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Dayna Rutherford
Statesville, NC · 4 months ago
HOT

no, theyre assuming that their parents are going to be free babysitters and an extra income. and people that worked all their lives don't want to be tied down to a babysitting job.

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Logically Me
Middletown, NY · 4 months ago
HOT

Why should parents take care of their grandchildren, especially in this country. You going to take care of them when they hit old age? Hell no, you're going to put them in some nasty old age home once your kids are grown. LIVE YOUR LIVES GRANDPARENTS!!!!

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Justin Allman
Dearborn, MI · 4 months ago
HOT

18 means your an adult. leave us alone and let us enjoy our golden years

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Anthony Crisel
Lawton, OK · 4 months ago

Gen X here, my grandparents didn't watch me and my brothers, hell my parents barely watched us. Dude we watched ourselves

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Randall Stroupe
Wake Forest, NC · 4 months ago

useless generation

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Patricia Barrientos-quincy
Los Angeles, CA · 4 months ago

Boomers are at the great grandparent and rest home stage!! get over it!

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Yogibara
4 months ago

As a Boomer we went everywhere with our children.We also worked split shifts so we don’t burden everyone else with our Children.We are a functional family taught with values..Today parents are a joke and the kids have no values..

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Catty Cee
4 months ago

Grandparents are not built-in babysitters. Going to Grandparents house is a treat. They didn't have my kids. My kids are not my parents responsibility. Millennial parents are Gen X not Boomers.

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Carrie Jacqueson
Dorchester, MA · 4 months ago

baby boomer parents had grandma's that didn't work

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SuperRealdeal45
4 months ago

I agree 100 💯. I've told my 3 sons that once they leave the house don't come back here with any grand kids. I've been on my own since I was 17 raising them once they grown I'm done.

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Lela Brady
Seattle, WA · 4 months ago

millennials as grandparents suck too

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Prinsceilla Coulter
Laveen, AZ · 4 months ago

nope. we have a life .stop having kids

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LafenGran
Jacksonville, FL · 4 months ago

Us baby boomer grandparents are still working for a living thank you very much. I love my grandkids. I love my kids, but nobody ever gave me free babysitting. I paid for that daycare.

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Wilts
Galveston, TX · 4 months ago

I don’t know any Boomer grandparents that aren’t available to babysit or have the kids.

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Christopher Fuquay
Des Moines, IA · 4 months ago

I never fathered any offspring for that very reason. no grand offspring, no one to ask me for anything. I have a small group of friends, and never baby sat a single child. I like it that way. If you want something from me... ask nicely... the answer is probably a NOT!😁..oh yeah.. have a nice day.

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Susan Holly
Lewiston, CA · 4 months ago

I don't agree with this at all I'm a baby boomer and I interact with my grandchildren all the time and so do my brothers and sisters interact with their children and grandchildren

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Susan Redd
Houston, TX · 4 months ago

other way around.. parents are cutting off millennial and living child free.. take care of your own kids.

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Robert Ling
4 months ago

would it have to do with all kids now staring at their phones 24/7, you can't talk to them because they're busy on the phones. who wants to be around that.

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Kimberly
Jackson, MS · 4 months ago

My boomer mom let my grandmother raise us while she chased men, left us to different states and prue college she didn't even finish. One day she said I raised y'all right and I replied no you didn't My grandmother did. Now I have a kid of my own and shower him with love and affection that my grandmother did to me. I forgive her but my grandmother was my mom.

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Sparky Sparky
Lakeland, FL · 4 months ago

Things have changed a lot. Nobody gets together like years ago. I think everyone working max hours and not making enough is a huge part. Once you stop getting together it doesn't come back and the years speed up.

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Jason WenDell Burge
Perris, CA · 4 months ago

To be fair equality kinda changed that dynamic. Instead of Grandma being at home, Grandma gotta close tonight.

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Jack indabox
4 months ago

I grew up in the 80's and practically raised myself. It was awesome!!!

