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Let's rethink how we raise our kids - less screens, more beans

With the girl crying she’s talking about how she hates having to drive 3 hours to the job, it’s not that she hates it. She says she loves the job. And I think it’s valid to be upset that she doesn’t get any time for things due to traveling to work taking up most of her time.

When my older sister was younger she was throwing a tantrum in the grocery store once and my mom got on the ground and started screaming just like her and it was so jarring to my sister that she stopped and never did it again

"I wasn't bribed by my parents, I was blackmailed by my parents." Dude, same. 😂😢

Rest in peace gen alpha...

As a parent of an infant and a 3 year old, it is a LOT of work to raise kids. There ARE embarrassing moments in grocery stores and restaurants and I’ve gotten my share of nasty looks from people when my kiddo is having a tough time. But you know what won’t help them become tolerable human beings? Giving them my phone to distract them through the store. They have to learn how to behave in public and social situations, and It’s my job to teach them, no matter how tired, distracted, or stressed I am.

I’m gen z and when I was a kid I would find a cool stick or a box and be occupied for a few days then I got bored and started throwing rocks at trees or something

I remember when I was a kid in the 80's & wanted my dad to buy me a toy, he told me we didnt have the money & I said but you still have checks in the checkbook. When we got home I was forced to sit down with him & listen as he explained all the bills & how he had to schedule them to match his paycheck. I tried to not ask for anything after that lesson.

I think there was a misunderstanding with the girl complaining about a 9-5, she even says she likes her job in the video and that theres zero problems with the job its that she has to drive like 3 hours totals out of her day to to/from there. What this means is that travel eats all freetime away for basically nothing just 40% of your day gone (assuming you sleep 8 hours and work 8). Anyone dealing with something like this definitely has validity to complain especially when its not even related to the work itself. If anything this is a housing/apartment availability problem which everyone in US is dealing with not just someone complaining about work.

I work two retail jobs and the amount of entitlement and arrogance I see every day is mind boggling. Parents will let their kids destroy a store and then say "It's ok, someone who works here will clean this up, it's their job." It's so frustrating how much of their behavior people will excuse because they think retail workers are so much less than they are and "the customer is always right."💜

"Other people have it way worse" is one of my least favorite phrases 🙃

I work on a farm, my bosses oldest son (7) already knows what I need when welding and tries to help out by bringing me things. All of his 3 kids give me hope that humans can have a future. What they are missing in their daily life are Ipads, smartphones, junkfood and idiots. Must be coincidence.

I love how the parents record their children doing this and then saying that there’s a problem with this generation when they are the problem…

I feel like there's a mix between tough love and gentle parenting that works out well. Don't be too tough to where you make your kids cry or feel like they're in prison, but also don't let them walk all over you.

34:31 personally, at my last job, i used to cry before and after every shift. I worked 8+ hour shifts 6 days a week in a very busy place, and was often scheduled alone due to being understaffed. I think some people just cry when they’re overwhelmed and others are able to just compartmentalize

as someone whos a gen z person who grew up with phones and ipads, i am turning 18 this year in november and its stressing me out and very stressful but i am going to try my best

I have seen people who eat and/or drink while they’re shopping but they would take the container to the register and pay for whatever they ate or drank before they left. I have the feeling that a lot of the people who do this at Walmart aren’t paying for it afterwards.

I've been working for about 9 years now. Did 4 years of being a graveyard gas station clerk and then now 5 years of being a barista. The exponential loss of wanting to do the things I love because of the lack of energy is a lot. And sometimes that desire to be 'productive' and 'useful' will bleed into my hobbies, but i will hold onto the fact i am at least doing something for fun. And then ill think back to one of my favorite teachers making us do nothing for a whole minute to teach us that we need to embrace that we don't need to do something every minute of every day. To take some time to do nothing before you lose the ability to....

