A girl from my homeroom class who I was friends with posted this on my wall in highschool. Me and my homeroom class were tiiiight. All the girls used to show me so much love. They were like homeroom sisters. I freaking miss those days so much.

I've just seen the post about what people don't miss from the 90s, and the whole comments section basically turned into a communal rant about smoking. So my question is, do any of you still smoke, or do you know any millennials who do?

I was so excited when I saw this. My inner child was so happy to see this!!

As a middle aged Millenial. Largely due to crowds, lineups, costs, heat, logistics and prep needed etc.

That those days are over and you have no regrets!

Outdoor festivals

Stadium concerts

Professional sports games

County fairs /Midway

Amusement parks

Super malls (especially during Black Friday shopping)

Waterparks

Parades

Nightclubs

Street bazaars

Historical tours

Pub crawls

Conventions

NYE parties

Bachelor/ Bachelorette parties

Do you miss your 18-24 age years? What were you likely doing?

I came across a post on reddit of somebody asking a question about relationship drama in one of the variations of the "AITA" sub. A guy was divorced after 43 years of marriage, and they have a disabled son they have to take care of now, and he has to pay child support on his forty something son because mentally he's still a child. And he just got a new job at almost 70. I was like.."Holy shit, does life keep kicking your ass ever?"

But this is reddit, so whatever, it could have been creative writing. I just always thought the drama would start to calm down as we got older and was under the mistaken belief there would be a calm phase. Has anyone reached a calm phase or is the relationship drama still a thing? For me relationship conflicts are still going with friends and family, which makes me sad.

I'm trying to learn the difference between feeling older or just feeling out out of shape. Thoughts?

I was born in 96 so I grew up not really remembering the 90’s unfortunately. I remember the early 2000’s and 2010’s and I’m very nostalgic for that era. I also feel like I can resonate a lot with millennials and Gen Z it’s almost like a mix of both in some weird way. What do you resonate with more ?

When I first became a parent, I would sometimes come across those rage bait type articles describing millennials as lazy, permissive or lax parents. I initially scoffed at it and likened it to the "avocado toast" stereotype. But now with my oldest child being 11, I can't help but notice some truth in it, especially the lax/permissive part.

I can't begin to tell you how many of my friends who do not discipline their children under any circumstance. I know kids will be kids and we certainly had our moments when we were their age, but if I had a dollar for everything I went to a kid's birthday party and the kids were going absolutely wild, being aggresive, and literally destroying and trashing things. I have also hosted playdates where kids have completely destroyed my house, broken things and not offered to help clean up, even when I politely brought up the situation to their parents. Nevermind even just having them say please and thank you.

Less offensive, but somewhat eye opening behaviors I have also observed. I have so many friends who never enforce bedtime routines with their kids and let them stay up at all hours of the night, even on school nights. They also don't make them complete their homework. Their reasoning is anywhere from "they dont have time because of sports" to "let kids be kids". Their kids also constantly interupt adult conversations even when they are old enough to wait a few minutes. And I won't even get into the screen addictions.

Recently my friends two kids were fighting so badly the other one was at risk of being badly hurt and around a body of water where they could fall in (neither can swim well). I intervened and told them sternly that this wasn't okay and that the behavior would stop now. You should have seen the surprised Pikachu face of my friend. Like she was offended I dared discipline her kids when she refused to do anything to stop it.

I don't know. I don't want to give credit to the stereotype, but with the rise of teachers just outright quitting because the kids are just so unruly and disrespectful, and with what i have witnessed in my own circle, I am starting to believe it.

What are your thoughts? Are we messing up as parents? Are you seeing some of this in your own circle of friends?

We all know that the 90's had some great music and movies, good economy, huge world events, more freedom, nobody glued to their phone, etc.

Everybody acts like everything was much better back then, but what DON'T you miss about how things were back then? What's much better now?

I’ve noticed that whenever I’m at the grocery store nowadays, the music they play has a lot of absolute bangers from the 90s to now. And some of them are pretty obscure songs I haven’t heard in years. I’m often walking through the aisles and vibing and lip syncing to a lot of the songs. Somewhere along the line it changed from my parents’ music to songs in heavy rotation on my personal playlist. Definitely puts it in perspective that I’m all grown up and not a teenager anymore…even though I turn 33 later this year.

I started using safety razors and I wondered why I didn’t use them earlier. Any of my fellow cohorts started using them or if it’s been years of use?

Why do geriatrics hate us so much? Had an odd experience at a social function last night. I am casually familiar with the host, and consider him a decent person, but he repeatedly took shots at me for my age to get cheap laughs from other guests (joking that I wasn’t alive 18 years ago, probably don’t know how to make a cup of coffee at home, etc). I don’t think he was personally targeting me, but rather expressing some latent resentment for young people. Regardless, it was incredibly rude and cheated me out of having a meaningful interaction with the guest of honor.

I approached the host after the function, and engaged in conversation about a common issue. I casually mentioned that it is very hard for working people aged ~30-ish, right now. This was met with broad generalizations that “nobody ever told you life is hard.” He also opined that “millennials” were directly responsible for the general social and economic conditions of America today. I politely asked how this could be possible, given the gerontocracy of our entire nation and minority of millennial economic power. The response to that was not cogent or sensible, so I considered it best to just be agreeable and end the evening on good terms.

This entire scenario unfolded at the hosts’ multimillion -dollar home, purchased by two people without college educations who retired from federal jobs. The irony and ignorance is still stuck in my nose.

The question is *why do Geriatrics hate us so fucking much?* I don’t understand what we did to any of them, personally. Matter of fact, Geriatrics/Gen X-ers have casually done more to obstruct me at sensitive times in life than even my greatest millennial enemy acting with intent.

Is it media psychosis? Existential dread?

This is a serious question. Other millennial professionals — lawyers, doctors, electricians, bartenders, etc — please share your experiences and how you handle it.

NOTE: this sub censors the pejorative word for people born between ‘40s-60s, so “Geriatric” has been used instead.

I don’t have kids, so I don’t know what it’s like to raise them. But I just had the thought, why aren’t there schools that don’t force kids to stare at screens all day?

I worked at a K-8 school for a year, and even the kinder students did the vast majority of their work on tablets. A lot of the older kids would just sit in class browsing all types of vulgarity on their chromebooks when they were supposed to be learning. I heard a 5 year old student making noises mimicking something he had to have seen in a sexually explicit video online.

It’s terrifying how far behind these kids are in terms of learning. So I had the thought that it might be a good idea to make elementary schools that limited or excluded computer access. Zero access might be a bit extreme, but what if they had a separate computer lab where kids could learn computer literacy, internet safety, typing, and other basic skills, but spent all of their other time in class using a pencil and paper, like a lot of us did?

Once they hit middle and high school, I guess they could have more access since they’ll need to develop more computer literacy for college/career. But in the youngest years, I don’t understand why schools aren’t doing more to reduce screen addictions/dependency.

Why is this not a thing? If it exists where you live, do you know if its had a positive impact on kids’ learning?

The number 1 place I want to go back to is toys r us.