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Jay Morse
Stanley, KY · 4 months ago

Gen X here. I'm not a babysitter. I love my grandkids, but I don't want to keep them overnight any more than about 5 times a year. All my kids are grown. I can finally have weekends to do what I want, when I want. I love for them to come and visit with their parents. But take them home when you leave. 😁

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Whit
Iola, KS · 4 months ago

I'm a millennial I didn't cut off my parents due to inconvenience I cut them off because they are physically mentally and financially abusive all things they still do to this day I'm glad I dont speak to them and I'm also glad my children will never know what being treated like that feels like so these are not facts they are opinions you have created out of convenience

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pray4USA
Follansbee, WV · 4 months ago

You mean GenX , my boomer Mom is 80 years old , you must be a millennial and don’t know your generations

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Sarah Bohanon
Northwood, IA · 4 months ago

I go and take care of my grandbabies I didn't have a relationship with my grandparents my father's parents were not alive and my mom kept us away from our grandparents. I make a point to have a relationship with my grandbabies. They are the future and we need to teach about the past so history doesn't continue to repeat itself. I'm not there every day but I'm there when it matters. 🌸🌸🌸💕🥰

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Ali Coombs
Holland, MI · 4 months ago

you can be involved with caring for your grandbabies and still have time for yourself. I wouldn't trade my time helping out my daughter and son in-law who work full time and/or having time with my babies. of course keep boundries if they try taking advantage though.

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Liver Lilly
Bracey, VA · 4 months ago

I think there are way more grandparents raising their grand kids because the kids parents are unfit. Out if all my kids' friends, not one lives with both their mother and father. Most live with their grandparents, the rest live in a divorced home.

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Jackie fuller
Santa Clarita, CA · 4 months ago

My grandpa loved to watch me and my sister. It wasn’t an obligation to them. My grandpa was like a father to me. I think this video is trying to convey why don’t grandparents want to spend time with their grandchild especially that they’re getting older.

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Penny Lee
Mesa, AZ · 4 months ago

I'm a Boomer and I'm extremely involved with my grandchildren!

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OperatorJimmy
4 months ago

and it's always only on their time when they say so.. atleast my mother, can't speak for everyone

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US Citizen
Shillington, PA · 4 months ago

I’d love to take care of my grandchildren but I have to work. I’ll be working til lunchtime of the day I die. My property taxes went up, inflation was crushing the last four years, utilities went up, interest rates on credit cards skyrocketed, food prices are nuts, car insurance and health insurance is insane. Yep, my golden years aren’t happening any time soon.

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imlisalynn
4 months ago

Boomers & Gen- xers are very involved in their children's lives. But somewhere a disconnect has happened. Many millennials have expected to be supported forever by their parents. Others have no emotional connection to their families, at all. It's terribly sad.

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Jeffery Melton
Dalton, GA · 3 months ago

most baby boomers birthed gen xers. and our parents just expect us to be good

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Blu
Ravencliff, WV · 4 months ago

I’m not taking care of my kids children cause I raised her a single dad and I did a decent job. But she knows I’m not a baby sister I did my thang already and I’m not doing it again.

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J C
Redmond, WA · 3 months ago

Parents working too many hours since women's Liberation. No family life. Grandparents knew a real family with mothers at home and coordinating family events. Government and lack of Christian religion based families. So current first broken loop.

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MAGADAD
Magnolia, TX · 4 months ago

When i'm a grandparent, my life is going to be being a grandparent. What more important thing could you do with your life?

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Mark Morgan
Virginia Beach, VA · 3 months ago

shit me.an my grandson can't live without each other now he's 12 man we always doing something wrong like yelling at each other slapping each other. wrestling in the yard boxing fighting over a box of cheerios 😂😂😂 when it's my time I told him put that pistol in my hand

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me
4 months ago

My grandparents weren’t involved at all other than the occasional visit. Millennials are so needy

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Troy Wilson
Carmel, IN · 4 months ago

are you making statements to make yourself/ the whole generation feel better about yourselves? the fact is your generation has snubbed their parents and blamed their poor decisions on their parents. Everyone in this generation were treated as if just showing up was good enough. Trophies for all.

