Is this generation too weak?

Ninetiesgrl13 · Jun 10, 2024 at 04:51 AM

I’m 41, and did a lot of playing outside til dark as a kid. Plus staying inside, watching movies, and playing games on the computer. So as a gen X/millenial(I still identify with X more) that found guys out in the world and online, I can say it’s about balance. This world is also much more chaotic and superficial and expensive than it used to be. There’s also more pills, more diagnoses, and less accountability. And that’s coming from a place of depression, and having grown up with a BP parent. Even though my generation was less supervised in general, I feel that now we are living in the most scary time.

Mountaindewed · Jun 10, 2024 at 11:30 AM

Also back then kids didn't go to the doctors for the smallest thing. I had a 104 degree fever one time in 2002 and my mom just dealt with it on her own. Now my nephews will get a small cold and my sister will take them to immediate care.

16PennyNail · Jun 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Ninetiesgrl13

I’m 41, and did a lot of playing outside til dark as a kid. Plus staying inside, watching movies, and playing games on the computer. So as a gen X/millenial(I still identify with X more) that found guys out in the world and online, I can say it’s about balance. This world is also much more chaotic and superficial and expensive than it used to be. There’s also more pills, more diagnoses, and less accountability. And that’s coming from a place of depression, and having grown up with a BP parent. Even though my generation was less supervised in general, I feel that now we are living in the most scary time.

It is a scary time. Those of us who were alive during the Cold War thought it was bad then. I believe it is worse now. My friend and I were talking about this. He was like what do you think America will do. I told him, what we always have, exactly what we must. The new generation is just green; they get some experience and wisdom, we don't have to make this place great again; we already are.

divine1966 · Jun 10, 2024 at 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Mountaindewed

Also back then kids didn't go to the doctors for the smallest thing. I had a 104 degree fever one time in 2002 and my mom just dealt with it on her own. Now my nephews will get a small cold and my sister will take them to immediate care.

I think people now know more about danger of certain things. 104 degree in young children is extremely dangerous. People used to think it’s no big deal but it could cause irreversible damage. So I don’t think people are more weak. I think people are more knowledgeable

Ninetiesgrl13 · Jun 10, 2024 at 02:43 PM

Yep it’s so different these days. My ex freaks out whenever our kid gets sick at all. And we’re still paying for an urgent care bill because of him taking her so much. I do worry for my 10 yr old and how different the world may be even 5 yrs from now. She said that she doesn’t want to learn how to drive, and I said that she has to. 😛

MuddyBoots · Jun 10, 2024 at 04:27 PM

Things just got traded. No more nuclear bomb drills or burning your hands and inhaling toxic fumes with toys, now it's school shooter drills, overdosing on fentanyl supposedly your first time smoking weed, and politicians actively trying to divide the country and spread hate moving towards starting WWIII.

Different. Not necessarily worse or better/weaker or stronger.

Blueberrybook · Jun 10, 2024 at 04:38 PM

Much of the above along with:

Memorizing phone numbers, or, if you didn't remember them, looking them up in a physical telelphone directory.
Using a payphone
Having physical textbooks for school and using brown paper grocery bags to cover them

Yep, I also ran thru the mosquito truck spray fog

I do have a pretty strong immune system...he-he...Never even caught Covid though both my husband and daughter ended up pretty miserable with it and coughed all over the place.

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