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[–] 52 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Boomers invented participation trophies.

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  • [–] 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (19 children)

    Yeah, they're called "Generation X" and were treated more as trophies than part of the family by their boomer parents. They used to have to run commercials on TV to remind boomers that they actually had kids who were still running around outside, trying to fend for themselves.

    Gen X raised themselves.

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  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago (14 children)

    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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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    My parents did that to me as well until one day when I was like 6. I kept trying to get inside to cool off and my mom kept telling me it was too nice out to be indoors until eventually I threw up and passed out.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Don't worry, europe has the same problem but with fatbikes.

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    I haven't seen them cutting anyone off, mostly playing on the sides of 2 lane roads with traffic or on 3 lane median roads during low traffic.

    Did see a group of kids on the e-mopeds in China doing wheelies, I have no idea how you wheelie a bike without a clutch, and some kids flying up hiking trails like it was nothing in vn. It's kinda shocking how skilled some of them are.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I'm american lol no the fuck you don't see 6 year olds taking public transit by themselves. My nephew's school won't even let 11 year olds walk home by themselves.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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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    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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    Boomers weren't called the 'Me Generation' for nothing.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

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

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