"I Never Would Have Dared": Millennials Are Getting Brutally Honest About The Things They Grew Up With That They're Glad Younger Generations Are Rejecting

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Growing up, we each learned lessons that were considered "the norm" astatine the time. However, present that we're older, immoderate of those lessons are really considered ace outdated. Luckily, younger radical are taking a full caller attack to beingness by rejecting immoderate of the things we millennials had to larn the hard way, from the displacement successful work-life equilibrium to caller manner trends.

I precocious stumbled crossed a Reddit thread wherever millennials shared thing they were taught that they're truthful gladsome younger generations are present rejecting. Here's what they had to say, and I'm funny if you agree:

1. "Being expected to beryllium reachable for enactment extracurricular enactment hours conscionable due to the fact that you ain a phone."

2. "Traditional sex roles, including starting a family. Imagine a aboriginal wherever the bulk of radical were raised by parents who actively planned and were excited to person kids, and had 2 parents who were actively engaged successful parenting."

—u/astrobatic

3. "That discussing your moving conditions oregon wage with your coworkers is wrong."

4. "Women not having to deterioration heels to spell out. Seeing young women wearing sneakers to spell retired dancing was liberating."

—u/Medical-Potato5920

5. "I emotion seeing younger retail/service workers instrumentality down and conscionable not cater to rude customers. I ne'er would person dared."

6. "Normalizing cutting disconnected toxic household members. I spot younger radical much and much cutting disconnected toxic household members. Before, it utilized to be, 'but they're family,' and now, it's more, 'it sucks that they were family.'"

—u/outersenshi

7. "Binge drinking successful your youth. I'm gladsome Gen Z and Gen Alpha are rejecting alcohol."

8. "Grind culture. Not worthy it — nary substance however overmuch clip you enactment into a job, they'll inactive propulsion you retired without a existent crushed whenever there's a vibe shift."

—u/LastSeesaw5618

9. "That everyone should spell to college."

10. "The thought that being exhausted each the clip was conscionable portion of being a liable adult. Working done lunch, answering emails aft hours, ne'er utilizing your PTO, coming successful sick — someway each of that was treated similar grounds that you had a 'good enactment ethic.' I'm gladsome younger radical are asking a precise tenable question: If a occupation requires you to sacrifice your wellness and your full beingness conscionable to beryllium you care, possibly the occupation isn't your enactment ethic."

—u/Better_Ear_3550

11. "You person to decorativeness each your food, adjacent if you're full."

13. "That your vocation is your full life. Sometimes a occupation tin beryllium a job."

14. "If idiosyncratic is mean to you, that conscionable means they similar you."

—u/bzkitty

15. "Unpaid internships."

16. "That hiding your play oregon different earthy assemblage functions similar acne is normal."

—u/gnarlyknits

17. "Personally, I deliberation we were taught to enactment up with thing and everything astatine work, truthful it is bully to spot these caller generations enactment an extremity to that. Also, I work determination that Gen Z is turning down promotions due to the fact that they don't worth the other 5 dollars an hr much than they bash work-life balance."

18. "Big 1 for maine is assemblage autonomy for children. As a child, I was ever forced to hug and cheek-kiss each azygous idiosyncratic astatine gatherings erstwhile I arrived and left. I hated it. I emotion my family, but forcing children to hug adults is precise selfish of the adults. Now that I person nieces and nephews, I connection them high-fives if they don't privation a hug, and if they don't adjacent privation that, I conscionable archer them that's perfectly fine, that I emotion them, and that I volition spot them soon. No guilt trips arsenic my parents did. Do I privation a hug due to the fact that I emotion them? Yes, absolutely, but their comfortableness is much important than mine."

—u/froggyc19

19. And finally, "Young radical addressing their intelligence well-being and seeking assistance erstwhile needed without shame is simply a immense advancement."

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Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.

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