24 is the new 18?

[MikeRafone]

Do you think young people take much longer to grow up?

I find people staying in education, helicopter parents, not letting children out alone until much older, keep teenagers much more infantile than previous generations

I did let both my dc out to playing the 90s and 00, expect them to get jobs at 16, expected them to pay rent, get themselves places on the bus from 11 years old, out cycling or walking g to school, out at the weekends and no tracking back then.

teens seem to be much more immature, lovely but not in the slightest grown up.

I remember starting work though and having the same, people telling me that at 18 they were married with their own home and not living with parents and grifting along!

Midlands, why?

This ⬆️ all the way
This whole thread is full judgement and stereotyping. The argument “back in my day this is how we did it” just doesn’t cut it. Society has changed, we’re much more aware of the dangers lurking out there thanks to news / social media (no way in hell would I allow my 7 year old to walk to school alone! The school don’t release them without an adult until year 6!), the cost of living crisis and inflation etc.. makes it very difficult for young people to leave the nest and buy their own home.

Yes, some ‘children’ are leaving home much later than they used to, but we don’t need a mumsnet thread bashing them for it. Christ

Where did you live?? As a 7 year old in the 80s I can’t think of a child who didn’t walk to and from school on their own where I am from!

In a pretty bog standard town. More to the point where did you grow up that parents felt it safe to let 7 year old wander to school on their own, crossing roads?