Gen X does not appreciate how good we actually had it as children. amirite?

I think there's a healthy balance to be found, and a lot of parents missed the mark by being abusive or neglectful. But there's definitely an argument to be mad for teaching your kids to fend for themselves.

by Anxious-Standard-926 4 hours ago

I am literally not saying that at all.

by Anonymous 4 hours ago

We now know we can teach independence without emotional neglect. And, yeah, I agree our emotions cannot and should not be expected to run the world around us, even struggling with my own mental health at times. I'm just saying that sure, a free childhood can be fun but let's not idolise old times and try to see them as they were. I only hope our kids turn up better, because the way things are going, they'll need to.

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

I'm not sure that I agree that sending your kids out to play in the neighborhood or in the woods is the same as putting a screen in front of them. The main difference I think is that we didn't have the safety net of technology and I believe that that helped us develop the safety net of community.

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

It's also very unreasonable to expect parents to just sit and be active doing stuff with their kids most the day

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

I don't mean for them to be doing that all day every day. Sorry if it came across like that. My point was more of that none of these people had any idea where their kids where or what they were doing

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

No it wasn't. That's absurd. They didn't 'ditch' us. Clearly not having experienced it you will never understand it.

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

Why does Gen X think they were they only kids that went outside all day/ got left at home while their parents were at work lol. Millennials and Gen Z do this too

by santino81 2 hours ago

Millennials are 40 years old, my phone had Snake on it not Life360

by Mariakrajcik 2 hours ago

Millennial here. I left the house and didn't come back until I felt like it. No cell phone. My parents didn't know where the hell I was until I came home. I live in a big city and I was all over the place. I get where you're coming from, but Gen X was not the last generation to get to experience this.

by One-Set3268 2 hours ago

I have never heard anyone complain about any of those things, if anything people of that generation complain that we don't do that anymore.

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

I often see Gen X influencers couching their argument as something like, "you think you had it so bad? Us Gen Xers had to…" Fill in the blank. It's like some weird one upmanship of whose childhood was harder.

by Anonymous 1 hour ago

Honestly people with this exact same mindset are the people I avoid like the plague.

by Anonymous 1 hour ago

Why?

by Anonymous 55 minutes ago

Because it sounds very invalidating. If I read it wrong then I apologize.

by Anonymous 44 minutes ago

I am genuinely interested in this conversation, and I want to be clear that I'm not picking on you. What part of my statement was invalidating to you?

by Anonymous 16 minutes ago