Boomer Parents vs Millennial Parents 

This just needed a “no you can’t have cake for breakfast…. Eat your poptart” vs “here are your organic free range eggs with micro greens and avocado toast sweetie” type moment lol 😂

as a 90s kid, you unlocked a forgotten memory about listening to the movie showings on the phone 🤣 and when you MISS THE TIME and have to listen to it again 😭

I was raised in the 80’s by a boomer mom w/ anxiety. So going to the drainpipe w/ Jennifer M would have never flown with her, but going to the drainpipe w/ my older brother to meet Jennifer M was all good 😂

I'm 32 and definitely fall into the millennial parenting group, but holy God did boomer mom take me back to my mom witnessing a violent bike accident (I less than gracefully slid down a gravel hill with my bike on top of me.) And no joke, her reaction was "Is any of that blood coming from your mouth? Are your teeth still in? Okay, come get a box of bandaids, you're fine." Which she yelled full volume from the top of the hill.

I was having flash backs every time you switched to 20 century mom. Only thing missing was "I'll give you something to cry about" or "are you dying...no.. then go back outside, you're fine".

I was born in 75. Honestly, I think the "free range" aspect of Boomer parenting wasn't all bad... I learned a lot of independence and self-reliance that way.

I love everything about the boomer mom's wig, outfit, and glasses. So spot on and cute 😂

She killed me with the organice chicken breaststroke, $27 a pound lol 😆

This is so true. I had the strictest parents on the block and was still allowed to go play by the river and my mom talked on the rotary phone allllll day.

I forgot all about calling to get the movie times! Moms would be killer mad about the Blockbuster tape not being rewound when it was time to return them, so happy when your parents finally bought the separate rewinder 📼

Omgosh. Listening for movie times brought back memories lol 😂. I’m 31, and I tell my 4 yr old “if you’re dirty, you had fun, go make mud”.

This resonates so deeply with me. When I moved to Delaware, I learned as a new mom that it is illegal to let my children play outside in our own yard without me being physically present outside. No washing dishes at the sink, looking out my open window to supervise- only outside. Guess what the magic age is? 8. Until they’re 8 years old!!! But walking to school at 5 is fine. 😂

Talk about ptsd of the childhood. 😂 '90's kids just runnin around everywhere barefoot, drinking from garden hoses, eating HH and On'Cor meals every night... Good times, man! 😂

My mom died in 2019, This brought back great memories of going to our version of "drain pipe". "JUST BE HOME WHEN THE STREET LIGHTS TURN ON". The only critique I have, is the lack of muting the phone with the hand over the receiver. Also, the time you knew you were in trouble was when your mom hollered both your first and middle name. Damn neighbor saw you messing about and tattled.

This perfectly reflects my own experiences growing from a working-class Millennial child into a middle-class Millennial parent. It's kind of heart-warming on top of being hilarious.

I didn't realize that I was so cliche!!! I am guilty of almost every example of millennial parenting. All the stuff millennial mom said in this video sounds so crazy coming out of someone else's mouth. This was spot on. As for Boomer mom, that was pretty much accurate as well. Man have times changed. It makes me wonder if we are too paranoid to actually enjoy anything ever.

I’m 63 and raised my 4 children in the 80’s and 90’s…oh, this brought back some wonderful memories!!! I have 10 grandchildren now and I so worry about the world they live in🥺. I just love and support them ( and their parents 🥰) as much as I possibly can! ♥️ Thanks for making us all smile on a daily basis…and for all the gentle parenting information. It’s beautiful!💖

Im 100% sure my mum had that exact denim blouse in the 90's, LOVE IT!!

Omg! Brought back my childhood in a HUGE way!!! Loved it!!!! It's amazing we are all still alive! I'm 52 and I feel bad for kids today. They miss sooo much!

Damn. That phone call to hear the movie times takes me back

Aaaah, the good ol’ days of parenting. Brought back so many memories of raising my three girls. My youngest decided to run away. All I said to her was “fine as long as you don’t cross the street “. I also threatened with “if you get hurt doing that I’m gonna whip your a$$!” They grew up great and love talking about their childhood. Kids today don’t have those kinds of memories.

As a boomer who is raising teen grandkids🤪 You are so dialed into both generations 😎 Thank you for the trip down memory lane ❤️

Omg… I forgot we had to call to listen to movie times… thanks for the memories! You nailed it! PS… We had a van but I always wanted a station wagon so I could sit in the back back!

Your "boomer" mom is wearing one of my mom's (nearly) exact outfits, with a very similar wig! Love this so much!

As a 45-year-old woman, this is so accurate it’s scary LMFAO I love it!

