time of "go outside and don't come back until dinnertime,". Many of them are wondering how they escaped death, lost limbs, arrest, jail time, etc. as a kid. Now they look at their child and think "Hmmmm". :) ** Edited by 89HOKIE at 9/5/2025, 7:35:34 AM

orientation for my daughter at UGA (yea we did something wrong) one of the mothers asked, “ who cleans the children’s’ rooms” We found that amazing but not surprising. Our kids cleaned their rooms at home and away at college. H/E my granddaughter pays her roommate $10 to make my granddaughter’s bed (jr at UNC). IDK what the he… has happened.

** Edited by KCHokie2 at 9/4/2025, 10:05:00 PM

Or are we just more aware...inundated daily...with every little bad thing that does happen (and even some things that are made up).

Our brains are wired to notice and process things that are more or less local to us. We are not well equipped to handle a 24x7 cycle of information about the entire freakin' world. It really is no suprise that so many people walk around thinking that Western Civilization is near to collapse, when that's what they are being fed constantly.

communicated wider and more quickly. But by the stats? Nope, it's not more dangerous. Considerably safer per almost all stats.

There was a bruhaha in East AJ my freshman year (1990) regarding a t-shirt one of the floors made that riled up a number of the ladies ("Don't wrap it..." IYKYK). All of EAJ had a MANDATORY meeting to discuss the "callous depiction of women" and "inviting rape". Died down after the meeting and they agreed to turn over the shirts. No parents were ever the wiser regarding the incident and everyone went on their merry way. Today, that would be top of the page news across all social media and my parents would have been calling about the protests outside the dorm before I even knew anything about it.

forty years ago. We just didn't have the constant barrage of negative information that we literally carry in our pocket then that we do now.

...that everything feels threatening by comparison. I try not to be overly protective of my daughter, but I will admit that the world feels like a very scary place to raise a child right now. I really wish my daughter could grow up in the same environment I did...life was just so much simpler back then. And I think in some way I am trying my best to artificially create that environment, but it requires a lot of work and filtering of the outside world. So I understand how annoying overprotective parents are and I try really hard not to become one myself, but I also recognize that most of those types of parents are coming from a genuine place. I think it's just easy to cross the line and go from being protective, yet allowing your child to safely learn independence, to overprotective and completely prohibiting independence.

40 years later, she divulged she had also made the same choice at about the same age. Not everyone was destined to breed, and some who ardently wish to cannot and that's a shame. Many more have had kids who never should have. I think TSO and I should join that FB group, and have some fun. Eh, what?

Some, at the very least. "Likelihood of occurrence" of any threat is a seemingly foreign concept. Not sure what is taught in math classes anymore