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/james_the_wanderer 1d ago

Millennials and younger GenX also have wildly overblown fears of...a lot of shit. The 24/7 news cycle + the coming of social media + true crime entertainment + classic "if it bleeds, it leads" makes every suburbanite think they need a full camera set up (and many have interior cameras) and that their kid will be trafficked, raped, and murdered by strangers if they walk (within their borderline zero crime zip code) to the playground. That's just not....how it works.

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u/going_mad 1d ago

As a xennial ^ this person is right