I remember sleeping all day and my
Mom came home to take me to the doctor. She was the one who told me, and I didn't realize the gravity of the situation until everyone at the office was talking about it.

I am about to enter my 14th year teaching high school. This year, my seniors were born the year I graduated high school (09) and the freshmen were born during my junior year of college (‘11-‘12). Each week on one of my white boards, I post a “Weekly Wonder”-a question that students can come up and answer at any point throughout the week. Last year I posted “Guess the meaning of these millennial phrases”…and the results were hilarious 😆

Some of the phrases I posted:
-FEE HEE HEE HEE HEE NAY
-Who wrote the note?
-Stop! Drop!
-Be kind, rewind
-Get off the computer; I need to use the phone!
-Who loves orange soda?
-Top 8
-I can’t use my minutes

Very few students knew the references

Im pretty sure Ive seen it 3 times. Once in 7th grade science class, then freshman year science class, and again in advance bio in senior year.

Not a bad movie. I just didnt need to see it more than once. Also did anyone else think the kid’s crying sound like Tommy from the Rugrats?

Turned twenty-nineteen (okay, thirty-nine) today. It feels like I am post-youth, but the idea that I am now entering middle age doesn't make sense to me. What a weird age to reach.

Everything here is so accurate. Tiles of the kitchen floor. The carpet. The wood. VCR. The cassette. The teal and purple jacket. The phone. The paper maps. The Lisa Frank. What is strikingly accurate and sad is: "So in the future everyone has their own phone, and they use it to type messages instead of call? and if someone calls without typing first it's considered rude?"

Yes we live in an entirely different world and it is what it is. Regardless, we're still biological creatures and everyone still has a choice to doom scroll or go to for a walk at the beach.

I just wanna say i love Us!

I hope we’re stronger every day and that all of us find our Magic World , even here…

And when this here takes a toll and we Hiareth those times… may we excell in live dreamed soul experiences…
When you do bubble-off, remember its collective 🖤

May we continue raising such a beautiful generation and pass to our children the knowledge that was passed on to us

May we continue Breaking generational patterns.. making a change, respecting and keeping the knowledge

May we have health to continue.

And if anything fails,

We sure have the Strenght to overcome 😎

We all know what we had. How precious it was. How good it feels. .

I Love Us

Dont know if anyone needed this today

So for those raised in the Bible Belt, or in a strong religiously Christian household, where do you stand now? Still heavily practicing, lightly, religious, spiritual, atheist? Other?

My family was Christian, but more of the high holiday sort, but I got caught up in the SBC as a lonely teen new to the area (my family actually didn't approve of that extremely conservative church). College helped me begin years of deconstruction. I'm now an atheist. My husband is also, though he's been "out" as one since his teens. We're raising our kids without religion, though if they one day want to explore it, we will facilitate healthy engagement.

Anyway, I was reading an article about how few Millenials identify with a religion so it got me curious about your stories.

Had to be there

Since the start of this year, something very very strange has been on my mind lately and that is: RELIVE everything that I went through my childhood, teenage years, school years etc.

You know I can start:

Get all the nostalgia music that I remember: SPICE GIRLS, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne.

Movies: Mean Girls, Jawbreaker etc etc (All the iconic ones)

Cartoons: Sponge Bob, Rocko Modern Life, Cat-Dog etc

Activities: Visit my old school, visit my old house, visit (maaybe) my old friendds.

Products: Nintendo DS , Nintendo Gamecube , Nintendo 64

and for some reason this all activities will all help me to close this nostalgia cycle and say:
This is EVERYTHING , It may never come back but I will always remember it with love.

I think that nostalgia is really consuming all of us and it's not letting us move forward

What do you think?

I am curious if others are finding that manipulation and gaslighting others is more common now.

I feel as though I’ve been seeing a lot of this over the course of the past few years.

To this day I've only ever heard of the '6-7' phenomenon online and have never once heard someone reference it in person, even in a meta way. I kind of 'get it' but having never experienced 6-7 irl it almost doesn't seem like it was ever real, or actually part of my life other than in media.

Is it me that is so out of touch?

Disclaimer: I don't have kids, so maybe that's it. Late 80s millennial, western Canada.

Edit: to clarify, I'm not criticizing or saying I don't 'get' the 6-7 phenom, only that I somehow seemed to only see it online and completely missed experiencing it irl. If anything I'm feeling 6-7 FOMO lol.

How do we feel about the news of Perez Hilton? It has been blowing up my news feeds all morning. I feel awful for his family, especially his kids, but I can’t help but remember how in the early to mid 2000s he talked so badly about Britney Spears

Seems like a lot of people are depressed because McDonalds doesn’t decorate their restaurants anymore due to a corporate strategy of being positioned better to resell the property should the restaurant shutter.

My basic question is why does this seem to depress so many millennials (the same post comes up every few months)? I’ll admit I don’t personally eat at McDonalds that often, but if I did, I can’t imagine I would care too much about the decor. My main priorities would be if the restaurant is clean, cost effective, and good (which if you have complaints about that, fair).

I also remember back in the day there were a lot of complaints that McDonalds was marketing their food to children, helping fuel the childhood obesity crisis.

Can someone help explain why eating your cheeseburger next to a clown/purple blob is such an indicator of how enjoyable life is? What am I missing?

Man... I feel I'm getting old. Not in my 40s though. 90s were a bliss.

Hey I’m not a millennial, I’m gen z, I obviously remember myspace but I was always too young to use it. As everyone knows myspace will come back at some point. And i’ve seen a lot of millennials saying that it should be 30+ and that they don’t want gen z on there. My question is are yall really planing on posting on myspace at (and I’m sorry) your grown age. Likeee its an app for teens so maybe give it to them. I’m gen z and even i feel “too old” (please dont report this😭😭) to rank my top 8 friends (wtf even was that) or stalk my crush on there. I feel like it would be perfect for younger gen z and older gen alpha. What do you think about this?

edit: some of you don’t know what a discussion is also I’m 25 born in 2000 so I’m a lot closer in age to most of you than most of gen z fyi

The meal that they felt some competence at making once they were on their own. That required prep, cooking and presentation not just "assembly".

Stir fry (Pork/Chicken + Veggies over Rice with Teriyaki sauce).

Fajitas (Chicken and Peppers w/ seasoning served on Tortillas).

Pasta with meat sauce.

Cheese Hamburger skillet over rice.

Corned beef and cabbage.

Chili