What's annoying is that as someone who did have a rather free-range childhood, people don't get that there actually were good reasons for people to be helicopter. You let the kids go off and play with others for hours alone, right; but then you find out later that while they did, an older teen was molesting them, or introducing them to porn. You let your kids play and roughhouse, cool; but back then you'd often have your kid chip a tooth or bust their collarbone, or they'd be blacking each others eyes or fighting after school. You'd give them the freedom to be alone, and then they'd be in front of you with the cops by them, because they were throwing rocks at windows.
People need to stop knee-jerk reacting to things and understand trends often happen in context to previous happenings. The helicopter movement arose after we realized in the 70s and 80s that free-range childhood often led to some really dangerous things happening to kids, that unsupervised time actually helped cover up things like sexual abuse or violence. It isn't just millenials being millenial or something.
People need to stop knee-jerk reacting to things and understand trends often happen in context to previous happenings. The helicopter movement arose after we realized in the 70s and 80s that free-range childhood often led to some really dangerous things happening to kids, that unsupervised time actually helped cover up things like sexual abuse or violence. It isn't just millenials being millenial or something.