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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Millennial parents have received the message that they need to be actively parenting their kid always to be seen as a good parent and if they let their kid play and go sit on their phone on the bench someone is going to think they’re a lazy mom. There’s been an overcorrection of how much we are expected to be engaged with our kids always in reaction to lazy latchkey parenting we got. Of course both are problematic in their own ways. So it goes. [/quote]

So much baked in misogyny. I was a latchkey kid because my mother worked full-time, and we lived in a community where kids free-ranged, and there were enough neighbor mothers who didn't work outside the home who kept an eye out as the kids roamed the neighborhood. I agree that millennial mothers might also be getting misogynistic messages that they have to be outwardly actively parenting to be seen as good mothers, but this kind of swoop-in parenting is pretty damaging for kids -they never learn to self-soothe or to be independent beings. Parents need to sublimate their own egos and control their own anxieties - let the kids figure out how to entertain themselves or interact with others without parental interventions. [/quote]

As I said, both are problematic in their own ways. Each generation reacts to the way they were parented and does it different, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it doesn’t come with its own negatives as well. [/quote]

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