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[–] 43 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They were all looking at their phones.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I'm a school bus driver and my district bans the use of phones on the buses. I don't say a fucking thing about it. It keeps the kids occupied and out of doing worse things on the bus, and it's not like 15 minutes less screen time per day is going to make the slightest difference in their lives.

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  • [–] 59 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Gen x and millennials know they were absolute terrors as children. We don't want to deal with that shit so we're raising our kids to be better than we were.

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  • [+] 12 points 7 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    IDK about this. Today's extreme focus on helicopter parenting seems to view "having room to play" as CPS-worthy neglect. Shouldn't there be a middle ground?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I think I spent most of my non-school times at home lol.

    I was born in 2002

    When I was in China, we mostly just stayed locked at home because parents are at work all the time (beside going to school)

    When we move to the US, I was put in afterschool programs when I suffered what amounted to psychological torture (I mean I was basically in a foreign country and didn't even get time to "recharge my social battery"), and I never had the eslf esteem to really make friends with English-only kids for those the first few years of my life here.

    So that inertia just stayed... I just got used to not "going outaide" it just been how my life is...

    I mean sometimes I did outside... but I've almost always been acompanies by parents

    Not surprisintly never had much real friends, never made any deeper connections beyong just talking in school...

    Immigrant parenra really just either have no time or is terrified of CPS...

    So yea I have fear of the outside world basically...

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    A lot depends on where outside was too.

    I grew up partly in a city/burb then we moved to the woods.

    I actually played outside in the burbs because it had ode walls to ride bikes on and more kids near by. But playing out in the woods was more time outside, except in hunting city and after dark.

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  • [+] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    besides not being physically colocated

    This isn't neglect IMO. Kids should have at least some time separate from their parents (tbf, this means different things at different stages of childhood).

    The rest of your post, OTOH, is spot on.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    They're still shit. I bring my young kids to the park and around 430 the 12-15 year old kids roll in and are an absolute menace, like clockwork. Littering, cursing loudly, riding their bikes in between the play equipment.

    I think there's a certain age where shitheads will always be shitheads. They get this little taste of freedom that comes with adolescence and they go overboard. I think it is just a part of life.

    I try to say to my kids, hey, you don't like how they're acting now right? Then don't do it when you're their age. We will see if that works.

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    [–] 40 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Once on the highway a kid made a lil heart at me with his hands from a bus window and I flipped him off and he and his friends lost their minds. It was hilarious.

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    [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I flipped off the toll gate attendant once in 4th grade when we were coming back from some event. Another kid on the bus narc'ed on me and I got detention. Would do again.

    PS: I still flip off the automated toll readers. Fuck the system.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Lol my aunt used to have a job looking at those photos when people claimed this or that. She showed me some funny ones. That said I always do something obscene. Unlikely a human sees it anymore but if so I hope their day got a little better.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    All school buses these days have black out windows, like the one in the OP. Wild shit happened before the tint, like kids getting into literal fist fights when two buses stopped side by side at a red light.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    And kids in the back of the bus were always the wild rebels, "mooning" the cars behind them was not uncommon in the old days.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Right? I remember thinking "Why did Rosa Parks want to sit at the front? The back of the bus is where all the cool people are!"

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Because she was not allowed to. I mean yeah haha cool kids in the back 'n everything, but throwing in Rosa Parks is a little tasteless.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I mean put yourself in my perspective here, suburban white boy in elementary school.

    I don't think there was even one black kid in my own grade until high school.

    My only knowledge of prejudice being a bad thing came from an MLK poster in first grade, and my second grade teacher reproducing Jane Elliot's experiment in class (which in retrospect is kinda fucked up and traumatized me into being a good person, because I wasn't allowed near my best friend).

    Edit: thinking way back, my parents owned a triple-decker and we lived on the bottom floor and rented the other two. When I was maybe 5 or so the third floor tenant was a black family with a kid my age and we were best friends until they moved out the following year.

    My point is, as a kid, I had literally no idea what prejudice or racism was until someone told me.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I played lacrosse in middle school, and when we'd stop we'd try taking the caps from our Gatorades and rolling them on the windshield of cars next to us.

    I can't stand littering now, I do town cleanups, and maybe it's my way of trying to undo my stupidity.

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    [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Passed the sportsball team bus and no hams were pressed

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why would they even bother to flip you off? That just doesn't make sense

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  • [–] -5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    How in the world did you have energy as a kid to flip off anyone? I barely had energy to walk to the bus.

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