Millennials Revealed What They Wish Gen Z'ers Would Stop Doing, And It Might Be Hard To Hear

So, to get different perspective, we asked millennials to archer america what they privation much Gen Z'ers knew oregon would halt doing, and they didn't clasp back. Here's what they had to say:

1. "For the Gen Z men: Stop listening to blimpish podcasters similar Andrew Tate oregon Logan and Jake Paul; utilizing their techniques for dating volition not marque women similar oregon emotion you. It volition extremity up with galore of you being aggravated and lonely due to the fact that you don’t clasp yourselves accountable for your actions oregon behavior, and astatine the extremity of the day, nary 1 wants to beryllium with idiosyncratic who doesn’t privation to change."

—misaamaneyagami

2. "Stop reasoning therapy is simply a full aesthetic. Posting crying selfies with captions similar 'healing era' isn't affectional maturation — it's conscionable attention-seeking with filters."

—Anonymous, 32, Canada

3. "I deliberation we're going to travel to observe that societal media and being connected your telephone truthful overmuch erstwhile you're young is conscionable arsenic unsafe arsenic smoking oregon consuming alcohol. I anticipation that Gen Z'ers who person kids support their kids distant from phones and tablets. Rediscover the outdoors and clip spent together. Your parents didn't cognize immoderate better, but you should."

—Anonymous, 38, Canada

"The phones. It is truthful bittersweet that their phones are attached to their hands, and they can't marque oculus interaction oregon person a wide conversation without being distracted by their phones."

—Anonymous, 37, New Jersey

4. "Stop wide romanticizing the 2000s. As a millennial who spent her teen years successful that time, the happening that Gen Z forgets is that it wasn't that large of a decade. I tin vividly retrieve the fare culture, teen gestation fear-mongering, internalized misogyny, and intelligence wellness stigma, to sanction a few, and I don't miss immoderate of that."

"(I don’t retrieve the fashions and quality standards excessively fondly either.)"

—blackbird68

5. "Stop the 'gentle parenting.' I'm perfectly fed up with what the word has travel to represent! It's good for your kid to beryllium told 'no' and person consequences. It's really highly recommended for your kid to person boundaries and consequences. This is portion of however they learn. It's portion of bully socializing; it helps them larn empathy and close from wrong, and I can't judge I person to accidental it — it tin assistance support them safe!!! How tin you assertion that your child's well-being is simply a apical precedence for you if you garbage to thatch them and springiness them boundaries oregon consequences for perfectly abysmal behavior?!"

"Seriously. Gentle parenting is an atrocity. Stop being a passive perceiver and beryllium an existent parent! To bash different is simply a large disservice to your child. You’re not adjacent raising a child, you’re conscionable creating a tiny tyrant that volition beryllium successful for 1 hellhole of a daze travel instauration to the existent world. You’re mounting your kid up for nonaccomplishment successful beingness successful galore aspects, idiosyncratic and otherwise, and should genuinely beryllium ashamed. "

—Anonymous, 30+, Texas

6. "Your thought of skincare is slathering connected 12 serums portion surviving connected Takis and Celsius. That's not skin/self-care; that's chemic warfare connected your face…"

—Anonymous, 32, Canada

7. "They request to halt filming everything connected their phones. (Some of america older folks bash this, too.) Especially concerts!!! Just instrumentality a mates of pictures and bask the experience. Your video is atrocious prime anyway, and nary 1 wants to ticker it."

—Anonymous, 37, Idaho

8. "I privation much Gen Z'ers took earnestly that the net and blimpish depictions of millennials (two antithetic perspectives) are some bad. Neither is real; neither is realistic. One is biased due to the fact that of anonymity and deficiency of consequences; the different is biased due to the fact that governmental and societal entities are ample successful the satellite and actively enactment to diminish and harm our generation. Avocado toast is not 1 of millennials' superior concerns — that's a lie. So is astir of everything you've heard astir millennials."

"I besides privation Gen Z'ers knew what they're astir to spell done politically. As a generation, we've lived done a batch of chaotic stuff, and Gen Z is connected way to unrecorded done conscionable arsenic overmuch oregon more. But we've learned lessons the hard mode — astir money, the authorities of our society, our governmental leadership, and what works to effect alteration and what doesn't. I would alternatively that Gez Z didn't person to larn the hard mode but that they instrumentality it earnestly erstwhile we archer them the truth."

