Born in 85 and I honestly miss just about everything about the 90’s. I’m assuming every generation has rose colored glasses about when they grew up, but I can’t think of a better time to have been a kid.
I was a latch-key kid and am so thankful to have been one. Both my parents worked and gave us a lot of leeway to make our own decisions. As long as we were home by the agreed times and checked in if our plans changed we could do what we wanted. Now I see that helicopter parenting has become the norm. Kids are overly scheduled, overly parented and overly glued to screens.
I couldn’t ask for more than being a kid when video games were entering the golden age, the internet wasn’t commercialized yet, and we could play outside all day if we wanted.
Up until 9/11 (junior year of high school for me) I also believed things were improving in the world. I don’t see how kids right now can think anything but the world is getting much worse. I feel sad for them not getting to be ignorant to the world’s problems like I was.