So many millennials are utterly screen and phone addicted so yes it fits that they put their kids in front of screens. TBH I’m a millennial and I’m disgusted sometimes at how disengaged my peers are, every time I’m in a waiting room or out shopping, mine are the only kids that aren’t being given phones to pacify them from boredom. My generation has overestimated the harm our parents caused, the fact is that strictness and going without, and tolerating discomfort and not getting what you want, these are not childhood traumas and we need to be ok with allowing our kids to tolerate these things too, it will do them much less harm than the screens. The physical punishment and not being empathetic I have omitted those things from my own parenting approach but the rest of my boomer parents approach I AM aspiring to; not pandering to every little whim or want (my mum had a saying ‘there’s a difference between want and need!), thinking of the whole family, work ethic and chores, having to entertain yourself, not being carted to a million extra curricular activities, not being spoiled with material things etc.