—36, Washington

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9. "Oversharing is NOT the aforesaid arsenic vulnerability oregon existent honesty. Gen Z seems to usage oversharing arsenic a 'hack' to beryllium however genuine they are without realizing that this contrived mentation of sharing lacks intimacy and authenticity. It whitethorn enactment present arsenic young adults, but not gathering that affectional musculus representation volition wounded successful the future."

—Anonymous, 37, California

10. "Stop expecting nonrecreational services and concern jobs (salaried) to beryllium strictly 9-to-5, with small tolerance for going beyond that — adjacent erstwhile the relation intelligibly demands more. This mindset often ignores the world that these positions are astir delivering results, not clocking hours. What's more, galore expect accelerated promotions conscionable for showing up alternatively than proving semipermanent worth oregon going the other mile."

—Anonymous, 39, Illinois

11. "They request to halt the entitlement that everything is owed to them. None of them enactment to get what they privation — they conscionable expect it. For example, bussing tables astatine a edifice to past becoming a server oregon starting arsenic an admin successful firm to past climbing the ladder."

—Anonymous, 37, New Jersey

12. "Spending $400 connected shoes that look similar orthopedic caregiver clogs? 'It's ironic,' you say. Babe, truthful is your slope relationship aft buying them."

—Anonymous, 32, Canada

13. "The Republican enactment is an adjacent worse governmental enactment than you think. The Republicans of the '70/'80/'90/'00s are drastically antithetic than today. Modern Republicans are attempting to rebrand arsenic 'blue-collar,' 'college isn't necessary,' and 'have arsenic galore babies arsenic possible' compared to the past of 'get a assemblage education,' 'manual labour is for minorities,' and 'only person kids if you tin spend them.' What they accidental successful nationalist versus who they are successful backstage areas is drastically different. Don't beryllium fooled by them."

"We've worked excessively hard arsenic a state to get arsenic galore groups just opportunities to spell backward wherever number groups request to unrecorded successful fearfulness successful a supposedly escaped country."

—Anonymous, 41, Arizona

14. "What bash I privation you knew? How amusive it was to beryllium bored — astatine home, successful the car, connected a camping trip, oregon retired successful the tract astatine school. Outdoor Lab Camp utilized to beryllium a thing. Instead of trolling online, gathering up, oregon breaking down, we utilized to locomotion everyplace and make existent creator content. Or we devoured it successful publication form. This was earlier a clump of labels ruined everything from philharmonic genres to personalities."

"Yes, things were overmuch much binary backmost then, but successful those shades of gray, the ripples that became rainbows were truthful beautiful."

—crunchysedan423

15. "Stop demanding to beryllium the main character. Not everyone wants to perceive your music, beryllium successful your videos, oregon fto you chopped them disconnected conscionable due to the fact that you don't person immoderate respect for the radical astir you."

—Anonymous, 31, USA

16. "Stop reasoning that being offended makes you morally successful the right. Sometimes, you're conscionable whining."

—Anonymous, 35, Tennessee

17. "Many Gen Z'ers deficiency the quality to usage discourse clues oregon captious reasoning erstwhile speechmaking oregon doing anything, whether leisurely oregon not. I'm each for accessibility accommodations (I request them myself). Still, I'm seeing Gen Z and younger not adjacent wanting to deliberation and alternatively usage thing (*coughChatGPTcough*) to get retired of utilizing their encephalon for much than TikTok oregon Instagram. It's painful, sad, and, honestly, highly aggravating.

"Is it amusive to constitute a three-page effort connected required reading? Not always. Does speechmaking definite books, acquiring knowledge, brainstorming, and penning travel successful useful later? Yes. Unfortunate arsenic it whitethorn beryllium for some, yes."

—Anonymous, 30s, USA

Welp. Gen Z'ers, what are your thoughts? And chap millennials, what different things should Gen Z'ers cognize oregon halt doing? Feel escaped to archer america below. Or, if you similar to stay anonymous, you tin usage this signifier below.

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