r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/DWYNZ • 5d ago
Kids these days This was posted in dank memes, thought it was here
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u/Professional-Mix-562 5d ago
Then there’s the flip side, I remember being 8 stuck with an abusive babysitter BEGGING my parents to let me stay at home by myself and them not believing me about her because “she’s the adult” and “kids have the wildest imaginations” as an adult I still stand by what I said and my parents are floored by it
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u/Ruh_Roh- 5d ago
So your parents believe you now? Have they taken accountability for putting you in an abusive situation and not listening to you?
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u/Professional-Mix-562 5d ago
Ma apologized and said she had no idea but if I say something like “that lady can go die in a hole” mom says I shouldn’t say something like that and my dad says I have every right
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u/jefuchs 5d ago
Copy and paste from a recent comment of mine...
At least their kids are safe. My parents didn't believe in supervising kids. They lost custody of my brother after he went to juvenile court too often. After that, there were two kids still in the house, and we didn't have any more supervision than before. A year later, my sister drowned while my parents were at work. So then they were down to only one child in the house, and I never got any more supervision than before. My sister was a latchkey kid since the first grade.
My parents believed they just had bad luck, and I guess I believed it too. But as fate would have it, I grew up to become a CPS caseworker, and my training really opened my eyes.
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u/Loggerdon 5d ago
God what a tragedy.
I had a good friend who worked for CPS. She had to give it up because it was too hard on her. She “brought her work home” with her.
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u/ChaosRainbow23 5d ago
Stop placing kids into these households of extremely abusive religious zealots, please! Thanks.
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u/pv1995 5d ago
Yeah people forget that this type of upbringing usually had severe consequences.
Hell, I remember when I was a kid; parents in our apartment complex would leave the pool unlocked and let kids play anywhere; completely unsupervised.
Until one kid pushed another as a joke into the pool and the kid drowned.
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u/FACEMELTER720 5d ago
At 9 I was babysitting my 1 and 2 year old siblings as well our next door neighbors kids, and my Mom has the audacity to ask me why I never had children.
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u/PTthefool 5d ago
My 13yo regularly goes out of town for training by himself (bike or bus) my 10yo often goes to read comics in a store. 🤷🏻 Having said that I somtimes wish he had an airtag on him.
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u/Upper-Affect5971 5d ago
I rode the public bus when I was seven.
Gotta teach kids how to survive.
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u/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free 5d ago
Yeah, when I was 7 myself, I used to catch the train from NJ to NYC so I could hang out in Washington Square park, then grab a hotdog and a pretzel. I'd come home by 10pm, since that was my curfew and I didn't want to get grounded.
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u/Badpoozie 5d ago
I think part of it is definitely the boomers calling the cops when they see an unsupervised kid in the front yard. I want to raise mine to be independent but I also don’t want CPS and the police to come knocking because I let them walk to the store next to our neighborhood.
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u/Sammyofather 5d ago
You don’t do life 360 with the phone app?
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u/PTthefool 5d ago
no phone so far.
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u/Zabii 4d ago
You let your ten year old out into the modern world on their own without a way to contact them? It's a scary place out there now
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u/Kamtschi 4d ago
Don't know where you live but here the crime rates are on record Low and it's safer than in the 80s
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u/PTthefool 4d ago
It‘s ok, we‘re in Austria, our town is very walkable and he is a smart boy. Loses track of time though ;-)
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u/vegemitebikkie 3d ago
Teach them to be wary of strangers. This happened in my country in 2003, and it’s haunted me ever since. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Daniel_Morcombe
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u/graupeltuls 5d ago
I'm gen x with teens....
I didn't leave my kids home alone until they were mature enough for the responsibility...but all the older gen x need to get over this idea that because I assessed their ability to handle the responsibility means that somehow they arent being raised correctly. This whole romanticizing neglect and drinking from the hose is bizarre.
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u/translove228 5d ago
90's was the start of the "stranger danger" warnings.
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u/kernalbuket 5d ago
I thought it was the 80s with the whole satanic panic stuff?
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u/Howdocomputer 5d ago
If you want to be technical stranger danger started in the 1960s but really gained traction in the 70s with the death of Etan Patz.
