Why Millennials Are Calling Out Gen X Parenting | The Harsh Truth

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:00]Gen X is worse than baby boomers. That's what they keep telling me to talk about. I made a video on it. Gen X is worse than baby boomers.

[00:00:14]Let's get into it. Make sure y'all hit the like and the hype video. Welcome to the channel. Let's go.

[00:00:19]Say what you want about Gen Z, Gen Alpha, Millennials. I don't care. The most deranged generation in recent times has been Gen X. There's something seriously seriously wrong with them.

[00:00:33]Every Karen I've ever met has been a Gen X. They all need therapy, but somehow they don't believe in it. They all have a terrible relationship with food. Like genuinely sometimes I just sit here and I'm like, what happened in the 70s besides that commercial that would play that's like, do you know where your children are?

[00:00:53]Shouldn't you know? Shouldn't you know where your children are? They also just had like hella serial killers from that generation. Hella. What is wrong? It's got to be parents taking like drugs in the 70s and then having babies, right?

[00:01:11]Right? Probably not. It's probably just the way things were.

[00:01:15]Anyways, I don't like you.

[00:01:18]A lot of Gen X parents failed their children whether they like to admit it or not. And I say that because a lot of Gen Xers were raised by boomers. And boomers came from a generation where children were seen and not heard. They were very strict on discipline and respect, what they thought was discipline and respect. And they had a very stern hand and what they said went.

[00:01:40]You didn't question them. You could not question anything. It was what I said goes. What I say is it, that's nothing else. Like you couldn't even ask why because I said so. That was it. There was no question.

[00:01:52]And so because of that, when Gen Xers became parents, a lot of the GenXers kept that same ideology.

[00:02:00]Meaning, they were very strict, they had a very firm hand, they did not play, you did not question them, children were seen and not heard.

[00:02:07]They did not talk to their children, they did not explain anything to their children, it was just what they said.

[00:02:15]The problem with that is this.

[00:02:18]When you do not explain to a child what they are doing wrong, why it is wrong, why is it impactful, what what impact will it have on them or others in the future, just clearly lay it all down for them, they don't really learn, they don't know. They just know that you don't like it, you told them not to do it, so they don't do it.

[00:02:38]See, that type of parenting it did not teach children discipline and respect, it just taught them to shut up and do what you say because they didn't want to hear your mouth, they didn't want to get into trouble.

[00:02:52]But, it didn't really teach them anything. I Just so you know, this is a commentary channel. I paused the video to speak.

[00:03:00]Just letting you know now before I don't want to hear it in the comments, I'm telling you right now.

[00:03:05]They were so afraid to speak up or to be themselves or express themselves. So, they just shut up and did what you said to keep you happy, but when you weren't around, they could be them their true self, and you just didn't know about it.

[00:03:18]Because they were not allowed to express themselves. And what a lot of GenX parents did not understand is that did not actually teach them discipline or respect.

[00:03:28]>> Right. Because they have no sense of self-control, setting a goal, achieving it, any of that, and all of that comes with discipline. It's a part of self-discipline. They have no critical thinking skills, no no way to they don't have any communication skills because they were not allowed to communicate their feelings.

[00:03:50]When something happened, they were told to shut up because it is what I say.

[00:03:55]What I say goes. And so now you have a group of children who cannot communicate, who cannot express themselves, who have no self-control.

[00:04:06]And it's all because people felt like children should have no voice. They were truly treated like second-class citizens. And that is not what I am talking about when I talk about discipline and respect.

[00:04:20]The other issue I feel like happened with Gen X parents is Gen Xers, we came from a generation of Reaganomics. It was really a lot of Gen Xers who were on the struggle bus. And I mean struggling.

[00:04:36]But we had what we needed, but we didn't have the things we wanted. Our parents could not afford that. We were truly on the struggle bus, a lot of us. And we came from also a generation that when you went to school, honey, we started the fashion shows at school.

[00:04:50]Everybody wore their fresh kicks and their clothes. And everybody, you know, if you didn't have the flyest gear, people talked about you, you know, picked on you. Our generation was very big on that. So when Gen Xers started to have children, they never wanted their children to feel how they felt.

[00:05:08]So I can't tell what generation she is.

[00:05:11]I'm a little lost on that. So if you know, leave it in the comments below.

[00:05:15]They started to give their children everything that they felt they didn't have.

[00:05:21]>> Right. I mean they just showered them with things. They never wanted them to feel like they felt.

[00:05:27]They also never explained to their children when they really couldn't afford those things. They didn't talk about we are struggling. We don't have the money for that. They just put up this fake facade of I got it and I'm going to make sure you have it. Even though sometimes they didn't need it.

[00:05:45]And what that caused is a huge sense of entitlement. They the generation that expects people to give give give without them doing anything for it. There is no sense of work ethic. There is no sense of you know, you come up with half I'll give you the other half. You work a little bit for it. You you work an inch I'll give you a mile. We took away the work ethic from our children because we gave so much because we felt like we did not have enough.