Oh wow, the "Friday/Saturday" Blockbuster trips, those were good times right there. 😂😂😂

This was hilarious! I was born in 1970 and you hit the mark! Great job!

Thank G-d I was able to raise my kids pretty much the way I was raised...a significant amount more parental oversight than I had growing up, but NOTHING like the absolute insane helicopter parenting of today!!! My kids ran around barefoot, drank from hoses, climbed trees, ate dirt, who knows what else. Good times!

The clown bit got me, they scared the hell out of me a couple years ago

Oh my god- I’m not a mom, but I feel like I’m emotionally f*d up enough that I find your parenting style to help me manage my feelings and choices, lol! (even for the littles!) I was born in ‘82, and your 20th century parent was so dead-on! The Moviefone!🤣🤣🤣

I am an elder millennial, who waited until I was 28 to have my first and only child. This video is like simultaneously watching your childhood, and the person I turned into. 😂

Girl you are a RIOT! I have never laughed so hard in my life! So on point and I can relate with the mothering from both eras! I've raised four kids and I'm now a Nana and I shared this video with all of them! I just hit subscribe and if there was a Love button!! Keep on with this! You're so very talented ❤️🤣😂

Haha, this is great. Our parents would let us loose at the start of the day and gather the survivors at the end. My students today have these smart watches on their wrists and calls home for the most minor inconvenience. Sometimes I just want to tell them to sort it the fukk out themselves.

You nailed the 80’s Mom to a T!! Omg!! All the Jennifer names..😂😂😂

Oh man, the phone call to get the movie start times really brought back memories of when I was a wee child that I completely forgot about haha

Oh my stars. The curly hair and glasses took me back. You must have so much fun making these videos. I bet the bloopers are beyond hilarious 😂

Pretty sure my mom had those glasses...and that hair. But we weren't paying for the video store. We borrowed our vhs tapes from the library. 😄

i was born in 74. i was the epitome of a latchkey kid. my mom was single and worked all day long. got myself up and to school at six years old by myself. good days ;)

Omg this was a trip down memory lane and so hilarious 😂 We used to call the back of our station wagon the “way back” lol. Our house always had ho hos and pop tarts of course! In addition to dirt, we also ate playdoh, crayons and chalk and definitely drank water out of the garden hose🤣

Lol this brought back so many memories. I'm a child of the 80's. When I went out to play it was whose house and be home before dark. I think if my parents knew half the things we got up to they would have had a heart attack. Ahh the freedom of the 80's. Lol and the movie hotline for the theater. Every weekend. Omg if you missed for the movie you wanted because someone chose a bad moment to try and talk to you you had to hang up and call back just to listen to it all again or listen to the whole thing until it repeated.

You forgot "So what did you learn?" When they were told repeatedly NOT to do things that can end up in pain (such as me falling out of a tree and thus resulting in two different yet both failed, surgeries) and "Why you crying? Oh really? Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about!" Completely spot on though, and funny af! My kids still did hear the "What did we learn?" question, bc like me, didn't ever listen to reason. Luckily none of them died or were seriously injured. However they could have been raised better had I learned sooner that being a red faced screaming mother like mine was before me, never ever helped the situation. Now that I'm older I know this. Sadly not soon enough in my opinion. If I could go back and change things, the constant screaming and yelling would be one of the big ones I would have changed, and I would have also changed the spanking thing as well. Rarely spanked my daughters but my son was spanked often. It didnt do much but make him madder. It wasn't until he got older that I realized that there were other ways to discipline him than spanking. Such as no computer for a week etc. Although gentle parenting wouldn't have fully worked on my kids I think it would have helped a lot. I have so many regrets on how I parented my kids. I tell parents now that a willful, and angry child is often a child who needs more positive interactions and less negative ones. I see this especially in a few of my friends kids who, whenever I come by want to literally come live with me. Because they get attention, and interaction and positive reinforcement. All things I didn't know how to do as a young mother. I love your channel bc it really does help give a different perspective on child rearing. A perspective that wasn't available to me when I was raising my children. I raised mine the way I was raised, and it was not acceptable. Looking back, I feel as if I failed my kids bc I failed to see or take the time to realize they deserved to have a mom who was patient and kind, not angry and resentful. I have a way better relationship with my kids now, but I won't lie, they need and have been in counseling, and its completely my fault.

So happy when a scene filmed in the kitchen came on. I LOVE THE DECOR!! Looking like a cool Brenda from Stranger Things with your tats. ❣️

So funny & OH! so TRUE!!!! I'm a 20th century mom & of course my grandchildren are being raised by 21st century moms. I'm slowly, but surely learning to keep my mouth shut. ROFL

The 3 day rental shelf.....DEAD. This isn't satire...this is documented history kiddos! 🤣🤣

Love from South Africa! I'm subscribing right now! I have 2 autistic children. Peranting is hard! But after watching your videos reminds me to have fun with them as well as teach them. You are fantastic!!

