Instagram / @mindsetmentress It can be easy to let your parents’ opinions influence your life, whether you fully realize it or not. Yes, even when you have kids of your own — after all, the little voice in the back of your head probably learned a thing or two from the people that raised you....
TikTok / @livschreiber Our culture doesn’t exactly make aging “fun.” Getting older is stigmatized, and if you can’t stop it with diets, face lifts, or chemical peels, well, you might as well just accept it. Got a few wrinkles? Well, you’re old now. Act like it! It can be difficult to watch the older people...
Instagram / @heyjanellemarie “Why? I’ll tell you why, because I said so!” Sound familiar? “Because I said so,” is a staple of boomer parenting vocab. It exemplifies all of the parenting behaviors we’ve left in the past: the idea that children’s thoughts and feelings don’t matter, and that parents are always, without fail, correct. Millennials’...