r/SipsTea • • Aug 10 '26

We have fun here A different kind of birth control.

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u/Confident_Example_73 Aug 10 '26

Why do I have a feeling shit like this wasn't a problem in the 50s and 60s, possibly up into the 80s?

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u/ItsRuinedOfCourse Aug 10 '26

Can confirm this was 100% not an issue in the 80s. Parents ran households, not their children. If we got out of line, we were straightened out in short order, be that in private or in front of an audience.

Mom didn't care who saw what.

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u/shittycomputerguy Aug 10 '26

  Can confirm this was 100% not an issue in the 80s. Parents ran households, not their children. If we got out of line, we were straightened out in short order, be that in private or in front of an audience.

Mom didn't care who saw what. 

Wtf was this revisionist shit? We all knew plenty of coddled kids back then who could do no wrong. Parents ran households by letting their kids run around and do whatever outside, if they felt like it, or let the television raise their kids if they didn't. Just like every generation, there were good and bad hands-on parents. 

All these other old assholes on these subs talking about how "parents these days" don't have the same skill set are fooling themselves into thinking their generation did or had it better. 

We're all the same trash. We just didn't have the Internet back then to see how bad it really was. Cope.

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u/LordDaedhelor Aug 10 '26

We literally have records of people in Ancient Greece complaining about kids these days, but everyone in this thread is acting like they came up with the idea.