Comment on Turns out Boomers did have participation trophies

radiofreebc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yup. Also, Vietnamese parents dropping off very little kids outside school mostly just plop them down on the pavement outside, say bye, and ride off.

      Boys on unplated electric scooters are a liability though, I’ve seen loads of them getting into crashes

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      • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Don’t worry, europe has the same problem but with fatbikes.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All of these things happen in the US too. This country is massive and incredibly varied.

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      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m american lol no the fuck you don’t see 6 year olds taking public transit by themselves.

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  • radiofreebc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My brother and i weren’t allowed inside the house if it was a nice day outside.

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    • Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Heard a teacher talking about fifth graders [about 11 years old] who were asking her to tie their shoes.

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  • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-do-nothing-with-nobody-all-alone-by-yourself-a-timeless-activity-guide-to-self-reliant-play-and-joyful-solitude-robert-paul-smith/fdef205eb5d3a604

      How To Do Nothing With No One All Alone By Yourself.

      Great book for a kid.

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      • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Hmm that might’ve been useful, but my last one is full grown now. Just glad he was able to be an urban explorer like I was back then

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

  (We were raised on house water and neglect)

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• Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s 10 p.m. do you know where your parents are?

  And then there was that time Rock & Rule aired on one of the 3 free TV channels and changed all our lives, as we struggled to adjust the rabbit ears. Interrupted only by the occasional glance out the window looking for the car pulling into the driveway because you were told to be in bed by 9:30 and better not be up when your folks got home.

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Elder millennials too

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• Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Uhh Gen X… 1961? Close but still boomer.

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