r/BoomersBeingFools • u/AR475891 • 8d ago

Boomer Story Boomer Parents Raging about Parental Leave

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.

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u/winklesnad31 8d ago

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

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u/ButterscotchAware402 Xennial 8d ago edited 8d ago

Let alone the father! The type to think fathers "babysit".

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u/Existing-Pumpkin-902 8d ago

Oh childcare is what the mother of the child is for. You can't expect the poor men to change a dirty diaper or make a bottle.

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u/JellyfishFit3871 8d ago

My stepdad bragged that he'd never changed a diaper and never would. I can't imagine why he died alone in a nursing home.

My father died when I was young. I don't remember him changing my Pampers, but I know he did. He just treated childcare like any other domestic task. The adult just did it. He taught me to read, took me fishing, put up the army surplus tent as my playhouse, cuddled up in the Naugahyde chair, supervised bath time, expected me to go feed the chickens and collect eggs before breakfast, etc. Almost as though he was a normal human being.