It's concerning seeing how violent these kids are getting well they're being spoiled. It feels like an abusive household waiting to happen and a lot of these parents don't realize their raising possible abusers :(

I've been saying this for nearly 20 years "I fear for the future of humanity." This just reinforces my fears.

ive seen a girl mace a teacher for taking her phone in class, kids now consider it as important as a bodypart they treat it like apart of themselves its crazy

iPad babies, the bane of my existence. My wife and I are expecting our first soon and this video is basically antithetical to how we will raise our kid. Nothing is worse than a spoiled child

My bf, his son stays with his mom most of the time, we have him every other weekend. He is ADDICTED TO SCREENS...ANY SCREEN. It is so sad. We try to limit what he can do on a screen but we catch him face glued to the Alexa as a substitute to a tablet, or if we walk in a store or restaurant that has a self check out screen kiosk, electronic advertisement, anything with a screen he instantly runs over and is so fixated on it, we have to pull him away multiple times.....And the mom says she doesn't like him using screens...mhmmmm

You don't see people who do hard jobs complain about it because they often die doing it so I don't see how sacrificing you life for a job is somehow better than complaining about things in the job that lead to that outcome. I thought jobs were means for survival and not a tool for self-destruction.

I know a child who’s parents have a rule where they never tell her no. It’s the most disgusting thing ever

Im a gen z, and its so sad to see my baby brother get handed an ipad at the age of 3, in 2013 i did not even know what an ipad was. now when i try talking to him he just sits there and does nothing, he does not even say anything back. its sad to see the downfall of his generation

I’m a child therapist, and in my professional opinion, I agree…they’re fked. The kids who seem to be doing the best do a lot of activities and have limited screen time. Extremely limited for the little ones. Not to make excuses for them but not all parents have the time to be monitoring their kids all the time because of financial reasons. So I think we should think of this as a societal issue. We need free childcare for those who need it. Some of my friends and I are postponing having kids or not having them at all because it’s a hard time to have kids. I don’t think it would be fair to the kid if I had one right now.

It’s genuinely sad if you think about it.

30:00 she was saying the work is fine, her point was that it takes forever to get to that job because living near it would be to expensive and not having time in the day for anything else. Which is a 100% reasonable complaint. Crazy how many people missreperesent the video since she states all of this very clearly.

When working 40+hrs a week until your basically 80 to retire, if you even are in a position to retire. Only to have nothing to leave the people you care about. Yeah everything just feels like filler until the day you die. And that's the lucky people.

I was one of those "do whatever you want" kids mostly because my parents had no clue how to be parents and they clearly didn't want to be, and I definitely hold it against them that I was raised that way. My therapist called it what it was, neglect.

i work with kids. when theyre being upset/difficult. i explain why i need them to tell me whats wrong, make sure they're heard. since i work with groups i always without doubt ask both sides. make them listen to eachother, usually already fixes alot. what i also do is give them options that work in my favour, it gives them the feeling of control in the sitution which i think helps em calm down.

The flame of humanity. Ah, yes. The fabled griddy 😭

i do genuinely worry for the kids growing up now, so many kids being left in daycare away from their parents all day, not going outside, having less and less real friends, its honestly scary to think how hard its gonna be for them when they reach adulthood and have no clue what theyre doing

Generation 1 affected by screen time, started on PC in grade 3, the longer term affects seem to be developing blue light sensitivity which means I can no longer keep my focus while looking at screens for long periods or in a dark environment. Once overstimulated by the blue light I get into a trance and cannot look away nor pay attention to what is on the screen. Only thing I can do is limit screen time to daylight hours and keep it short while wearing blue light filtering glasses. When I look at my phone in the dark I instantly forget why I looked in the first place and instantly tune out the world around me.

Had a work panic attack the other day.. fell over shaking walking into the metal detectors right at the time clocks in front of all of managers and supervisors. Had to go to HR, they thought i was under the influence and it all just threw me into another spiral. I still have my job so thats cool. Hearing you gave the boy inpiration to keep pursuing my dreams, amongst the inevitble work, exhaustion, and struggle.

It's so over for Gen Alpha 💀

saying je ne sais quoi and then saying “i don’t know what that means” is so funny to me 😭 it literally means i don’t know what

I’ve come across a family eating the chicken from the deli in the non-grocery area. And they were all adults and were just blocking up the whole area and didn’t seem to care. No one was recording.

I dont understand why we as a society always say things like "this is the problem with (insert child aged gen) generation. Its the parents. We cant blame the person because they aren't even adults yet. We need to reword these phrases to stop the kids from feeling guilty about how their peers act as a product of poor parenting.

