‘Twas a different world.
The only difference is women run families now and they are more cautious with the chillun. This is not a good thing.
Yes indeed. It was probably still dangerous but in a world filled with predators, you just never know.
Proportionally there is no higher difference in abduction by stranger
It’s just cable news beats it to death
I’m an olde parent ..,57
With kids 7.5 and 12 and 15
I mingle with parents 30 years younger than me at times
I live mid Dixie in Nashville metro where Yankee interlopers and others are around half of the professional class first from Michigan and now California and New York
And Southern born parents
In a county votes 75% GOP and around half of moms stay or work from home
Observations on younger parents:
A) biggest thing is moms especially if non southern run the house no question they are more demanding and dominant and as to be expected far more cautious with kids
B) they are more inserting and controlling into sports up to high school where they can’t anymore cause the coaches won’t put up with it
D) they live at the school. Lunching with kids several days a week and any given day there are 40 or more moms and a few dads parked all day in classes and activities
When I was in grade school in 60s parents came to plays and night games and once a year spaghetti night. That was it
E) kids are not much allowed to roam in the affluent city neighborhoods but do more so in the country hence the rise of play dates an activity in which young moms insufferably interfere constantly
F) they are exponentially more politically correct across the board and I have to watch my tongue. This is a big one
G) the wives drive a lot and the man sits in passenger seat bearded but emasculated
H) the moms hate or distrust guns. This is a higher incidence in non southern wives
I) they are less religious
J) the women have girls night out and the couples take more vacations with girlfriends or buddies and leave kids with others but often to Rain forest as they call Jungle ...destinations
K) they go to church less. I go about one third of Sunday’s myself so I’m no dinner cause I work a lot but younger folks just don’t go
I could see how urban life was gonna ruin my boys so we moved to acreage 30 miles out where it’s more the opposite even among the transplants
More rural parents tend to not be that much different than how we grew up aside from the wife and mom empowerment thing
Yeah, it was a different world growing up in the Midwest in that sweet time within a couple of decades after WWII. I used to take my toy fox terrier in my bike basket and go off birding in a local park near my high school. My mother never worried about me. I’d be home right on time, new adventures under my belt. There was a creek there, a pond, acres of woods. It was an Eden within a city.
Our street was one block long. Come 4th of July, people would block off the ends of the street and we’d all put our lawn chairs in the street and turn them toward the local drive-in movie theater to watch the fireworks they put on, free.
If anyone got any sort of “boo-boo”, any mother on that block would run out to mop you up and apply Mercurochrome and a bandaid. Or give you lunch or a drink on a hot day.
Those days are LONG GONE.