No Such Thing as Helicopter Parents
These days, it seems like all any parent does is try to limit their kid’s freedom in more ways than one… We’re not saying that this is a bad thing because often, this kind of thing prevents bad situations from happening. However, in the 80s, parents let kids do whatever they wanted, and we all turned out fine…

The fact that this was the kind of infrastructure at the local park back then makes a lot of sense… Perhaps it was the lack of safety measures that we had as children that made Gen X parents more intense in their own parenting style. Who knows…