With the recent recession and fear of the future, millennials are in a state of reminiscence. They reflect on how they totally related to Lizzie and Raven — how they wouldn’t trade places with Courage if their life depended on it — how they were totally funny enough to be on “All That!”

When millennials turn on the television to try to fill their empty wallets with the happiness of their childhood, they turn on a completely different world. Gone are the little babies running around the town in diapers. Gone is the psychic with an identity crisis. Gone are the chicken and cow siblings.

Many of these ’90s kids, as they so dub themselves, complain about how television sucks now. This sentiment is that of a bitter adult whose refusal to grow up has blinded them from the truth.

There are some hard truths that ’90s kids will have to come to terms with.

Current children are in good hands!

Disney Jr. plays Disney classics for children every week. There is no waiting for movies to come out on VHS or going to your nearest Blockbuster and hoping that the kid down the street did not have the urge to see “The Colors of the Wind” too. Not only this, but Disney is incorporating more diversity in their cartoon programming. Doc McStuffins is a little African American girl who aspires to be just like her mom and become a doctor.

Children are still being taught to dream big.

TV Shows have grown up too!

There are cartoon shows geared towards us adults who are still kids at heart. The characters on Cartoon Network’s “Regular Show” are in their twenties. The show’s jokes are more for college students and not their 10-year-old cousins.

Besides new shows, many of the networks have spin offs of favorite childhood classics. Fans of Avatar, have “Legend of Korra” on Nickelodeon. “Boy Meets World” fans have “Girl Meets World.” Children’s networks are trying to expand their 15-and-under demographics to the 20-year-old flipping channels on a Saturday morning.

Now for the millennials born in the ’80s, this truth does not apply. But those born in the late ’90s are not true ’90s kids. At least not when it comes to television.

Nineties kids didn’t see most of the shows they remember until the 2000s. When Clarissa was explaining all, they were still trying to form real sentences. When Doug was wearing his underwear over his shorts, they were still being potty trained. When Urkel was holding his outfit together with suspenders, they were having temper tantrums in grocery stores.

Now there were some good shows in the ’90s and even better ones in the 2000s, but the ones today have a different challenge. Shows still address the struggles of growing up, but networks are beginning to focus on more relevant problems like diversity.