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I was born in the early 70s....at a time when everyone smoked and generally drank too much. We would ride in cars and people would smoke with the windows rolled up.....we rode in the back of flat bed pickup trucks....it was at a time where "working out" was alien and foreign concept.
The odd thing is we never perceived any of those things as being especially "dangerous", it was just how it was.
I was talking to my sister about this recently and I remarked that probably in 30 years our kids will be saying "....you can't believe it, our parents used to give use cell phones when we were 5 years old and let us stare at them for hours!"
I have no doubt that this is a phrase that they can say. How can you see it as something bad if your caregivers do it and are happy with it? I think that is why we do not notice it when we are children, that includes emotional abuse and spanking to make them "behave." When we are children our parents are heroes and even if they do something wrong we do not realize it until we are adults and have more knowledge about things, for children today being in front of a screen for hours is the "coolest" thing that exists.
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