LogFAQs > #979425031

I live in a very small town in the Midwest in the middle of cornfields and soybean fields with farms all around. Traffic isn't an issue. It's a town I spent a lot of time in as a child and we literally played in the streets all the time. Came home after the street lights came on. Unsupervised all day, rode bikes, went swimming in the river (yes unsupervised) played ball, went to the park, went to friends, did all kinds of stuff.

You could tell where we were gathered by the big pile of bikes in the yard at whatever house or area we were at.

I just don't see it much these days. I still see it. I hear giggling, the occasional pair of kids playing catch, they go over to the baseball field at the school and play. I still see kids riding bikes here or there but it is definitely way rarer than when I was young in the 80's.

But these kids have so much more of an online centric social life that simply didn't exist when I was a kid. It's just different. I don't fault them for that.