I’m hoping you’ll make a series out of this, as the comments are amazing so far! And I miss the back back sit.. 🥺 we need to bring it back!

🙋‍♀️ "Just buy it, don't tell Dad" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 We use a spinning wheel app to pick movies.❤️🤣🤣🤣 I can also be old school mom too. 🤣🤣

Loved it! I was waiting for "why are you drinking from the hose?" 🤣

The koolaiad, hamburger helper, tater tots, hohos with cannned peaches...omg did everyone eat the same in the 70s & 80s?

I remember fighting over riding in the back back of the wagon 😅😅. I'm the modern mom now with a dash of hippie

They should've been having pork chops covered in cream of mushroom soup, minute rice and fruit cocktail from a can for dinner. I remember a lot of dinners where everything was pretty much the same color, except the maraschino cherries in the fruit cocktail. I WISH I could've had Ho-Ho's for dessert growing up! We weren't rich like that lol!

You forgot to drink out of the garden hose while you ate dirt. Lol. I do think we had a much more free experience. We could fail, fall out of a tree, push a brother off the dock in February. That last one did get me seriously spanked. In fairness the water was 50 degrees and his lips turned blue from the cold. Lesson learned.

ah, the good ol' back-back. We never had a car with a back-back, so it was my favorite part of going places with friends!

“The good can of peaches!” That took me back

😂 The 30ft long phone cord so mom could go all over the house and it was like a maze climbing under and over the cord

Lol!! You brought some memories!! I had a friend whose mom looked so much like the 80’s mom, and she would make a whole spread of hamburger helper, canned peas, mashed potatoes n gravy, Mac n cheese, cornbread. She said they were poor and food was their only entertainment. I’d be eating so good over there, than we all watched wrestling.

“Be home when the street lights come on.” I better be nowhere near coming in the house unless I’m on fire, something is broken, or someone is dragging my corps. #genx

My mom is a boomer, sister is gen x and I am millennial. This is going to be interesting.

So true. I was born in the 70's and as a child we had no worries of anything. I drank from the water hose, ate seeded grapes and watermelon, hitched hiked to places because no one was a stranger, got stung by bees and took the stinger out ourselves and put some baking soda paste on it. Nowadays kids don't know what outside is. Times sure have changed.

Missing "don't come in until the street lights come on" 🤣 our childhoods were so much more fun.

Love your videos. Early 90s baby and my folks were definitely somewhere in the middle. If I went anywhere with friends, they had to know all about it. And my mom was a total helicopter parent for my grades. But as long as I was outside, they were chill. All the bad things in their minds came from (and still does) technology. Nevermind the fact that my mother was far more prolific in her use of social media than I ever was. 😅

Wow this was so true. The good ole blockbuster days!

“You can ride in the back back” OMG the memories of my mom’s light blue station wagon!!!😂😂😂😂💜♥️❤️🥰

As a Gen X kid born in the 1970s, this brought back so many memories! I now have a teenage son who has his own front door key but NEVER has the slightest urge to just go out and do his own thing for the day... and it baffles the heck out of me.

I had the weirdest mix of these growing up. I could have hostess cakes and hang out with friends at the nearby park until the streetlights came on, but I couldn't listen to much of the same music as them or watch the same shows. I was expected to call when I got to a friend's house and before I left (if I wasn't being given a ride), but I grew up not being allowed to play with bratz dolls and when I was older it was a fight to be allowed to *go* anywhere with a friend if their parent wasn't going to be with us the entire time. And I couldn't have most social media until I was 18. It created some very weird situations and issues growing up lol

Why does this resonate with me so much?!! OMG!! Born in ‘84 and yup stayed outside all day!!

"Clowns and Isis..." LOL

This is exactly how my mom raised me in the 90’s! It’s amazing how different things are!

Lmao See, I am a Millennial but I grew up very poor in the 90's so neither the parenting nor the decor was any different than the 80's....or the 60's for that matter. 😂 A perfect example is car seats. There "wasn't enough room" in my bio mom's car for my seat plus one for my baby brother so she just stopped putting in me in one when he was born. I was two months away from two. Or riding in the front seat. From age three I was put in the passenger seat ... and sometimes I had a seat belt on. 😂 Could you imagine that today? How the hell did any of us survive? Lmao

I needed cheering up - this did the trick 🙏❤️ thank you so much

Born in 82. I'm definitely a mix of both raising my kids. My kids are literally baffled when I tell them my mom didn't know where I was or what I was doing from the time I left to the time I got home. I couldn't use the excuse that I didn't know the time because my phone died or I lost my watch, because the street lights coming on was my get your ass home alarm. 🤣

That was my child hood 🤣🤣🤣 getting sent out the house after breakfast and being told to watch out for strangers and come home when the street lights come on 🤣

I am also the mom that buys the movies and says “don’t tell dad” 😂

Oh man. The "Jennifer" sketch killed me. I am one of those Jennifer's. We are EVERYWHERE.

