Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world erik111189 @lemmy.world 12 mo. ago

Anybody else raised way more by the internet than their own parents?

I'm a millennial with boomer parents, who are famous for their hands-off parenting approach. Just wondering.

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@erik111189
Geriatric Millennial reporting in: nope. My boomer parents are great, and had a fantastic mixture of hands off free roaming and hands on helping. The internet didn't really factor in until my late teens.
- I, too, have turned 40
- Same boat. I didn't really have good internet until I was in my teens anyway, living the 14.4kbps and 28.8kbps split between 3 brothers life.
Millennial def raised by the internet here. I used to be on the computer non-stop until my parents got home from work. Then I would weasel my way into more computer time after dinner too. All to work on my Angelfire hosted website that definitely never got any traffic.
I'm a millennial-ish. I had a single mom and she was all-in on parenting. Although I'm not sure which part(s) of parenting you're asking about specifically. Discipline? Instilling values?
Yea, I think the fediverse is on average too old for this to be true of the majority, though there’s plenty of younger people in here.
- Yeah, there was no Internet when I was a kid. I was raised by the television like all good Xennial kids
  
  I'm so excited....I'm so...scared...
  
  What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbor's dog?
  
  DENTAL PLAN...Lisa needs braces...
  
  I could keep going
Not me, I was a child before the Internet.
- Thats sounds philosophical.
  
  "I was a child before the Internet"
oh for sure. Of course, my parents were straight up negligent so it wasnt hard for the internet to win that competition.
i'm an older millennial/younger gen x and i was raised by books and some truly great, saintly teachers. teachers can make such a difference, yall
- I work retail and if I learn the customer is a teacher I go so above and beyond to make sure they don't pay for what they are getting(if it is for the classroom) and make sure they are very happy with the whole experience. Teachers change life's for the better and are not treated the way they need to be.
  
  That is so awesome. Amen.
- i'm an older millennial/younger gen x
  
  I think you either have this backwards, or might be Benjamin Button.
  
  No, this is correct. They were born between, let's say, 1978-1982. That would but them at the end of Gen X (making them a young X) or beginning of millennial (making then an older millennial)
I grew up the youngest of 5 children—with all siblings >10 years older—with immigrant parents who were mostly working. So, yea, at times it does feel like the internet raised me
Yup. Born in '84, parents were born in '50 and not really fit to be parents. Basically took care of myself from 11ish onwards and was raised almost entirely by TV and Internet from age 8 and 14 onwards lol.
The internet didn't really exist when I was growing up, but my own parents didn't really raise me, either. I did a lot of figuring out on my own.
"Zillenial" here and well, maybe? My parents let me use the internet with little-to-no moderation and growing up with very few friends, I would often frequent the internet. Back then, it was when the internet required dial-up so I would either be on the internet on Saturdays or stuck on my computer preparing materials to send to the internet.
- What's a Zillenial?
  
  Between Milennial and Gen Z. I was born in the mid-90s
Your boomer parents are famous for their hands-off approach? That's impressive in and of itself.
Nah, internet didn't exist then.

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