This article challenges the romanticized notion of 80s and 90s childhoods as being completely free and unsupervised. The author argues that this view is a myth and that many children during that time had strict rules and limited independence.
It might be tempting to wax lyrical about the 'good old days' but perhaps they're not all they were cracked up to be. One of the enduring themes of the past decade is that the current crop of parents, from Gen X to millennials, are completely wet, constantly hovering over our kids, or we are “snow plough” parents, endlessly smoothing the path for our children so that they never encounter any obstacles or hardships.
Our children don’t go out to play, they have no independence, and can’t do anything for themselves. They are weak and unprepared for life. And it’s apparently our fault. Some of these grenades are lobbed at us by that bogeyman demographic: the boomer. But the truth is that we lob some at ourselves, too. Gen X parents love to compare 80s childhoods with those of the current Gen Z and Gen Alpha.didn’t know where we were for hours on end when we played out. In the mornings we were told to scram and “don’t come back till it’s dark”. Young people, on the other hand, just cower in their bedrooms and worship TikTok. But I think this is a full scale re-writing of history; a myth. And it needs serious interrogation. The idea that in the 80s and 90s all children roamed about with the freedom of the Famous Five is rose-tinted and ridiculous. As it happens I did have a lot of freedom as a child. I am one of four sisters and we lived in a safe area. My mother is not controlling or a nag so we were left to our own devices.But I clearly remember that as a family, we were pretty unique. Our streets were not teeming with kids on their bikes or gangs of under-10s tumbling about. We all spent many hours, inside, alone, watching random crap on TV. I had lots of friends who were not allowed out unless there was adult supervision, or on certain nights of the week, or after a certain hour. We used to callstrict. But “strict” has, in the intervening 30 years, been re-branded “neurotic”. And I’m not sure this is fai
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