I hate doing this… but from the time I was 18 until 2 years ago at 28 I worked as a “selector” in a warehouse. You “drove” this motorized pallet jack and picked cases out of warehouse slots to build these pallets to be shipped to stores. Each case was 40-100 lbs, and you had to hit a calculated rate for the cases you selected that ended up being around 220/hr. Now, the base pay at 100% was $24/hr, and for every 1% over that you maintained you got another 10¢ an hour, capped off at 135%. If you went above that you could choose to get paid by the case. It was 7¢ a case for the first 10,000 in a week, and once you went over that it would jump to 15¢ a case. So there was guys making $5000 a week sometimes, since it was a 60 hour week. Then they’d send you across the country and pay for everything while you were gone (hotel, rental, food) and you’d make a flat 13 week average of your highest 13 weeks… so there was money to be made if you literally broke yourself. I’m now 30. I’ve had 2 hernia surgeries, and I need a spinal fusion. I’m sure my replacement’s replacement is already gone.

I grew up in the rural south in the 1990-2000s. So many people I knew ate a very similar diet that the first mom is showing. I really don’t think this is a new phenomenon. It’s just that people show it on social media now.

I was born in 05 so i’m gen z. My parents never allowed me to have social media until I turned 18 which I’m extremely thankful for. I suffer from mental health problems as is and growing up without the exposure of how toxic social media is has saved me and i’m glad i don’t rely on it like others my age do. Even now being able to get social media if i want to, i’ve chosen not to because i personally don’t find the need in it. I did have a phone growing up but only to call my parents when I got home from school because I walked and we got rid of our home phone.

When i have a kid, no screens, we going amish style to raise that kid. Only well researched books and life lessons, try and pray the school classmates dont rot their brain and such.

I got laid off recently and I’ve been the most stress free I’ve been in a while. I dread having to go back. Trying to figure out what hobby I can make into a career because that seems to be the only way out. Will have to find something tolerable in the mean time

the little girl screaming for her mom to clean her room just gave me flashbacks to all the times I got in trouble for my messy room and had to clean it up myself

honestly i needed to hear that part about anxiety and depression and how its basically impossible for people to talk abt it at all because of the selfishness ive been living in pain for 14 years now and im 21 im happy i got to hear that and people really do need to start listening more and stop feeding into those people i wake up every day from my heart beating out of my chest and unable to do a lot because of the pain i love you man this gave me a bit of a jump to try harder thank you

I live in Greece, from since I was a baby and I remember having the option to eat/drink something inside the supermarket, even adults do it sometimes. Never heard someone get scolded about it. Everyone obviously keeps the wrapping with the barcode intact, so you pay for it on the way out as you would normally. Especially in the US where supermarkets are enormous, I would've imagined you'd see that often.

Most stores including Walmart do not care about drinking or consuming food in their store as long as they eventually pay for it, I would spend 2 hours at Walmart and drink a vitamin water while I was shopping but I would scan the empty bottle when I got to the self check out and still pay for it

The worst customers [I think] that I encounter in retail are the parents that just let their kids do whatever in the store. I always say they need to pay us for babysitting, because I routinely have to stop kids from doing dangerous/damaging things.

I lost use of my right arm(which also was my dominant arm) at 19 from football. Life has been full of chronic nerve pain since. Sometimes the pain is unbearable.I still have to work on top of that. Life can always be worse for me, even. Stay grateful. My dream in life is to live like you do.

I am the same in regards to gifting. I love giving my friends things that I know they'll use and genuinely enjoy the whole process. I definitely don't mind receiving a gift but I never gift with the expectation that I'm getting one in return.

Sadly, there's enough older generation who either don't want to give up the power they hold, or, they don't want anyone but their family to wield the power have.

I feel that it is valid to feel like some people feel about working a 9-5. In this current economy, my generation cannot EVER buy a house to live in. I have seen videos of people on Twitter living in their cars whilst having a full time job because they cannot afford the rent. Saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in college loans, they feel that it is hopeless. And in that sense, it kind of is. It is truly sad to witness.

