It would be very hard to have the kind of childhood most of us enjoyed again. Not because the world is worse off, but because our perceptions make it seem so. Parents now get visits from social services if they let their children roam free. In some states its actually illegal for kids to be left unsupervised. Without electronics to keep him occupied, Junior wouldn’t just be bored, he’d be an outlaw.
It would be very hard to have the kind of childhood most of us enjoyed again. Not because the world is worse off, but because our perceptions make it seem so. Parents now get visits from social services if they let their children roam free. In some states its actually illegal for kids to be left unsupervised. Without electronics to keep him occupied, Junior wouldn’t just be bored, he’d be an outlaw.