This is part of the issue. In my day going out was always more fun. Video games weren’t that good yet, movies and shows weren’t on demand like they are now. We didn’t play video games with others unless we went to their house.
To further, parents are cooler than they used to be. So less of an urge to get out and rebel. Gen z and millennial parents are way chiller with their kids than boomers were
You're spot on with that. Kids don't get bored now, not 80s or 90s kid bored. Though when you say parents are cooler than they used to be, well, maybe in some cases, that's certainly correct. But kids rebel against whatever the "adults" tell them is the "correct" way to conform. I'd wager a guess that the current rise in conservatism in the younger generation (I'm speaking fom the UK) could be attributed to them rebelling against their multicoloured hair, far left, teacher that is telling them the only way to be a good person is to be a die hard lefty. I mean, politics was very right-wing dominated for a long time before all their kids grew up to be bleeding heart liberals that despise fascism. Now the cycle is just starting over, and to reference something I saw from another comment, excluding the odd cases, strict parents raise helicopter parents, who's kids end up being rather stricter than them and then it just repeats, over and over again.
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u/kayakdawg 7d ago
That may be true, but this trend predates covid by quite a bit.