I worked in a daycare where a mom once jokingly said "haha, dont judge me" as she brought in her 3 years old sons breakfast of 24 bakery donuts for the third day in a row... and when it wasn't that it was those mini donuts daily. And it was no surprise when he would just stare at us with dead fish eyes when you talked to him during circle time.

My kid not getting an iPad or phone until they’re at least 10

Letting your kid have and do whatever they want whenever they want is exactly how spoiled rich kids are brought up and they aren’t usually the best people

4:25 The fact I took a whole year of my life to research how to keep little SHRIMP, but this mother couldn't take five minutes to research the dietary requirements for a CHILD is just ... depressing to me. :/ Also shrimp are some of the coolest pets you can own. I adore them. I have a whole 30 gallon tank full of them and snails. It's hard work, but it's worth it cause they are all kinds of cool colors. Yes, I am advertising shrimp, but DO research first. Weeeeeeee.

I’m with you Oompa when I was growing up my dads version of watching me was “I’ve got chores to do go hunt birds with your dog or go shoot bow or do something outside” and you know what I’m glad he did it made me who I am today

This hits close to home with me I am special education paraprofessional I work with kids who have behavioral issues, who are special needs or just need extra help with focusing on their academics. It truly is sad to see how this young generation is clearly struggling they’re are so many kids who are having a lot of difficulties whether it’s from iPads, and I hate to say neglect and lack of caring from the parents it truly breaks my heart. I just want to help these kids the best I can.

i babysat 3 toddlers who all had their own ipads. they had horrible anger issues and had a hard time focusing on anything if there wasn’t a screen involved. i used to dread nap time because they would fight me kicking and screaming if i took the ipad away.

I work in a tech repair shop and have been judging iPad parents for almost ten years now.

Thanks oompaville for the ricer car joke, means a lot from the car community

As someone who was a manager at a Walmart deli. Customer's are typically ok to eat the food before buying it but they are expected to buy it. Alot of of them just hide the containers on the shelf tho.

I used to complain a lot that I don’t have time for hobbies/hanging with friends. Then I accepted I had a doom scrolling problem haha. Fixed that and now I do hobbies,bjj and hanging with friends. One tip of advice is that if you want to hit the gym after work just head straight to the gym after work. Helped me out alot

I was given unsupervised access to the internet as a kid and it absolutely has done damage to me.more so due to some of the content I viewed since I had no one bothering. I’m 19 now and thankfully I got into a great art college and hoping I can carve myself out a job doing something I can love even tho I curse at it.

If I remember, you can open a soda or water and drink it while you walk around the store then pay for the empty or half drank container when you check out. I don't do this but its just something I thought was weird but its not illegal. There might be store policies that might prevent it or have it frown upon.

I sometimes cry before work too. I absolutely love my job but i have some very extreme social anxiety to the point where i feel stalked.

As gen Z who was raised with a tablet and neglected my own kid will have no devices until middleschool and their first phone won’t be a smart phone but a flip phone with only texting and calling capabilities. They will still have their privacy and will still be thoroughly educated on how to safely use the internet.

4:20 Just a lil fact, You can actually SAMPLE the food/beverage you have, but only a sample. But just know once you drink / eat the chosen object, you have to buy it. You cannot consume the whole thing or else that would be stealing.

In my country, It’s both legal, allowed and often used that you can just open the food/drinks in the supermarket as long as you pay for it afterwards

I can understand a mom not having time to fix healthy food depending on their job/home situation. Any food for a kid is better than no food… but to post it to social media is crazy. It has to be either rage bait or sympathy bait.

These last 10 years have been a wild ride. We’re gonna get to a point where having a baby is gonna be like getting your drivers licenses. Something that really scares me is the lack of social awareness and the lack of the ability to be considerate.

I got out of high school and started my own company. My high school friends HATE their debt and bleak job opportunities. I just bought a second vehicle in cash to use for fun (2012 Boxter)

I've been in the restaurant industry for 17 years....I've been through 6 jobs in about 3 years, suing one of them. I am SO tired of BS with jobs. Normal jobs are trash. Idk what to do but I'm currently unemployed....😒 Guess I don't need lights

Its the parents i have 2 nieces one is 5 the other is 3. They know how to count, the alphabet, nursery rhythms, little dances, and likes to scribble and draw. They play on devices too but they dont act like monsters!

gotta love when the fate of humanity is going to future kids who will laugh their heads off seeing some of the weirdest stuff imaginable. but then again, has gen z done much better?

