Turns out Boomers did have participation trophies

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• radiofreebc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, they’re called “Generation X” and were treated more as trophies than families.

  Gen X raised themselves.

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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    • radiofreebc@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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    • 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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• Drusas@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Boomers invented participation trophies.

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  • FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Came here to basically say this. Who was the one handing out those participation trophies, Bill?! WHO?! Because it sure as shit wasn’t Brandon and Ashley!

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• preussischblau@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • hactar42@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Needs Butterscotch Krimpets

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• Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Boomers weren’t called the ‘Me Generation’ for nothing.

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How is this a shitpost? We already knew this, lol!

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