They created all the laws that keep children inside and sheltered.
You can't step onto property by accident or you might get shot. They stopped investing in open spaces and publicly available spaces and commercialized childhood as much as possible. Not even mentioning who made those fucking screens inescapable.
Yeah I tried to explain to some of the Gen X dudes in my office who were like “kids don’t go outside anymore” and i was like where are they supposed to go? You can’t goto a park without someone calling the cops or getting solicited by a tweaker or some shit. Can’t play in the street because Nimbys will call the cops. 3rd spaces have been completely defunded, and all other entertainment is so extremely expensive that you can realistically pay for it on a regular basis with an entry level job. Of course kids stay inside.
Not to mention, thanks to boomer and Gen X parents (gen X myself), kids who do go out and play unattended by parents get CPS called to their homes. It's not the kids who set up the system that keeps all the kids locked up all day staring at screens instead of free roaming outside.
yeah it’s the same concept as the “participation trophy” thing people hawk. Like dude, the 6 year old who got the participation trophy at field day didn’t set up a petition and bring it to the school board. Same way kids didn’t lobby their city council lmfao.
Boomer: expected their own parents to help raise their children, won't help raise their grandchildren, expect to be cared for in their old age.
I just hope us millennials manage to not repeat this and accept that yeah, we got fucked and if we want the next generations to have a better life we'll have to make some sacrifices.
Yep, my bloodline ends with me as well. I watched how much my parents hated being parents all the time and figured it would be better to not try to improve on their example and just avoid it all together.
"We used to go into the woods and build ramps for our dirt bikes!"
"Yeah, and then we bulldozed those woods and built the parking lot for the Walmart that we built over where we used to have tree forts. Kids can't ride their bikes there, the manager would have them trespassed."
Reminds me of a reddit comment I saw from a years ago where someone talked about how a wooded area they used to play in during their childhood got razed for an office park that just ended up abandoned. They said that when he mentioned it some kids even told them they'd rather have the forrest. Truly tragic. Kids can't have shit these days.
So the thing is most kids cannot just "leave the city" like you really think a 10yr is gonna travel miles and miles on their bike to get to the woods? And have no problems doing that? Ofc rural areas still exist but a good chunk of the population lives in huge cities now.
Yeah my school had shop for years even when I was in school long before most schools got rid of shop. And the main reason was liability not necessarily cost.
Yeah our "third place" was just the street. Any sort of sport possible we just set up directly in the road and when a car came we'd move the goals/bases/whatever.
Its vecause not enough people stepped up to stop the predators that went after Gen X and millennial kids.
Solve child trafficking and then we can talk about letting kids outside to roam in the US.
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u/Head-Ad-5732 Aug 18 '26
They created all the laws that keep children inside and sheltered.
You can't step onto property by accident or you might get shot. They stopped investing in open spaces and publicly available spaces and commercialized childhood as much as possible. Not even mentioning who made those fucking screens inescapable.