this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
871 points (90.2% liked)

memes

17574 readers
2412 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads/AI SlopNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

(TikTok screenshot)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (27 children)

The answer isn't to beat your kids though. I just think the current generation is taking the good advice to not hit your kids and is too impatient (or doesn't have enough time) to actually raise kids that aren't screaming all the damn time.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Well, neither is true, though. Newer generations don't just magically have less patience. Nor children today are more prone to tantrums and screaming than children in the past 30 million years. That's just good old, "back in my days", backwards thinking that has, ironically, also always existed amongst the older generations.

It's a song and dance, driven by evolution, it has happened before and it will continue to happen. As this thread and hundreds of threads, and newspaper articles, and postcards, and letters, and books, and clay tablets and campfire rants have proven, ever since humans developed speech.

Kids these days.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

The internet has drastically and measurably changed the behavior and attention span of children.

[–] Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Socrates said the same thing about books.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

And that is equally true.

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (23 replies)