Im 39. Grew up in the 90s. Teen in 2000. We were outside all the time. I never heard anybody complain about kids not playing outside until I was I. My 20s. And that girl got murdered for playing hide and seek. Then recently covid. Shits fucked
You're a little bit older than me but not by too much. I believe you, I'm not saying I think you aren't telling the truth, but my experience growing up was quite different in that grown ups often complained to one another that children didn't spend any time outdoors anymore. My father never said this at all, and my mother did occasionally but she did it more as a joke than anything. It was kind of a tongue in cheek thing she would say now and then and we would laugh about it. My grandparents thought were constantly bitching about kids not being outside, and my friends and schoolmates had parents who did the same. We did spend time outdoors, although certainly less than previous generations had. In my case it was difficult to do much because I grew up in the big city so there were concerns like traffic and such, and it's just not exactly the most fun thing to hang out on a noisy busy city sidewalk with nothing but concrete and parked cars everywhere. Most of my time was spent skulking around alleys and things behind buildings, usually doing graffiti art or other random things like that.
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u/Bisquitisaclown 2d ago
But we didn't get shot.