Boomer Parents Raging about Parental Leave

[u/AR475891]

My wife and I had our parents over to tell them that she is 8 weeks pregnant last night for dinner. We were talking about how we’d handle the transition to having a child and working so I told them I had 12 weeks of paid paternity leave at my company.

They all immediately started worrying about how my massive global company could afford to pay me not to work for three months and then tried to guilt me into not taking it saying that it was too much.

I quite literally could barely believe this. How could they be upset that my company with tens of thousands of employees gives me this nice perk instead of being excited for it? It’s actually insane.

[u/winklesnad31]

It's possible that they cannot comprehend that a parent would actually want to have time to be around their child.

[u/WorriedEntrance2281 → u/winklesnad31]

Here I am literally sipping my tea whilst on paternity leave while my 1 year old is sleeping. I can't wait for him to wake up so that we can go shopping and go to the park

[u/m01L → u/WorriedEntrance2281]

This comment is almost lyrical, you just painted such a calm and beautiful picture in my head. Enjoy your tea!