04-21-2020, 05:55 PM
(04-21-2020, 04:57 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-21-2020, 08:56 AM)Camz Wrote: To be honest, while I'm excited for what amazing culture and change comes in the 2T, I'm also pretty terrified of becoming a neglecting parent. When I read what T4T says about Gen X I feel really depressed for them. Their parents just letting them roam free sounds lonely and empty, almost like they didn't care about them at all. On top of that is divorce, which I can't imagine going through as a kid. On top of that, the media portrayed them as terrible kids. It almost sounds like society hated young X'ers. Massive respect for you guys for surviving a childhood like that. And to think I might raise kids with that same childhood...
Your kids won't be Reactives unless you wait to have kids until you are over 40 at least. Most likely your kids will be Idealists.
Quote:Of course, I say this as a Homelander/Quarantiner who feels like helicopter parenting perfectly fine and normal. I'm sure you guys wish to turn back time and fight the neighbors' kids with sticks or whatever. Was your childhood actually like this? Have advice for raising the Neo-Nomads? What will the 2T be like for us anyway?
I did not view fighting other kids as a plus, though I did get in some fights, a decade before latchkey kids. I think that was just viewed as acceptable and normal for kids by the GI generation that was in WWII and figured the kids would grow up to be fighting with guns.
I think we should keep in mind that the generational cycle is less repetition than rhyming. What will be viewed as normal childhood play for your kids will depend on what form the imminent crisis war takes.
I do plan on having Idealist children, but I also plan on having least one Reactive. Maybe the new Reactives will have it better than Xers, but the emptiness, danger, and lack of closeness with parents may stay the same. I wonder what other things would rhyme.