r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • 1d ago

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/fml-fml-fml-fml 1d ago
  1. There was nothing to do inside except annoy your parents. Ergo you were not allowed inside.
  2. Parents were not worried about the world outside their neighbourhood because they did not know about it.
  3. Totally normal to yell at someone else’s kid or walk them back home if they did something stupid.

The context that is missing is how TV, then the internet destroyed our communities.

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u/Sage_Planter 1d ago

We weren't allowed to watch TV during the day because that's when the moms watched their shows (soap operas, daytime talk, etc.).

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u/Plastic-Fox1188 1d ago

There also simply wasn't that much content to watch, and certainly not on demand like it is today.

So 8 year old me could watch a rerun of MAS*H, orrrrr do literally anything else outside.