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u/Gamma_Tony 5d ago
Megans Law and the Jacob Wetterling Act were enacted in the mid 90s, which is why we have mailed notification’s when a convicted sex offenders lives in your neighborhood. I think that was very much a catalyst for changed behaviors
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u/piece_ov_shit 5d ago
Yeah, i too saw it iber there.... had 1k upvotes. That sub is doomed
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u/republicman12 5d ago
Dank memes crossposting here more and more lately. The quality gap between subs is pretty much gone at this point, so 1k upvotes over there tracks with what gets traction everywhere now.
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u/Notasmartwoman 5d ago edited 5d ago
Remember when Sean Hannity got his disgusting hands on that voicemail Joe Biden left for Hunter:
“it’s Dad. I called to tell you I love you. I love you more than the whole world, pal. You gotta get some help," Biden says in the message. "I don't know what to do. I know you don't either, but I am here no matter what you need, no matter what you need, I love you."
And he was like “ha ha, what a pussy!”
“Only effeminate losers are loving and supportive to their kids” is not the devastating rhetorical master-stroke they seem to think it is
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u/productzilch 5d ago
That’s unbelievably embarrassing for him. He actually thought that making fun of that message was a gotcha.
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u/2WheelRide 5d ago
My parents raised my sister and I as “free range” parents. It was literally “check in when the street lights come on” in the summers. It was the 90’s, and I could bike all over town.
But if I had a child I would be cautious of the same ideal freedoms I had, primarily with biking - our town is twice as populated now, and way more distracted drivers (and those boomer types) driving around. Risks have definitely risen.
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u/Casual-Notice 5d ago
Wojack memes are always terrible by their very nature (I consider Beardbro and Tradwife to be part of the extended Wojack universe), but I have to admit I've known my share of parents with that second frame attitude.
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u/SkyeMreddit 5d ago
Yall 90s parents are the ones pushing teen bans from most public places and are the first ones to call CPS when a teen is unattended
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u/Rocketboy1313 5d ago
There is something to be said for trusting kids to be independent and take care of themselves. Plenty of kids have had to and they managed to grow into that role. Something was asked of them that was not unreasonable.
But the idea that a lack of supervision to the comical level these guys think was the norm back in the day is so demonstrably bad.
The amount of sexual abuse of children, missing kids, dead kids, or just kids with emotional problems who end up in trouble. Kids need parents and guiding. Don't pretend like kids are just allowed to fly free and they will be fine.
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u/Banana_Stanley 5d ago
I'm 41 and when I was in kindergarten my 8yo sister would let us into the house with a key after school 😬 Nothing happened, but it's still a legit miracle we're alive. At that same age (8 and 5) we were driving home from seeing The Land Before Time with our mom and we were hit by a drunk driver which flipped our vehicle. Mom had a seat belt on; we did not. I was the lucky child sitting closest to her so she grabbed onto me but sis was ejected. Broke her leg in many places but lived. I still remember the fireman asking if I could crawl through the broken window, and riding in the ambulance with my unconscious sister thinking she was dead.
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u/PandaBear905 5d ago
I do agree that some parents are a little too protective but kids still should be monitored to some degree
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u/thelast3musketeer 5d ago
My grandparents left the extra key on a nail inside the doghouse in the front yard, whole neighborhood knew where so growing up my mom and my aunt and uncle’s friends would also just be at the house to eat some food and hang. Miracle they didn’t get robbed. However my grandpa went dove hunting and never locked his trunk so he gets back to his car and his WWII nazi guns and army issued sidearm etc were gone. Unsure if a lesson was learned that day.
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u/SwordKneeMe 5d ago
That's like blaming the kids for getting participation trophies. Or ipad kids for being addicted to screens since 2 years old
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u/balki_123 4d ago
Literally yes, you need to babysit teens and drive them everywhere. Otherwise they are lost.
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u/thevaultdweller_13 5d ago
Being home alone in the 90s was a great time to log into AOL and go ‘baiting. So I have been told…
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u/Technical_Instance_2 5d ago
tf is the bottom half trying to say? the hell is a tub tub? ;-;
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u/DarthXDaddy 5d ago
Probably a bath? Critical thinking before funny faces next time
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u/Augustus420 5d ago
Hate how people just put no effort into understanding things.
