Generation X, made up of those born between 1965 and 1980, has many claims-to-fame in their younger years game. Gen X brought the world Prince and Kurt Cobain. We were The Goonies and The Breakfast Club. We took down the Berlin Wall while watching MTV.

But perhaps the most iconic thing about Gen X is our semi-feral childhoods of benign neglect. The standards of parenting and child rearing have shifted a lot in the past 40 to 50 years, as has the technological landscape that kids grow up in, so naturally, today’s kids won’t have the same childhoods previous generations had. But there’s something particularly nostalgic about being a child of the 80s for those who lived it.

So let me ask you Gen X… Would you want your kid being raised as Gen X was? Latch key. No notifications. No trackers to where your kids are? A tv commercial reminding you that you have kids and where TF are they?I LOVED and SURVIVED my childhood. Where do you stand? https://t.co/Vq5spSbOmf— Silver (@SilversMemez) April 2, 2025

So let me ask you Gen X… Would you want your kid being raised as Gen X was? Latch key. No notifications. No trackers to where your kids are? A tv commercial reminding you that you have kids and where TF are they?I LOVED and SURVIVED my childhood. Where do you stand? https://t.co/Vq5spSbOmf— Silver........

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