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

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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.

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I, too, have turned 40

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Yeah, there was no Internet when I was a kid. I was raised by the television like all good Xennial kids

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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

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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?

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oh for sure. Of course, my parents were straight up negligent so it wasnt hard for the internet to win that competition.

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