Man, I just got a promotion at work and I was excited at first, more money, but more responsibility. This week alone I've had to work both my off days because others called out. Just a struggle bus all the way around.

As a teacher, attention spans are already a nightmare. I cannot imagine the incoming generations.

i've cried before and after work since i started in the workforce. ive loved my jobs and have felt accomplished but the crying is real.. (the past 10+ years)

As a millennial, I grew up playing outside most of the time. I was lucky to have examples of hard working parents. Now I am working 45+ hours a week, going to college full time (i decided to go back at the age of 31) and starting a business. I don't have a lot of free time, but I am working towards having a job that I love and it's all worth it. Also, commute to school (which i do twice a week) is 2.5 hours each way. It can be done, but I think that if i didn't grow up with hard working parents and little to no screen time daily, I wouldn't be where I am today.

I'm freshly graduated and haven't had any clue what to go to college for. So I'm currently working retail as a part time manager somewhere. Literally had a grown man argue with me for like five minutes over a 10 cent bag fee... People are awful

I’m a teacher and I get to see everyday the impact of children with internet and technology access. It makes them worry about things they have no business worrying about and they become privy to information not appropriate for their age. They also struggle so much with the word no. They always feel the need to push and push as if no is not a complete answer.

I have to take the train to work at 7:30 and get home at 6. It’s terrible especially having to pay $350 a month on a train pass.

My mom is raised us on fresh veggies. We never got baby food when we were tiny people. I really wish people would give their kids better meal options other than sugar, carbs and soda.

I had many mental breakdowns after work between social anxiety and rude customers and mean boss, but I did it because I had a baby to think about.

As a child, I had a Kindle I could read on it and there were some games and I still usually chose to play with toys or friends over it. The iPads are a whole different thing because kids can’t seem to put down

"Nanny 911" just makes me think of Southpark and Cartman.

i’ve watched for about a year now and my favorite thing i’ve gained from being an oompa subscriber is all the nutrition facts i’ve learnt overtime. you know a lot about food without making it sound like you know a lot about food and i like that

Even in the USA it is a myth that Fast Food is much cheaper than "whole foods". Cookbook author Mark Bittman has published an article and compares prices on food, and shows that while you might spend over 20 USD on a fast food for a family meal, the whole home cooked ingredients to make a healthies equiparable mean will be 13, and if on a budget, you can cut the "tasty" part and get it for 9. In NY, of all places.

i worked 4pm-12am for close to 3 years and it was driving me crazy i had to demand my company to let me work day shift and im now 9-5 3 days and 8-4 2 days of the week. also full blown nip slip at 3:34-35

My son is one and we walk outside to get eggs from our chicken coop every morning to make breakfast, it’s his favorite part of the day

Definitely one of my favorite oompaville thumbnails💀

I remember when i was younger (18 currently), i went outside and played with a few of my friends at the time in a park in our neighborhood...now its just get on the games and play a game with friends, because i dont have any friends near me to play with, either that or just suffer in silence

26:40 I worked at SpaceX for a year, and I did the same thing. Quit to chase a dream, my friend wound up f*cking me over. Now I'm fighting foreclosure! Wish me luck.

My dad and his girlfriend are like this with my younger siblings, me and my older sister grew up eatting home cooked dinners and my siblings live off of fast/frozen food and drink multiple sodas a day, they are 2, 3 and 9... They live on phones and tablets .

The fact that we don't know what this technology does to our brains, yet we’re giving it to kids, scares me. Today, children learn to sing Skibidi toilet before they even learn their ABCs...

I remember when our grocery store literally had the Candy Aisle with the big scoopers and you could just grab handfuls while shopping 😂 Nobody took complete advantage of it but it was like an understood ritual almost everybody did

Your right 90's parents knew how to do it I have Autism but nobody would know because every time I showed signs of it my father hit me in the face and threw me across the living room while screaming demons come out and he wasn't religious he just thought it was funny