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I caused helicopter parenting? Even if you were saying it was some other group, this would be intensely stupid.

It actually does take a village: elders who within reason look out for kids as they grow and have more freedom/responsibility; and younger kids who bigger kids with a crossing guard badge and start to take responsibility for. Kids who live that way are better able to grow into individuals with agency than kids with a helicopter parent.

"Something bad happened in the Ninties"
Yes you and the rest of the liberals elected the Clinton Crime Cartel. Now you can see the effect of it takes a village to raise a child. What a bunch of BS.

I think it's shoehorning to make this about left/right bickering. There has been a phenomenal shift since I was a kid. My kids riding their bike to the same park in Madison I rode to at their age is now seen as controversial. It seems like all the way through high-school, kids are now used to someone monitoring them and telling them where to go. They don't resent it. When they get even the most basic freedom to walk down the road and decide what to do, some of them feel the need for emotional support animals.

I swore I would not grow old and say "kids these days...", but I really think something bad happened in the 90s, right after I had grown up. If I had grown up 10 years later, I would not have ridden my bike to the park, to school, or learned to use the bus system.

Parents trying to ween their kids away from being dependent on safe spaces and take on some individual responsibly is going to enrage leftists.
Good!