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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was born in 1975 and while I played outside with friends a lot, my parents absolutely played with me (and my siblings). Board games, dolls (mom), sports (dad).  My dad helped me with math homework. I don’t think my friends parents were appreciably different. [/quote]

Same here.  They might not have played with Barbies with me, but we definitely played board games and card games together, watched a movie together, taught me to cook and bake and work with power tools, played catch in the backyard, etc.  We were also expected to entertain ourselves a fair amount, which honestly, I think was a good thing.  It felt like a nice balance -- it was clear they enjoyed doing stuff with us, and there was a lot of affection, but we also had a reasonable amount of independence.  I was allowed to ride my bike a couple of miles to my grandmother's house or to the nearest convenience store by myself, for example, which seems like a thing that would get me referred to CPS today if I let my kid do it.   [/quote]

1960's 1970's kid here. We roamed on are bikes for miles.  We had to be home for lunch and dinner time but then we went outside again.  It would have been rare
for parents to play with us.  We did play Monopoly on rainy days with Dad and Mom took us to the library once a week.[/quote]

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