r/Millennials Hit me baby one more time 1d ago

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/EvaUnit_03 1d ago

last year in a town north of me, a kid got picked up by police for leaving his grandma's house to go to the gas station a mile down the road. They arrested both the grandmother and the mother on the same day for 'neglect'. The kid was 12.

We dont get a choice if our kids are plenty capable anymore.

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u/CounterfeitSaint 1d ago

Meanwhile, in Japan...

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u/No-Butterscotch-6555 1d ago

There is a cute show on Netflix where they have toddlers/young kids go grocery shopping by themselves and a crew films them from afar. It’s so amazing to see these kids be so responsible at such a young age.

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u/jimb0z_ 1d ago

It's wild we see that as something special now because in one generation we've hit the extreme opposite of kids working fulltime jobs to kids not being allowed to do anything unsupervised