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I think part of the problem is that a lot of generation X and millennial people grew up as latchkey kids[0], and are reacting against it by raising their kids l

I think part of the problem is that a lot of generation X and millennial people grew up as latchkey kids[0], and are reacting against it by raising their kids like veal: no unstructured play, no time without adult supervision, no time alone to think for one's self, and certainly no push to take on adult responsibilities until a kid's well into their twenties. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latchkey_kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latchkey_kid

stackedinserter 4y ago
> and are reacting against it by raising their kids like veal Why do you think they (we) are reacting against it? It's quite the opposite, we try to raise our kids the same way, but the whole system (school, daycares) is obsessed with safety. I was picking my sibling from daycare when I was ten, but try to make your children do that in 2022 – the daycare will call you (or CPS) immediately. I needed to reach the principal and sign a waiver to make my 1st grader walk alone from school across the road (protected by crossing guards).
- EddieDante 4y ago
  > Why do you think they (we) are reacting against it? The parents I talk to in my neighborhood and at the gym have gone all-in on the safetyism. Many of them have said they don't want to neglect their kids the way they were neglected. I've also talked to a couple of my neighbor's older kids (18+) and they say they feel suffocated. They can't believe I "got away with" reading Clive Barker when I was still a pre-teen; their parents relentlessly vet all kinds of media and only let their kids access "age-appropriate" material that isn't "triggering". Hell, I've even had one parent in the neighborhood turn on me after I lent her nineteen-year-old daughter a spare copy of Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. That mother should be grateful I haven't introduced her daughter to Jacqueline Carey or China Miéville.

stackedinserter 4y ago

> and are reacting against it by raising their kids like veal Why do you think they (we) are reacting against it? It's quite the opposite, we try to raise our kids the same way, but the whole system (school, daycares) is obsessed with safety. I was picking my sibling from daycare when I was ten, but try to make your children do that in 2022 – the daycare will call you (or CPS) immediately. I needed to reach the principal and sign a waiver to make my 1st grader walk alone from school across the road (protected by crossing guards).

EddieDante 4y ago
> Why do you think they (we) are reacting against it? The parents I talk to in my neighborhood and at the gym have gone all-in on the safetyism. Many of them have said they don't want to neglect their kids the way they were neglected. I've also talked to a couple of my neighbor's older kids (18+) and they say they feel suffocated. They can't believe I "got away with" reading Clive Barker when I was still a pre-teen; their parents relentlessly vet all kinds of media and only let their kids access "age-appropriate" material that isn't "triggering". Hell, I've even had one parent in the neighborhood turn on me after I lent her nineteen-year-old daughter a spare copy of Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. That mother should be grateful I haven't introduced her daughter to Jacqueline Carey or China Miéville.