SAS - I mostly agree with what you've wrote. My childhood was very similar. And I think there is a danger in making things too safe.

I just get annoyed by each generation thinking that THEIR time was the best, and sighing and whining about these kids today. Look things were never perfect, and they're never going to be.

Progress changes each generation, and each generation has a new set of problems and solutions to create. I think that's quite wonderful, and shouldn't be made into something shameful.


But it is nice to get nostalgaic now and then!