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I'm right between gen x and millennial. My parents never spanked or yelled. Discipline, when required, was a conversation. As a teenager, I wouldn't have wante
by zdragnar 3y ago
I'm right between gen x and millennial. My parents never spanked or yelled. Discipline, when required, was a conversation.
As a teenager, I wouldn't have wanted to be tracked, except when I went on long (20+ mile) bike rides through the countryside, and that would only have been because I went alone. On trips to town or spending time with friends, that would have felt like a millstone.
There's definitely more to it than parenting style.
- pixl97 3y agoRight around the same age, maybe a year or two older. Your parents most likely watched the news at 6 and 10, it wasn't long after this news became a 24 hour thing for almost everyone. Then a personal thing as you were getting news on a device on your body at all hours. Toss in a little 9/11 of America getting attacked, and between the two we've created a culture that is a lot more afraid.
- zdragnar 3y agoThat was pretty much my point- parenting style isn't enough to explain the difference. Then again, I grew up in Wisconsin, which had to go through all the coverage of Jeffery Dahmer. Stranger Danger was a very real thing for a lot of people.