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Don‘t forget many German parents still engage in helicopter parenting, too. But it is frowned upon by the majority. I for one, as a 6 year old in 1989, was allo
by geff82 9y ago
Don‘t forget many German parents still engage in helicopter parenting, too. But it is frowned upon by the majority. I for one, as a 6 year old in 1989, was allowed to travel by bike to the next village alone or with friends. I was buying bread at the bakery (about 1km away) and the way home from school as a first grader sometimes took an hour because we were playing at a small river nearby. All without phones. Luckily, I still see really small children walk to school without parents evry day.
- marenkay 9y ago"Still" might be the wrong word here. Helicopter parenting is more an issue for the post 2000 years and was never this extreme before. Considering public transportation, good infrastructure to schools or kindergartens was not really available in the 1980s in many German cities. E.g. my school was a 6km walk with no busses or trains going there and cars not being a thing affordable by the working class. Nobody batted an eye back then. Today parents drive their kids to school for 1km. That's just wrong.
- chefkoch 9y ago> cars not being a thing affordable by the working class Are you shure you're not talking about the 50s but the 80s?
- walshemj 9y agoMaybe they are refering to the east
- eru 9y agoIn the East it wasn't about affordability in price, but about rationing. You had to wait 18 years for a new car at the end.
- marenkay 9y agoNo, I am referring to the 80s. There were a lot of families without cars there. Probably depends on where you lived but where I lived (500k inhabitants in the city) cars were only for the wealthier.
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