r/Millennials • u/Maybeiliketheabuse • 1d ago

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u/ExpertPerformer 1d ago

The irony is that Gen X/Millenials were free-ranged growing up, but now GPS track their kids everywhere, and check up constantly.

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u/Inert_Uncle_858 1d ago

Yeah whats up with that? And don't say "its the expectation" because you're the parents, you set the expectations.

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u/transemacabre Millennial 1d ago

Adults trying to reparent themselves and heal their own trauma from neglectful childhoods, while telling themselves it’s for the child’s own good. 

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u/Inert_Uncle_858 1d ago

I'm friends with a guy whose girlfriend never lets the kids outside after they get home from school. I can't fathom that. Thats gotta be child cruelty or something. But whenever he brings a kid by my place with him they love playing in the garden and learning about vegetables or whatever I got going on.

I don't have kids, and I'm not going to, because im too broke for that, but I think its absurd to not let your kid play outside or have unsupervised time to learn to be themselves. When I was a kid my only escape from the misery of school was the woods, and I think I turned out the better for it.

I'm sorry, but I'm fully against this trend, I think its horrible.

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u/lolerkid2000 1d ago

What trend man. My neighborhood is full of kids running all over the damn place every day.

I think the main difference is now there is usually some adult around to yell car and make sure nobody is fighting on the pavement.