This 90’s parental trend has returned and New York’s parents and parents are divided

Low jeans and Abercrombie and Fitch are not the only divisive trends in the 90’s that make a comeback.

Nostalgic parents are searching for day camps and enrichment programs for their children, typical of seasonal survival for many families in the city, in favor of the “wild children’s summers” reminiscent of Clinton’s administration.

Some parents want their children to enjoy rollers in the neighborhood and potato sessions of the sofa during the hours before the time on the screen was a matter of constant concern. Others see the summer of the 90’s of the free wheel so unrealistic at a time when the streets are more dangerous, digital distractions are less innocent and more addictive and many families have two working parents.

Eric Katzman, a 46 -year -old Brooklyn public relations professional, is trying to recover part of the 90’s spirit with his reason.

“We traveled, we went to the candy store, Fro-Yo’s place, but we always knew how to return home,” he said affectionately that he enjoyed as a child.

This year is the first where you will allow your children 12 and 9 to walk and bike at will, to “walk some, within reason.”

In a recent episode of his popular podcast “Not Gonna Lie”, Kylie Kelce said about the summer of the wild son.

“I love the idea,” the mother of four excited. “Currently, I will unleash my children in the backyard. If one of them ends up digging a rock.”

Caitlin Murray, a 43 -year -old Westchester mother and a popular content creator, is also a fan. She did not sign her two children, 9 and 11, for the camps and, on the other hand, allows them to come and go as they like, just as he grew up in Cape Cod.

It helps that there is limited home technology (without video games or tablets) and does not allow youtube.

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“They could look [regular] Theoretically, “said Murray, but the attractiveness of traditional television is limited.

Not everyone is on board the plan without plan.

Jessica Dowshen and her husband began writing the summer program for their 12 and 15 years old last fall. Includes a photography workshop for a month, a science school, a farm camp and a STEM tutorial that works with glass.

“If my children were left on their own devices for free wheels and doing everything they wanted throughout the summer, they would sit in their rooms and be on their computer or telephone or iPad Games,” said Dowshen, who works for the Department of Education and lives with his family in Flatbush, Brooklyn. “It’s so hard because your phone shines just calls them.”

The parents of UPPER West Side, Rebecca and Steven, who have a 5 and 7 -year -old boy, said that the wild summer is not realistic in Manhattan.

“It’s hard to let your children run outside,” said Rebecca.

He added that more and more hot summers do not help.

“It is so hot that children end up watching television or watching their tablet, not doing the 90’s, being out until it gets dark,” he said.

The family, who refused to share their last name for privacy reasons, spend a month this summer in Europe where children will attend a structured international language school.

“It is more than a similar experience to the suburb where they can only be outdoors,” Stephen said in the camp, saying that “it is not really expensive to go abroad for a month.”

Dr. Anna Levy-Warren, a Brooklyn psychologist who works with families, understands some parents’ desire to give their children the type of summers without technology and technology lovers, but defend the balance: a combination of structured activities and time to play freely.

Levy-Warren said it is “crucially important” to give children the opportunity to “be creative, socialize between age groups, bore and play games that come from their imagination and not the screen.”

But he acknowledges: “We live in a world that is very different from the summer of the 90’s,” in which today’s parents are more afraid or eager to teach children’s independence, largely because of the way social networks have shown all the bad and frightening things that could happen.

Children do not need their phone in the yard, Levy-Warren pointed out, but parents have become so accustomed to reaching their children at all times that it is a difficult custom to break.

Murray has great hopes in the un structured time of his children.

She said, “This is the summer that start to find out things.”