Agreed, all of this is overblown. Kids find fun things to do. That's what kids do; with or without "helicopter parents" and with or without technology. I'd bet

Agreed, all of this is overblown. Kids find fun things to do. That's what kids do; with or without "helicopter parents" and with or without technology. I'd bet most of these replies in this nature are written by child-less people giving their view of how things are so much worse now than when they were kids. They're still doing the same stuff they've always done (wasting time and having fun).