GenX were the last cohort to have a childhood without the internet, but the first to be raised entirely by TV.
We GenX were also the last to be allowed a childhood. I grew up with hours and days of adult-free time to roam, w/ and w/o my peers.
Conversely, my kids gen were the first to grow up fully imprisoned. Every minute was spent in adult-populated, adult-curated boxes. If they defied the lie-based hysteria about kidnapping risk and went outside, there was nowhere to go. In every direction are roads and trespassing risks.
As near as I can tell, this growth-killing hell is a permanent fixture of childhood. With most joy placed beyond reach of kids and parenting time up 20-fold, our modern declining birth rate is the natural, reasonable response.
This reads like a boomer Facebook post based on anecdotes extrapolated into a worldview centered around the core idea that everyone but you is raising their kids wrong.
Norms evolve from generation to generation, always have, there's no need to exaggerate and appeal to emotion by calling a whole generation of kids "imprisoned". I listened to supposedly satanic music as a kid, I turned out okay despite what the older generation predicted.
> This reads like a boomer Facebook post based on anecdotes extrapolated into a worldview centered around the core idea that everyone but you is raising their kids wrong.
For your criticism to be valid, my assertions would need to be factually inaccurate - in that they do not well represent the my generations' childhoods and the same for my kids' generation.
Otherwise, it seems like you're just vibing at me for having vibes.
Removing the critically descriptive adjectives from my quotes and then presenting that as my argument - there's not much good faith attempt at discussion in that. It just seems like more lashing out.
The fact is you are wrong. You had a childhood as did every other adult. It was no more real or better than modern childhoods.
It was just different, and maybe one of the last periods of non-digital childhoods in mainstream human history, yes, but using that to just take a big fat emotional glory dump on every person born after you is pathetic.
GenX were the last cohort to have a childhood without the internet, but the first to be raised entirely by TV.
We GenX were also the last to be allowed a childhood. I grew up with hours and days of adult-free time to roam, w/ and w/o my peers.
Conversely, my kids gen were the first to grow up fully imprisoned. Every minute was spent in adult-populated, adult-curated boxes. If they defied the lie-based hysteria about kidnapping risk and went outside, there was nowhere to go. In every direction are roads and trespassing risks.
As near as I can tell, this growth-killing hell is a permanent fixture of childhood. With most joy placed beyond reach of kids and parenting time up 20-fold, our modern declining birth rate is the natural, reasonable response.
This reads like a boomer Facebook post based on anecdotes extrapolated into a worldview centered around the core idea that everyone but you is raising their kids wrong.
Norms evolve from generation to generation, always have, there's no need to exaggerate and appeal to emotion by calling a whole generation of kids "imprisoned". I listened to supposedly satanic music as a kid, I turned out okay despite what the older generation predicted.
I'm glad you're here to judge and approve everyone's posts, you smug moralist.
> This reads like a boomer Facebook post based on anecdotes extrapolated into a worldview centered around the core idea that everyone but you is raising their kids wrong.
For your criticism to be valid, my assertions would need to be factually inaccurate - in that they do not well represent the my generations' childhoods and the same for my kids' generation.
Otherwise, it seems like you're just vibing at me for having vibes.
The burden of proof is on the dramatic claim that a generation of "imprisoned" children haven't been "allowed a childhood".
Removing the critically descriptive adjectives from my quotes and then presenting that as my argument - there's not much good faith attempt at discussion in that. It just seems like more lashing out.
The fact is you are wrong. You had a childhood as did every other adult. It was no more real or better than modern childhoods.
It was just different, and maybe one of the last periods of non-digital childhoods in mainstream human history, yes, but using that to just take a big fat emotional glory dump on every person born after you is pathetic.