We also don't talk about 'all those other things' that went along with freedoms. I used to buy my father cigarettes as a kid in a small town where they knew who

We also don't talk about 'all those other things' that went along with freedoms. I used to buy my father cigarettes as a kid in a small town where they knew who I was buying for. We used to have 7 kids in the back of a pickup truck on the back roads. We didn't wear helmets for anything, though adults did 'mostly' on motorcycles. We'd climb way, way up high in barns and jump down into hey stacks with god knows what kind of nails and chains floating around. We ran go-karts down treacherous hills. Adults didn't usually wear life vests on the lake and definitely had beers out fishing. And I'm not that old. So it's not quite just 'helicoptor' parenting ... kids used to die at higher rates from all sorts of things though I think largely disease, but I think this made us more risk tolerant. Have a gander at this [1]. When your parents were born, infant mortality was 'pretty bad'. When your grandparents were born ... it's traumatic. Furtherback it looks almost unthinkable. Just look at what the lived trauma in that chart must represent. Basically - everyone had young children die on them. Imagine that being 'normal'. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041751/canada-all-time-child-mortality-rate/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041751/canada-all-time-...