Hundreds of people are stuck at home with kids who are absolutely over spending time with each other. Are your kids fighting? Don’t know what to do about it? Here is a thought – why do you have to do anything at all?The reasoning behind my thought is simple. Xers were the original latchkey kids, and our “rivalry” was epic. Nothing your kids are going to do to each other under supervision is ever going to compare to what we did to each other sans-parentals.
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Scraped Knees and Near Death Experiences
Anyone who grew up during the 70s-80s had a full-on childhood. There were no adults helicoptering our every move. We were hardcore survivalists. I imagine our guardian angels to be all hard and jaded. The poor newbie guardian angel does not get praised after guiding a 10 year- old down a softened plastic slide, and straight back to his mother who is waiting a few feet away. The newbie angel is met with:
General Musings of a Gen Xer 