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• Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gen x and millennials know they were absolute terrors as children. We don’t want to deal with that shit so we’re raising our kids to be better than we were.

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  • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If we were it was only because we were abused and neglected by our boomer parents.

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    • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      IDK about this. Today’s extreme focus on helicopter parenting seems to view “having room to play” as CPS-worthy neglect. Shouldn’t there be a middle ground?

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    • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I recently discovered a YouTuber channel called THE DADBOD VETERAN, and he explains very well the neglect of GenX from their parents. Just left to our own device.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re still shit. I bring my young kids to the park and around 430 the 12-15 year old kids roll in and are an absolute menace, like clockwork. Littering, cursing loudly, riding their bikes in between the play equipment.

    I think there’s a certain age where shitheads will always be shitheads. They get this little taste of freedom that comes with adolescence and they go overboard. I think it is just a part of life.

    I try to say to my kids, hey, you don’t like how they’re acting now right? Then don’t do it when you’re their age. We will see if that works.

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    • Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My daughter is in high school now and the kids are still shitheads but no where near the degree we were in the 90s.

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Once on the highway a kid made a lil heart at me with his hands from a bus window and I flipped him off and he and his friends lost their minds. It was hilarious.

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  • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can probably be charged with battery or abuse these days for flipping somebody off

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    • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah but you’ll get money if you can fight it. At least, 2 years ago you wouldve. Things are a little worse now

      independent.co.uk/…/vermont-middle-finger-arrest-…

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• loonmusic@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They were all looking at their phones.

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  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    so was the person driving

    and me, now

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most likely the school bus driver was on their phone as well. I’ve seen that shit so many times.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m a school bus driver and my district bans the use of phones on the buses. I don’t say a fucking thing about it. It keeps the kids occupied and out of doing worse things on the bus, and it’s not like 15 minutes less screen time per day is going to make the slightest difference in their lives.

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• Yosmonkol@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All school buses these days have black out windows, like the one in the OP. Wild shit happened before the tint, like kids getting into literal fist fights when two buses stopped side by side at a red light.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And kids in the back of the bus were always the wild rebels, “mooning” the cars behind them was not uncommon in the old days.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Right? I remember thinking “Why did Rosa Parks want to sit at the front? The back of the bus is where all the cool people are!”

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I played lacrosse in middle school, and when we’d stop we’d try taking the caps from our Gatorades and rolling them on the windshield of cars next to us.

      I can’t stand littering now, I do town cleanups, and maybe it’s my way of trying to undo my stupidity.

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That sucks

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I flipped off the toll gate attendant once in 4th grade when we were coming back from some event. Another kid on the bus narc’ed on me and I got detention. Would do again.

  PS: I still flip off the automated toll readers. Fuck the system.

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  • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Lol my aunt used to have a job looking at those photos when people claimed this or that. She showed me some funny ones. That said I always do something obscene. Unlikely a human sees it anymore but if so I hope their day got a little better.

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• username_1@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I know why: because the bus was empty. Education isn’t in favor nowadays.

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• Danarchy@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Passed the sportsball team bus and no hams were pressed

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• StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why would they even bother to flip you off? That just doesn’t make sense

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  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because fuck em lmao

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    fuck em

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• tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How in the world did you have energy as a kid to flip off anyone? I barely had energy to walk to the bus.

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That doesn’t make any sense. You have more energy as a kid than any other time in your life by a massive margin.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Were you malnourished?

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