Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoI grew up in the 1990s and the thing nobody warned me about is that the resilience my generation was praised for was just the absence of anyone asking how we were - and the adults who admire us now for being "low maintenance" don't realize they're describing the exact training that made it almost impossible for us to ask for help in our thirties. - Silicon Canals
Unsupervised childhood time framed as self-sufficiency later appears as low maintenance, masking adult consequences of isolation and lack of support.