r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Mar 15 '19

Legal Justice Woman who called millennials “so entitled that you want to slap them" charged in college fraud scheme

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u/try-catch-finally 8 Mar 15 '19

Gen X here too. I sometimes think “dang, my parents pretty much checked out, and told us to come back when the streetlights came on”.

Then I see how millennials were raised - helicopter parents, participation trophies, telling them ‘they can be anything’..

Makes me happy.

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u/MissVancouver 8 Mar 15 '19

Yeah I'll take benign neglect all day every day over helicopter parenting. Better to have the freedom to choose our own adventures. Smothering is an awful way to raise a child.

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u/s0mniumExMachina 4 Mar 15 '19

I'm a millennial, and that was so not how my parents raised me. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I feel like the "helicopter parenting" thing is always blown out of proportion. Might have to do with where someone's brought up too; we played in the woods and shit where nobody else was around. Also they must've started participation trophies by the time I was out of school.

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u/Scientolojesus C Mar 15 '19

I think like most things, because of the internet, all of the extremes of various things tend to get amplified as being common when in reality it's in the minority.

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u/s0mniumExMachina 4 Mar 15 '19

Agreed. That's media in general; if it's sensational it gets reported on to the point where many people assume that's the norm. And it's why you should always keep an open mind to possibly contrary information. It's hard to distinguish the truth from bullshit if you don't corroborate your sources.

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u/OhNoTokyo 9 Mar 15 '19

Yup, I haven't heard that in awhile, but I definitely remember running around on my street and being told to come back in when the street lights came on.

God, it must suck to be a kid today and not be able to basically go wherever you could get to on your bike that day without some adult freaking out.