Meanwhile, adults of all ages were doing their best to extend a welcoming sense of protection, mission, and collective purpose to America’s newest generation of children (Millennials) and thereby set them on a different course than the older Xer kids they were replacing. These early-1980s “babies on board” were now aging into grade-schoolers who traveled to carefully supervised “safe zones” in the morning and became Power Rangers and friends of Barney in the afternoon.
