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    What ’80s Parents Got Awesomely Right

    October 24, 2020
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    You’ve probably seen those Facebook memes, “We survived the ___s!” Fill in any decade: whoever survived it is proud. But ’80s kids did survive something many kids are no longer faced with. That may have been the last era when it was truly taboo for children to interrupt grownups talking.

    This and other well-aged parenting rules and norms can be found over at Let Grow, in “What the ’80s Got Right About Parenting,” by Shawnta Smith Sayner. And she is. Sayner, that is. Sayner than most.

    Click here to read her piece!

    Photo by Eric Nopanen on Unsplash

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