I do wonder what they think will happen when that child goes off to college and experiences the unfiltered world they were shielded from for 18+ years.

I certainly give my 3 year old son as long a leash as possible. My mother-in-law was flipping out because we let him walk up to the counter at a fast food joint and ask for something like an extra sauce by himself (it’s not like we don’t know one of the girls behind the counter anyhow).

I can tell you that it’s actually quite a lot of fun for those of us who weren’t raised like perpetual children. From dating to pranks, those gullible kids are the mostest funnest...

^^THIS
And people wonder why we have the horrific violence we have when someone loses it, why depression is so much higher. I think it has a ton to do with our ‘participation ribbon’ mentality instead of allowing true competition and failure. “Kids” don’t know how to react to a real world where you can fail when you’ve…

As someone who works in a college and lives in a town that has 50,000+ students descend on it for 8 months a year, it goes very badly. They have zero idea how to be self sufficient and they have a false sense of security/hugely gullible.

Im not in the business of telling people how they should and should not raise the miniature versions of themselves.. However I do wonder what they think will happen when that child goes off to college and experiences the unfiltered world they were shielded from for 18+ years.

Exactly!! The world has definitely changed since I was a kid and that wasn’t even long ago. My parents would be locked up for life nowadays.