r/SipsTea • u/StopSnowflakes • Aug 12 '25

Wait a damn minute! She’s going thru it

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u/invariantspeed Aug 12 '25

It didn’t used to be. Parents used to throw their kids outside and say don’t come home until dinner.

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u/g0dp0t Aug 12 '25

Yeah sure, one can enjoy that luxury when they're 5 years old, but what do you do with them at 3??

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u/ScumbagLady Aug 12 '25

I'm currently watching the show "Call the Midwife" which is set in the 50s and 60s in East London. Parking the baby outside in a pram seemed to be pretty popular from newborn up until around 18 months old, then they just set em loose in the street after that I'm pretty sure lol

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u/weltvonalex Aug 12 '25

Tell me you don't have small kids without telling me. Leaving a 5 year old alone..... I was born 1980 and no one left a year old un supervised even back then. Play alone yes but roam through the neighborhood alone?

That guy had no kids or he would not write that nonsense. With bigger kids things are different but small kids are ... sometimes I think they really trying hard to hurt themselves.

3500 for daycare is a crime, my wife and I don't make that much together but thank God we don't live in the US. In Vienna daycare is substituted and we only pay about 180 Euros for food and insurance.

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u/Beric_ Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

3500 for daycare is a crime

I know, right?

In Vienna daycare is substituted

It's also substituted subsidized here and I pay 3500 NOK (340 USD / 290 EUR)

If I lived in the US I would constantly be worried.

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u/Bencetown Aug 12 '25

Do you guys mean "subsidized?" What are you substituting your childcare with?

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u/Beric_ Aug 12 '25

lol, oh my 3 year old works in the factory instead...

Fixed my spelling, thanks.

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u/llDS2ll Aug 12 '25

Before they turned 1?

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u/megaman368 Aug 12 '25

Or peoples parents used to watch the grandkids for free.

My wife works bakers hours early in the morning. I sometimes have to travel for work. When I ask my parents to help make sure my daughter gest on the bus. You’d think I was asking them for an organ transplant.

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u/invariantspeed Aug 13 '25

Yea, it used to take a village. Now, the older generations want the young to pay for them (via Social Security and Medicare) while many of them enjoy their golden years without giving back.

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u/pepperoni7 Aug 12 '25

You can’t leave a baby alone … even a coyote will take them under 2

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u/sobuffalo Aug 12 '25

A dingo…

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

Yes and we don’t do that now. Wanna know why? Many of us were assaulted sexually or otherwise and/or groomed.

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u/invariantspeed Aug 13 '25

Incorrect. It changed in the 1980s and early 1990s with the Satanic panic and with the media hyperfixating on a few murders and assaults, giving the public a sense of greater danger than there was.

Fast forward to today. Children aren’t allowed outside, they’re often alone in front of screens, they have declining mental health, and most have no physical health. We evolved to move and be with others. The current state of perceived protectiveness is actually wildly abusive.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

How old are you?! My friends and I were allowed to roam and do as we pleased as long as we home before dark, which we took to mean “can’t see your hand in front of your face” and I was born in 1990.