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JCM9 ◴[] No.45661908[source]
A lot of science supports the idea that helicopter hyper-parenting is hurting kids by having them grow up in an environment that’s too sterile. Let your kids go outside and roll around in the mud a bit. God forbid they lick the floor. Science says it’s good for them!
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eweise ◴[] No.45662043[source]
Can't remember a single kid with a peanut allergy growing up in the 70s.
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guestbest ◴[] No.45662302[source]
They probably weren’t allowed around you if you were eating peanut butter. Did you eat a lot of peanut butter growing up?
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1. kakacik ◴[] No.45662584[source]
I grew up in communist bloc, finely oppressed by russians with their military bases all around, ready for nuclear WWIII that never came.

Peanut butter isn't something I ever saw before being adult and well into 90s, it simply wasn't a thing, I guess evil capitalist invention with the only goal to subvert our fine communistic paradise, like ie Star wars movies. Raw peanuts were frequent though, I guess one of very few things that actually made it through very badly functioning central planning and wasnt stolen by aparatchicks and collaborants for themselves. Never ever met a single kid having any sort of peanut allergy during growing up, never knew its a thing. I recall one or two with asthma, hay fever and thats it. But same could be said about any form of mental diseases/issues for whatever reason, anxiety, adhd variants and so on... either ignored, undiagnosed or really on much lower levels, dont know.

Kid misbehaving? A fine smack or some other physical punishment settled things at least in primary school. Then things started to change a bit till they overcorrected these days.

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2. eru ◴[] No.45665310[source]
The 'Zappelphilip' (fidgeting Philip) stereotype is pretty old in at least Germany. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter

So stuff like ADHD symptoms were definitely not unheard of.