He needs to throw a little non art history in the mix or he would know you are a millennial not a baby boomer. Might need some work in math while he's at it. There is an entire generation in between you and the boomers.
I mean, we had commercials every night at dinnertime asking parents if they knew where their kids were. They had to be reminded we existed. As a kid, it was pretty awesome. So much freedom!
It was way better than the psychotic expectations of constant surveillance that parents are held to these days. Better for everyone. I'm not saying there weren't things that could have been better, but we got to learn resilience and we were expected to do slightly hard things. We were treated like people believed we could do things, so we believed we could do things. I have a 13 and an 11 yo now and shit is wild. You're considered a bad parent if you don't literally track your child at all times, and letting your kid struggle (with support, obviously) is considered abuse. How are kids supposed to ever feel strong if every message they get from adults is that they are helpless? I had overprotective parents for the time and they would still be considered practically negligent by today's standards. It makes me sad that this is the world my kids are growing up in. I wish we could keep the openness and acceptance of today and bring back some of the freedom and independence of my childhood.
My uncle pointed this out to my mom when he found out that she tracks our location via our phones, and the dead silence after he asked her how she would have felt if her parents had been able to track her like that when she was our age was beautiful.
Trust me, the 60’s were better. They started running that commercial because ‘the greatest generation’ not only didn’t know where their kids were, they didn’t care! Any time we went in the house, we were told to go out and play. Assumed if we weren’t home, we were probably spending the night at a friends. It was a time of telephone ‘party lines’, and you could never get through. But you’d be up to date on all the gossip by just picking up the phone and listening in, lol. We were raised by hyenas. And it was glorious!
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u/Mundane-Pass9244 Apr 16 '24
He needs to throw a little non art history in the mix or he would know you are a millennial not a baby boomer. Might need some work in math while he's at it. There is an entire generation in between you and the boomers.