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Jun 13, 2024 · For a brief period in the 1980s, the latchkey kids who rode bicycles without helmets and never got a trophy just for participating mattered to marketers.
Jun 14, 2024 · Latchkey kids of the 80s would grow up saying they were “raised by television.” (They would also make a very big deal out of not wearing bike helmets and drinking from the hose, so let’s not pay them much mind.)
4 days ago · Consequently, many Gen Xers were latchkey kids, returning from school to an empty home while their parents were still away at work. Gen Xers were the first generation to grow up with personal computers to some extent, thus becoming tech savvy.
- Generation X, or Gen X, is a term typically used to describe the generation of Americans born between 1965 and 1980, although some sources use slig...
- Generation X is known as the “middle child” generation because of its small size in comparison with the baby boomer and millennial generations. Gen...
- The term Generation X was popularized by Douglas Coupland in an article for Vancouver Magazine in 1987. He later said that he had adopted the term...
Jun 24, 2024 · Kids that went home and watched TV, their parents are at work. They’re feeding themselves, popping Swansons or frozen pizzas in the oven, or eating Hot Pockets and watching Chuy while doing ...
5 days ago · As the first generation of latch-key kids, Generation X watched a lot of television growing up. From family sitcoms to action dramas to sci-fi soap operas, Gen X is still thinking about the ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Chuy Gomez: The Bay Area’s Radio Legend Who Raised a Generation of Latchkey Kids. Blanche Mora June 25, 2024. In an era where local radio has dwindled, Chuy Gomez stands as a beacon of continuity and community connection in the Bay Area.
Jun 21, 2024 · Yes, it’s a movie about five latchkey kids who are largely left to their own devices by their parents.*** But they aren’t growing up in the American suburbs—they’re growing up on a U.S military base in South Korea at the tail end of the Cold War.
