure even a quarter of the BS I had to deal with. It's one of the few positive things in my life. Helps keep me sane. And I rambled again...mrrh. I caught myself though!

all true...but then they shit on us.

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The Boomers were selfish and neglectful. Even the hippy ones. I was babysitting younger kids at 8yrs.

Always so true, making great humour.... All the depressing stuff that is reality right now - 2mins of pleasure (been married a long time now, so forgot what 2mins of pleasure feels like 👀) - love ya Slim Sherry from Aus...

I miss Saturday cartoons it was the best , we should demand to have it back then I would buy me a box of coco puffs and strawberry milk miss that❤

When me and my sister would argue my dad used to smack both of us that way he got the one who started it and a warning to the other not to start any more shit 😂😂

Those of us who had silent gen parents knew silent in words meant talking with your fists. One of my friends growing up moved into a small little hideout we had made in a fallen over silo because it was better than getting beat up by his father every time the man got drunk. (Which was every night.) It had all the comforts of home if you didn't count water or electricity. His girlfriend moved in there with him when she got tired of fending off her mother's latest boyfriend. We put the place together for a hangout for skipping school, it turned into the sanctuary of last resort for 2 lost Gen-Xer kids.

It’s funny how so many of us Gen Xer’s suffered the same fate.It’s like all the parents across the country met up and agreed on a standardized protocol and standard phrases. Such as the beating of asses, locking out of the house, washing mouths out with soap, ringing of necks, being chased with wooden spoons, sticking of boots up asses, getting the belt, having us cut our own switch from a tree that we would then be hit with. Our parents were some of the greatest torture artists to ever walk the earth.

And my trust issues started when my mom put raisins in chocolate chip cookies and said they were chocolate ships. Then she laughed aloud when I made a face. I called her out and got slapped for it. never trusted her since. And to this day, I NEVER used raisins in anything. They were not allowed in My house.

When you're raised by boomers and the silent era you learn lots and can adapt to anything.

Cause heaven forbid you get a glass dirty (cause you dared to have a drink of water from it)! You better have washed, dried and put it away exactly where it came from! 😮

Your foundation is too dark/orange and not blended into your neck.

I'm sorry, but I'm not mad at my childhood. I wasn't abused. Yes, I stayed outside, and in the woods, but I wanted to. I got spankings, but Lord knows I needed them. I admit it, I was really bad sometimes. We GenX folks are some of the best people in the world. We are hard workers. We have morals and values. We are worldly smart. That's valuable. We learned valuable lessons, and learned to work out our problems on our own. Soft parenting dosen't work. It's basically treating the children like babies forever, and then, letting them run the show. We got the tail wagging the dog here. It's not a wonder that they can't handle every day life. We would have laughed at someone if they had mentioned a safe space. I mean, seriously. 😂 Most of them don't have a clue how to navigate through life without melting down in the bathroom at work because somebody used the "wrong" pronouns. Speaking of bathrooms, they all even seem to be confused on which bathroom to use. Those children are ruined. When I look around, what I see is the majority of us turned out pretty great, and the majority of our children are spoiled, clueless, and are no where near prepared for life. So, you must ask yourself, who really did a better job at parenting? Who turned out better? I mean, isn't that the ultimate goal? To prepare them for adulthood. If think some of us missed the mark on that one. I would say that answer to my question is painfully obvious. If you don't like how your childhood went, then you gotta rise above your raisin. Only, some people went to extremes, and in turn, absolutely ruined their children. It's really sad. I'm sure there were kids that were abused. I'm not denying that, and I'm really sorry if that kid was you. You didn't deserve that. Nobody does.❤ I just want to say that I really love your channel. This is just my opinion.❤

So boomers raised X and the world didn’t go to shit. Then X raised millennials and it did. So is X responsible?

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Why am I 39 and feel 25... What's up with that lol