• radiofreebc@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, they’re called “Generation X” and were treated more as trophies than part of the family by their boomer parents. They used to have to run commercials on TV to remind boomers that they actually had kids who were still running around outside, trying to fend for themselves.

    Gen X raised themselves.

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      Now we have the opposite problem. Parents expect to GPS track their kids 24/7 and they probably aren’t allowed outside in the first place

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        Meanwhile six year olds in Japan take the train and/or subway to school all alone, 12 year olds in vietnam ride electric scooters on 60 kph roads to get to school, and I met a chinese 16 year old crossing vietnam by motorbike all by himself.

        • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          My parents did that to me as well until one day when I was like 6. I kept trying to get inside to cool off and my mom kept telling me it was too nice out to be indoors until eventually I threw up and passed out.

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        Yeah sadly my wife was pretty anxious about our kids being out unattended, I ended up having to get a gps device for my youngest so that he could be the little extrovert that he is. I blame the news for all the panic.

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        I wouldn’t want to have gen X or millenials as parents, boomers were bad enough.

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      2 months ago

      “It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are?”

      (We were raised on house water and neglect)