Comment on Turns out Boomers did have participation trophies

• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve not seen that in Spain … mostly there we have kids on fold-up type scooters on the pavements, they aren’t in the middle of 4 lanes of traffic cutting off cars

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That school’s awful

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• radiofreebc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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