[00:06:18]And so these two things have caused a trickle-down effect. So now you have a huge generation of entitled children who feel like they are deserving of everything without giving anything and they have no way to communicate their feelings. They have no way to express what they're feeling. So they're just always mad and angry and they blow up which comes out as a sign of no discipline and disrespect because they have no idea of how to communicate and express themselves.

[00:06:54]And I know they're grown. Most of the Gen Xers children are grown and so there is no way to correct it. All I can do is continue to speak out and I talk to my children about it, you know, about the way they're raising their children and I'm very proud. Um but we single-handedly um Gen Xers ruined a lot of our children with our ideology of the way we raised our children. So I posted a video on my backup page. You can go check it out talking about how sorry these Gen X uh parents of ours are. Not only were they garbage parents, but now they're even worse and garbage grandparents, right?

[00:07:36]>> out to the creator I've been arrogant, but I think his name is Benny.

[00:07:41]Big shout out to him.

[00:07:42]Even explained like why I think it is, and I was basically like, it's because either they're so consumed with debt from [ __ ] off their life, and they they had to work still work a lot, or they're just too busy still living their life and like having fun cuz, you know, they they did their job and they raised us and we turned 18 and we had to go and and get out their house, right?

[00:08:05]>> Mhm. And and and I said all of what I said in that video just for them to get their triggered old crusty asses in my comments and prove my [ __ ] point.

[00:08:15]Let's see some of the comments. I'm tired. Full-time job, full-time mother, nobody gave me a break. I never asked, so nobody better expect me to babysit or start over.

[00:08:26]I have a career. I work full-time. My grandma never worked outside the home.

[00:08:30]We don't want to raise kids the rest of our lives. As Gen X, we still don't care. Our job is to spoil them when we want to, not when y'all want us to.

[00:08:40]I'm 54. I'm still going to work. I don't lie, but when I get off work for the weekend, I'm not trying time my weeks just to free up the parents of my grand of for my grandchildren. We tried to tell y'all to wait to have kids or don't have so many, but y'all ain't listen. We spent all our time making sure you had what we did. It's our turn now. Nothing wrong with putting our needs first for change.

[00:09:08]We [laughter] didn't ask y'all to raise our children.

[00:09:10]Y'all barely raised us. Facts.

[00:09:12]>> Y'all was at Facts.

[00:09:15]Facts.

[00:09:18]Love you, grandma.

[00:09:19]running the streets. We was just in the house.

[00:09:22]Most of us understand that y'all sucked as [ __ ] parents. All we're asking for y'all to do is just be better for your grandchildren.

[00:09:30]>> Grandchildren, right.

[00:09:31]>> But y'all are so that guilt be hitting y'all.

[00:09:34]And and y'all y'all so and y'all got this this this gaslighting tactic where y'all like to rewrite history and change the past of the [ __ ] y'all did and y'all do and then gaslight us and make it seem like it's our fault and we're like entitled when all a [ __ ] asked y'all was to not keep up with your grandchildren through our Facebook posts.

[00:09:54]Call your [ __ ] grandkids. Hell, take them to Chick-fil-A on a weekend or something here and there. Nobody's asking y'all to raise our children.

[00:10:02]I guarantee y'all most of y'all wouldn't know y'all grandbabies' birthdays if the if y'all children didn't post the picture on their Facebook for y'all to for y'all to remember. Oh [ __ ] it's grandbaby birthday today. Let me send some money. But like I said, y'all and then the response is oh well we lived our life da da da. Okay.

[00:10:24]Keep Keep First of all, half of them didn't even They're like, "Well, I'm 45.

[00:10:27]I'm not Gen X, dumbass." Yes, you are.

[00:10:30]Gen X is from 45 to 60 years old.

[00:10:34]Like that's how stupid y'all are. But like I said, remember that.

[00:10:38]Remember these lives y'all living in them meals and them house >> Gen X and Millennials, too, so.

[00:10:45]All that [ __ ] that y'all That's the excuses y'all have as to why y'all can't call your grandbabies or see your grandbabies or whatever.

[00:10:54]Remember that when you 65, 70, you can't work no more, right?

[00:11:01]And you got to be up in that nursing or you be like, "Okay, but some of them was like, well I got money. I I got some money to for somebody to take care of me." Okay, just cuz you got the money to pay for your aftercare, your your later years of care, don't mean them people going to give a [ __ ] about you. There's plenty of people especially And yeah, if anybody know about nursing homes, when they know you are the old [ __ ] who ain't got nobody that's checking up on them and coming to see them and make sure everything's squared away, you get treated like [ __ ] Mhm. You get treated like [ __ ] because they know you ain't got nobody and they're going to keep taking that money that y'all bragging about every month for your expenses. And remember that when you sitting up in that nursing home with a full diaper and [ __ ] on your ass because they ignoring you and they they abusing you, beating your ass, flipping you out the [ __ ] bed, taking your cable remote, you can't watch TV, or them houses and them cars that y'all work and love so much for and work every day cuz you can't cuz you raised your kid and you sitting up in that house on them holidays on that Christmas, on that Thanksgiving in that house [ __ ] empty. But then you look on Facebook and Instagram and you see your kids with the grand and all the siblings hanging out and they in a in the renting out cabins and spending the holidays with each other and you sitting in a [ __ ] empty ass house because they don't want no contact and they'll cut your dumb ass off.

