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10 Life Skills Of the 1970s Childhood Lost in Modern Parenting.

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10 Life Skills Of the 1970s Childhood Lost in Modern Parenting.

The children of the 1970s were free to roam and to acquire grit in the real world by trial and error which most helicopter parents of the present generation would skip. Instead, in those days, being instructed to come home before the streetlights come on implied hours of unmonitored adventure, lessons in self-reliance that were considered natural to Boomers. The contemporary children spend an average of 7 organized activities per week compared to the free play that was experienced by the kids in the 70s; creative time that is considered as a necessity today by psychologist who specialize in problems solving. Such skills that were lost produced strong adults who managed to survive without applications and twenty-four-hour supervision.

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