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Diane Galbraith
Springville, TN · 4 months ago

I think you have your generations mixed up. I'm from the last part of the babyboomer generation. I and most of my friends spent a great deal of time and money on our grandchildren. Now we are greatgrandparents.

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Amy Smith
Millersville, PA · 4 months ago

No one was asked to or offered to watch my children, both born by mid 80s. I took my kids everywhere. Grocery store, mall, camping, beach, running errands, everywhere. All day every day until they went to school. Why do you have children if you don't want to be with them and raise them?

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Maddog
Idaho Falls, ID · 4 months ago

I'm a baby boomer and my family comes first. my grandchildren are the best. I can't get enough of kids or grandkids. and I feel that the wisdom of grandparents, and their faith is upmost important to the kids. teach them respect and there will be a happy middle.

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Mary Jane Jakubowski
Dundalk, MD · 4 months ago

Nah. Not all. I wish I had a grandbaby to help with would never be an inconvenience. Would be a blessing

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Shannan Roberts
Montgomery, TX · 4 months ago

My hubs & I are both 57. We can't afford to retire for approximately 10-15 more years. We have 6 grands & another on the way. When we have the opportunity, we love to travel while we're still physically able to. It seems most millennials are still expecting entitlement. If you're old enough to have families, you should be responsible enough to make sure you have caretakers outside your parents. We do have lives to live.

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Irmalinda Desiderio
Rye, NY · 4 months ago

Let's clarify this "poor me" mentality here. With many older generations, both parents had to work to support their families. Increased divorces forced moms into the workplace. It is common for working parents to feel guilty about being away from their kids, so they focused on giving them things parents didn't have growing up. By the time parents retired, they were crispy fried. Frankly, most don't have the energy or stamina for being full-time childgivers

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Sandra Parker
Corona, CA · 4 months ago

I don’t agree because there are so many grandparents are raising their grandchildren.

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tonie Bonilla
Flagstaff, AZ · 4 months ago

Actually two things: 1. increased society and social media to determine just how parents have behaved. Continue to watch how everyone in social media is belittling the job of parent. 2. simple entitlement of children. they were given much and expect it to continue while using "their horrible treatment " to justify their pathetic behavior. Spoiled Brats

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Tonya Pittman
Nancy, KY · 4 months ago

Most Baby Boomers aren't Millennial parents. They may be their grandparents, but in most scenarios, they would be parents to Gen X. They are too old to babysit full-time.

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chad
2 months ago

baby boomers are not the parents of milliennells

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world upside down
3 months ago

And you don’t know WTH you are talking about. I’m a baby boomer. My GRANDCHILDREN ARE the Millennials. I am at the end of the boomer era. You are talking about parents born in the 70,80’s that don’t take their grandchildren. We boomers we always being accused of being helicopter parents. Our parents would throw us outdoors all day to play and not worry about us as long as we were in when the street lights came on. Boomers are 1945 - 1959. Kathi some people say to 61. Get it straight

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Courtney Ivy
Beloit, WI · 3 months ago

We were alone

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Sharon Highstone
Merritt Island, FL · 3 months ago

They’re just pissed because they think their parents are gonna be their babysitters. And it doesn’t always happen. But they never planned for that. Surprise.

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Aaron Holguin
El Paso, TX · 3 months ago

cry me a river!!! Thank God you have parents.

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McModafukka
Rochester, NY · 3 months ago

No, they're cutting them off because they've been indoctrinated by a fucked up agenda in schools.

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Angela Palazzolo
Northridge, CA · 3 months ago

wait a minute. I'm a millennial and my parents are genx, not boomers. their parents were the boomers.

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Jason Laird
Spring, TX · 3 months ago

Yeah no. I did what a Man does and I’m stuck in a state I can’t stand till my son is 18 because I refuse to leave him. He knows when he’s 18 I’m out.

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Wha_da_Pho_is_this?
Atlanta, GA · 3 months ago

My grandparents mostly raised me but I spend every minute I’m not working with my grandkids.