Mum begs 'boomers' to stop approaching and talking to kids they don’t know
A parent has hit out at strangers who try to talk to her child after one particularly uncomfortable conversation. The mum, who goes under the handle kay.n.zee on TikTok, took to the platform to vent about a boomer – someone born between the late 1940s and mid-1960s - who tried to converse with her daughter.
Speaking on the platform, Kay said: “My mom request as a millennial mom for boomers to stop talking to children that you don’t know other than simple things like ‘Hi’ or ‘I like your shoes’. My daughter and I were just at Target and this boomer came up to us, she looked at my daughter she says ‘Oh you are so pretty'. And my daughter just looks at her and doesn’t say anything because she doesn’t talk to people she doesn’t know.
"I said ‘Oh thank you’. She just stands there for a few moments like waiting for my daughter to respond, and then she says ‘Oh look at those eyes, so pretty’, and I say ‘Thank you, she’s shy she doesn’t talk to people that she doesn’t know.’”
The conversation was taken lightly until the mystery chatterbox probed a little further, with Kay continuing: “And again she just stands there and she says ‘You don’t think you’re pretty’ just like that. I was like ‘Oh my god, no she knows she’s beautiful she just doesn’t talk to people she doesn’t know.’ Why would you even plant that idea into her head, my daughter is two and a half, she doesn’t know what ‘not pretty’ is. She knows that everyone and everything is pretty, beautiful and interesting.
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“Millennial and Gen Z parents are working so hard to break the toxic cycles of self-loathing and self-hatred that boomers instilled in them, but it’s like every chance they get to puke it out onto an innocent child, they take it, it’s so annoying.”
But this wasn’t the first time for the mum and daughter to be involved in an uncomfortable conversation. The TikTokker shared another account: “Then another weird thing that happened, this was a while ago, my husband’s family is from Bangladesh, his skin is brown and I’m very obviously very white, and our daughter is lighter than him and darker than me. Again we were out at a store and this boomer man came up to us and looked at my daughter and he goes ‘Man, she is beautiful, look at that perfect olive complexion, where is her father from?’ Leave us alone, please stop talking to us.”
Some TikTokkers related to the parent’s complaint, as one commented: “When I was a kid I was so weirded out by random adults talking to me.” Another empathised, and shared: “I’ve had people act like my child’s silence is a challenge to get my child to speak.” A third added: “This is why it’s so hard for me to take my kids to the grocery stores. The older generations just don’t respect normal boundaries.”
However, other TikTok users defended boomers and conversationalists, as one wrote: “It’s hard for boomers when they were younger the world wasn’t so individualistic so talking to people was considered normal.”
A separate TikTokker commented: “As a teacher, the more social interaction with unknown people the better. As long as it’s safe it’s skill building.” Another defended: “1980 gen x here. You can teach her to be both engaging, friendly and not fearful of community while still teaching her caution.”
“Why are people so hostile? When old people talk to me and my daughter I think it’s them just connecting with another person and their past”, shared another.
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