[00:12:17]>> Mhm. Like you wonder why the family unit and the family structure is [ __ ] failing now. It's because these selfish ass Gen X grandparents and these parents of ours did not take up the mantle that our grandparents left when they went to the ground. They so selfish and and self-centered. Oh, I did my raised my kids. And instead and then they like, well, my parents didn't do this for me.

[00:12:40]So, instead of doing better for your children showing them differently, >> Right.

[00:12:44]>> you chose to be selfish and and just pass the same and just just be vindictive and do you know, and pass that to your children. And you can say a lot about millennials, but one thing we will do is relate to our children.

[00:12:58]That's one thing we will do. We might be childish than a [ __ ] Play with your but we will be able to relate to our children. Y'all can't say that. Hey, that's that's the argument that they're that they're putting out about Gen X and I'mma tap into it because um yeah, I can relate a whole bunch.

[00:13:16]Um make sure y'all hit the like button.

[00:13:18]Now, let's get into it, man.

[00:13:20]Um when I speak from my perspective on uh Gen X, right? I'm speaking from the perspective of a person that has Gen X parents, but I was raised by my grandmother for the most part, you know?

[00:13:34]My parents were there, but my grand my grandmother is the one that raised me for the most part, okay?

[00:13:42]Uh my grandmother was silent generation.

[00:13:45]So, again, I never had a boomer grandparent. I don't know what that is to to to experience that. If you do have a boomer parent, which most of y'all do, or grandparent, let me know in the comments below. I was raised by my grandmother, okay?

[00:14:03]Um Gen X are the same generation that used to drop us off at grandma house so they can go to the club on the weekend. It's still some It's some of y'all that do that [ __ ] now. I don't know if the club thing still a thing. It's some people that still do that [ __ ] now.

[00:14:21]All right? The other thing, too, is the vast majority of Gen Xers that I know, a lot of y'all, as the woman in the first video reference, um need therapy.

[00:14:34]A lot of y'all need therapy. A lot of y'all are the ones that are in the comment section talking political [ __ ] on Facebook all day long. Y'all need therapy.

[00:14:44]Y'all need therapy. A lot of y'all battling severe depression. Bipolar is the number one thing. Severe depression, anxiety, all kind of crazy stuff.

[00:14:55]And y'all just dump it off on everybody else and spew your venom online. That's it.

[00:15:00]Right? The cowardice that aches me is how y'all don't have anything to say or do about anything, but you're just so outspoken about everything.

[00:15:13]Right?

[00:15:15]Us millennials, at least we're taking initiative to try to get the [ __ ] right.

[00:15:19]Right? Y'all haven't done anything. I I and I've seen uh some Gen Xers in the comments say, "Well, everyone just skips right over us." Yeah, because you [ __ ] don't speak up. You don't do what's right. You only care about yourself. The whole notion of, "Well, I didn't have it that way."

[00:15:36]Okay. Me as a millennial parent, I'm not trying to put my children in the same tough position that I had to deal with.

[00:15:46]Kids need to deal with adversity. Yes.

[00:15:50]But at the same time, they don't need to deal with pain in order to make progress, is what I'm [music] saying.

[00:15:56]Right? That's That's That's something that Gen X parents failed a lot of us millennials with. There's a lot of incidences like that, anxiety-inducing, uh panic- and fear-inducing. Most of it was fear. We were raised by fear. It wasn't lessons of you know, "Hey, you shouldn't do this.

[00:16:17]Hey, you can do this so you can avoid that." It wasn't that. It was, "Okay, you bumped your head. Now you know not how to bump your head again."

[00:16:25]You know what I'm saying? It wasn't that. You know, I never had somebody tell me don't touch the iron, it's hot.

[00:16:31]Don't reach across the iron, it still has heat coming from it even after I unplug it. I didn't have that. You know, I had to find out like, "Yo, the iron still hot." I had to find out what the iron was myself.

[00:16:43]My kids have never been burned by an iron, mine's in particular, because I've shown them.

[00:16:49]You know what I'm saying? So, those are the things we're speaking about when it comes to what the Gen Xers have failed the millennials and the generation after that. Now, um a lot of y'all are not very present in your grandchildren's lives. I'm hearing, "Well, you know, uh it's our time." It's your time to do what?

[00:17:12]You should be more than happy to contribute and want your grandkids. Not saying to be one of those parents that dump the kids off for weeks at a time at your grandparents' house. I'm not saying that.

[00:17:24]All I'm saying is you should be embracing the fact that you're a grandparent. A lot of y'all had us young.

[00:17:30]So, you should you had time.

[00:17:33]We was at grandma house most of the time.

[00:17:37]Hey, this is just the start of this series, man. Make sure y'all like this video.

[00:17:43]I'mma see y'all in the next one. I got way more coming. Peace.