Watching you listen to the recording of the movie times was so great. Wow the memories flooded in. Thank you

I remember my mom shoving us outside in the summer and locking the door! She left food on the porch and we had to be home when the sun touched the horizon.

I'm 19 I don't quite understand why I watch some of these videos seeing as I don't plan to use this knowledge for a long time if ever, but you seem like such a lovely person and I like your energy, so I do. Your videos are fun to watch even if with half of them I probably won't be using this information for a long time. Still helpful though.

Omfg you are just the best. Such an accurate and real view of parenting. It’s sad how different it is now

I love this 😀! I was born in 1957. We had a black and white TV and NO phone in our house until I was 9 yrs. old! Such different times.

This was so on point. 😆. The Blockbuster 3 day was LIFE baby!!!!

Not even a parent but I love this channel! Gwenna you are golden!!

I love this !! 80s baby here and this is so accurate ! Makes me miss being a kid .. I am very over bearing with my kids . This video taught me I need to chill out some . Us 80s and 90s kids turned out fine !!! 😁

Your kids are so lucky to have you as a parent. Words aren't enough to thank you for sharing your life online. It really has helped me be a better parent.

Laws have mercy!! I about pissed my pants 😂watching this!! You are soooo on point with all these!! Don’t stop doing what your doing girl, love it!!

This triggered me lol 😆 thanks for the reminder that I need therapy. In all seriousness, thank you, I love you, your parenting style and your ability to bring humor to the darker subjects of being a mom

Omg the 80/90s mom is how I grew up 😲. Nailed it ! And I'm turning into my mama 🤦‍♀️minus the spanking and yelling.

I miss so much being a kid in the 90's. I remember being outside all day with the kids in the neighborhood during the summer. As long as I checked in every couple hours, I was free range. We might be more technologically advanced, but it was at a cost that we will never get back.

I love her RU-vid shorts I ran across. Absolutely hilarious and relatable. Always get my dose of laughs from her. Thank you.

About kid #3..to #4.. (I have 5 kids)... I became more of the Boomer mom.. I'm 33. I have learned after being a mom for 11 years and having this many kiddos, that kids are happier and more respectful when they have safe freedom and independence, and their immune systems get stronger when they play in dirt, or even crawl around on the grocery store floor, and my bank account can't feed my family well enough or bellies to filling, with organic and whatever food.. and hey I can't afford to purchase a family movie night if I'm buying organic food..

I have kids in two generations. During the sixties, I was the 'permissive' mother because I didn't spank my kids but rather had conversations with them about why they weren't allowed to do dangerous/stupid/or harmful things. I also 'listened' to them. They were not permitted to back talk or to shirk responsibility. They were relatively easy to raise and we were as happy as a single, poverty stricken mom with five kids could be, I suppose. While raising my last kid, born in 1980 (who actually led me to this site!), I was the Strict Mom. I raised her the same as her siblings but with a more watchful eye. She was still expected to be responsible and respectful. By then, most of her peers were screaming/swearing at their parents, demanding everything that wasn't nailed down, and just generally being a pain in the pants. For the early part of her childhood, my last kid did not want to have friends her own age and preferred the company of adults. I'm SO glad I'm no longer raising children. The job appears to be more difficult than ever.

Your YT shorts of this drew me in!!my childhood and present all in one video!! Hysterical!!

"nothing off the 3-days shelf" 😂🤣😂 I remember those days!!

20th century mom reminded me of my dad and Are you bleeding? Is your arm falling off? Are you dying?.. you're good.. LOL

I’m 61 and this may be the most relatable video I’ve ever watched. 😂 You are hilarious!!

Bahahaha!!! The customer service representative is so on point! Lol

The "Eeeew yakkieeee!" Part gets me every time!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Definitely going down in the books under “best video ever!” I loved it and related to it all. I’m stuck in the middle on how I grew up and how I’m raising my littlest now. You’re a genius!

Legit truth on the Jennifer's!!! Everyone was named Jennifer in the 70s. They walked into the nursery and said this half Jennifer and this half Jason. Lol

Bahahahaha I totally forgot about the movie times!!! Also calling popcorn for the exact time, and the tv channel guide 😂

This is exactly what I need! Thank you so much. So right on!