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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tend to think a fair amount of it is:

(a) Busy schedules.  My teens are/were much busier than my friends and I were in the 80s.  We didn't have travel sports, we weren't taking 5 APs our senior year, very few of us were doing SAT prep, we weren't leading clubs in high school, etc.

(b) Parental involvement.  I was a teen in the 80s and our parents didn't know where we were much of the time.  Now parents have their kids on Life 360 and to be blunt, they're up their kid's a**.  I see it in my own house -- when I was my DD's age (16), my weekend curfew was midnight.  I would be fine with that for her, but I had to struggle to get DH to accept just 10pm.  And he wants to know where she is, "have we heard from her?  Where are they now?  What time will they be home?"  She has commented to me that if often feels as if it's not even worth bothering to go out.

I think that parental involvement, safetyism, and making so many of our kids' decisions for them leads to them just not putting themselves out there.  Not taking risks, not being bold.  [/quote]

Wtf?!  I graduated from a Fairfax county HS and played travel soccer from 1980-1988 and traveled everywhere—-Canada, up ad down eastern seaboard. I was a class officer and involved in clubs, had many paid jobs, etc.

Travel soccer was a thing (even for girls)—-it was just very competitive to make the team as there were at most an A and B team so all the other kids did rec

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