“That ‘stranger danger’ paranoia came from the suburbs, parents in perfect neighborhoods terrified that child-trafficking rings would steal their kid if they let them out of their sight for ten seconds. I would say, ‘Imagine what that does to a child growing up?’ but I don’t have to imagine, between the two of us, we have like six amber bottles of brain meds and zero coping skills. Now those same boomers are like, ‘Why don’t you go outside? Why are you looking at your screens all the time?’ These are the same people who started this trend of never letting kids go out on their own because their
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