Talk to some older folks.
My dad describes walking to school with other schoolchildren in Montreal in the 1950s. They'd be alone, without adults, going miles.
When playing, they were out dusk to dawn on city streets with no adult supervision.
My dad describes walking to school with other schoolchildren in Montreal in the 1950s. They'd be alone, without adults, going miles.
When playing, they were out dusk to dawn on city streets with no adult supervision.
I would absolutely not prefer to be living in the 1950s than in the 2010s. Society has improved in many ways in the U.S., particularly if you are not a white male, even if perhaps children aren't allowed to wander as freely in large cities. Perhaps Canada is different.
But I get your point, the whole helicopter and intensive parenting should go. Though I do think it's caused somewhat by the excessive need to make children excel in a successively difficult and competitive society.
The question the post you were replying to posed was: is this actually a new phenomenon? Or is it simply good ole day syndrome?
I suspect it's more the latter.
Now I see daycare children on leashes in Montreal. Quite often. That didn't happen in the 1950s.
This isn't something' easy to quantify, unfortunately.
You don't have to talk to people that old, the mass retardation of parents is a relatively new thing.