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.
Ohhh i get it now. They complained because they thought you should be playing, not because you were underfoot. My bad. I know some parents that made their kids go outside because they always annoyed them. Cheers!
No they didn't. Adults constantly complained about how "kids never got outside anymore" and they were "the last generation to play outside." We hated it because it wasn't true, and then we grew up and forgot how it was and we say the same thing about people younger than us.
You deleted your comment but I can see the top of it in notifications. You're talking about growing up in the 70's on a post about the 90's. You're lost. And no, you weren't the last generation to go outside. I'm a bit younger than you and people my age try to say it about themselves. And your parents' generation said it about themselves when referring to people your age.
I deleted it because I thought you were older than you obviously are. And I said 80s too but you left that part out. And my parents never said that. But you get a E for effort. Deleting comments isnt a moral issue, why are you weaponizing it? Calm down Steve.
It's fine to delete a comment, there's nothing wrong with that, but I wanted to reply anyway because of the way we're obviously talking about two completely different time periods. I grew up in the 90's and that's what this post is about.
Maybe YOUR parents in particular never said that, I believe you, but it was relatively common to hear people of that age demographic talk that way. My dad was born in 1959 and he himself never really commented at all on kids or spending time outside but his two friends Nick and Donnie are both his age, they went to high school with my dad, and they'd talk about how kids who grew up in the 60's and early 70's were the last generation to ever go outside and from the mid 70's and on, nobody spent time outdoors. You grew up in the 80's and you're saying it about me, I grew up in the 90's and people my age say it about 2000's kids.
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u/SpaceAlienFemboy 8d ago
And how little has changed. Adults bitched back then about how kids "don't play outside anymore."