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RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes
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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8714346" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>This is pretty important. There have been a lot of legal changes too that contributed to this change in culture. There are plenty of cases of parents getting in trouble because their children were outside and unsupervised (which I can't imagine happening when I was kid: maybe it did and I was unaware but we were constantly outside away from home during the day). </p><p></p><p>My impression is my parents just raised us the way they were raised, and that we were one of the last generations to be raised that way. But I think people also have a false impression of what the 80s were like sometimes (especially stranger things which seems to base a lot of its knowledge on movies from the time). For example my parents were very strict about movies, toy guns, TV, etc. But as young as 7 or so I remember spending time on my own outside (possibly earlier, I don't really know, I just know my earliest memories are walking around town with my friends). We roamed outside during the day like most kids (and if I saw an R rated movie it was either because I saw it at a friends house----somehow I managed to see Deliverance this way----or it was an R rated science fiction movie my dad wanted to watch with me; in which case he would usually fast forward through certain parts. I didn't get a bike until later (when I was about 11 or I think). I also remember bike getting stolen ALL THE TIME. </p><p></p><p>Of course some of this roaming came at greater risk. I had a cousin who died in a bike accident and we knew another kid killed in this way. I got hit by a car myself, and we all had our share of accidents and spills. So I get why there may have been a shift when you combine that with changing laws and, it seems, more widespread daycare. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think a lot of this varied by geography, individual household, and other things. I still see kids riding around my city on bikes so it isn't like every parent hovers. </p><p></p><p>But I was born in the mid-70s and was raised as a lot of people here are describing. My sister was born a decade later and was pretty much a 90s kid and had an entirely different upbringing than me or my other sister did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8714346, member: 85555"] This is pretty important. There have been a lot of legal changes too that contributed to this change in culture. There are plenty of cases of parents getting in trouble because their children were outside and unsupervised (which I can't imagine happening when I was kid: maybe it did and I was unaware but we were constantly outside away from home during the day). My impression is my parents just raised us the way they were raised, and that we were one of the last generations to be raised that way. But I think people also have a false impression of what the 80s were like sometimes (especially stranger things which seems to base a lot of its knowledge on movies from the time). For example my parents were very strict about movies, toy guns, TV, etc. But as young as 7 or so I remember spending time on my own outside (possibly earlier, I don't really know, I just know my earliest memories are walking around town with my friends). We roamed outside during the day like most kids (and if I saw an R rated movie it was either because I saw it at a friends house----somehow I managed to see Deliverance this way----or it was an R rated science fiction movie my dad wanted to watch with me; in which case he would usually fast forward through certain parts. I didn't get a bike until later (when I was about 11 or I think). I also remember bike getting stolen ALL THE TIME. Of course some of this roaming came at greater risk. I had a cousin who died in a bike accident and we knew another kid killed in this way. I got hit by a car myself, and we all had our share of accidents and spills. So I get why there may have been a shift when you combine that with changing laws and, it seems, more widespread daycare. I think a lot of this varied by geography, individual household, and other things. I still see kids riding around my city on bikes so it isn't like every parent hovers. But I was born in the mid-70s and was raised as a lot of people here are describing. My sister was born a decade later and was pretty much a 90s kid and had an entirely different upbringing than me or my other sister did. [/QUOTE]
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