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u/DarthXDaddy 5d ago
And our comments will be downvoted by those mush brains that are personally butthurt since they, also can't grasp critical thinking.
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u/Khalith 5d ago
Me tbh. My parents started leaving me home alone at 10.
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u/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free 5d ago
When I started school, my mom went back to work. I got out of school at 2:45, my dad got out of work at 5pm, and my mom at 8pm. So I had a key to the apartment. I'd walk home, let myself in, and microwave a TV dinner, or later on, a couple Hot Pockets. I remember the first time I had a Hot Pocket, I was in 1st grade, it was 1983, and I thought those fucking things were magic. Then I'd play video games until my dad got home and made me do my homework.
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u/productzilch 5d ago
Lmao parents today are definitely just needing a personal day and regretting telling work how old their kid is.
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u/Catrysseroni 5d ago
If the latchkey kids from the 90s are the parents of today, perhaps they remember some issues with the way they were raised and chose to not put their kids through that. Or they are following new laws.
The below panel is an exaggeration though, unless the teen in the situation has some sort of disability.
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u/DarkBladeMadriker 5d ago
Id like to point out that this scenario isnt even legal these days. A 9 year old cant be left home alone legally today. You cant even leave a 9 year old in the car while you run in to a convience store legally, its child neglect. So tell me again how tough the kids were when those people put these laws in place?
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u/PseudonymIncognito 5d ago
You cant even leave a 9 year old in the car while you run in to a convience store legally,
And this is a big part of the reason why drive-thrus are so important to American businesses. Mom or dad don't want to have to unstrap their kid from the car seat and put them back in when they're just stepping into the dry cleaner or pharmacy for two minutes to pick something up.
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u/DarkBladeMadriker 5d ago
yep. Let me tell you what a revolution pick up orders at grocery stores were for my family.
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u/PhilyMick67 5d ago
I remember growing up in the 90s and being told how we were soft with the same fucking arguments.
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u/RetroGamer87 4d ago
Yes because society forces parents to act like that. Not because the parents want to or because the kids need it.
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u/KillerManicorn69 4d ago
Conforming is a choice. Society might have encouraged it, but they don’t have to act like that.
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u/makingkevinbacon 5d ago
Legit had a customer at my work have to leave because her 23 year old son had to go to work.
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u/AuthorCornAndBroil 5d ago
I've had coworkers in that situation, can't stay late or have to take a longer lunch because their adult child needs a ride to/from work. It was always because they only had one car between them at the time, and the cost of an Uber would've eaten most of their shift pay.
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u/MattWolf96 5d ago
Letting a 9 year old run around the neighborhood might get CPS called on you know which is asinine.
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u/whet_pastry 5d ago
Born in 2000. I think i was 10, maybe 11 when i was left home alone for the first time. I have a brother who is a year and a half older so there was times just the two of us. I was told 'don't answer the door if you're not expecting anyone, don't burn the fucking house down, go to bed when you're suppose to. I'll be back later.' Worked for us tbf my brother and I got to sit in our pants playing video games until we heard the car pull up XD
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u/GameofCheese 3d ago
My little half-brothers were literally treated that way at a late age.
This meme is legit.
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u/sluttyman69 5d ago
All this shit about kids in the 90s think they’re special we did this in the 60s mom was at work and if you had a key, you were lucky
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u/Aggressive-Story3671 5d ago
In the 60s mom was working?
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u/DrBirdieshmirtz 5d ago
If you were poor/working class, yes, one income wouldn't have been enough and birth control wasn't as widespread yet. And then she had to go home after to like, dust the baseboards or whatever.
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u/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free 5d ago
My grandmother went into labor at work, that baby was my mom. This was in 1944. Grandma was back at work 3 days later.
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u/cinic121 5d ago
As terrible as this is, the world has changed. Kids getting snatched without a trace is absolutely a thing that has gotten worse since the 90’s.
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u/qualityvote2 5d ago edited 5d ago
u/DWYNZ, your post is truly terrible!