Yeah it's easy for younger people to forget that those that grew up the 70s/80s/90s were largely unsupervised most of the day once they got to grade school. Alm

Yeah it's easy for younger people to forget that those that grew up the 70s/80s/90s were largely unsupervised most of the day once they got to grade school. Almost all kids I knew had no child care by grade 2. I was in a after school program until grade 3 and was teased how I was still a baby. I would be miles away from home doing whatever and nobody would know. Now parents freak out if their kids leave their sight for more than a few seconds. One thing that is really interesting is that many of the "free range" children don't follow that same parenting technique even though things are as safe or safer than when I was a child. I think this is mostly from the media putting fear into them that their children are going to be abducted. I really feel for kids now in the US. How they grow up I would not really consider a childhood. It's just preparation to sit in an office all day until they die of old age.