I enjoyed doing things on my own during the 70’s.
By 1971, I was about 14 y/o, already in the 7th grade.
I was already used to getting up on time and getting a bus to school. doing lots of walking around downtown Detroit.
I was always organized enough to get home before it was late.
I started my first job outside the home at age 14.
My first real girlfriend also at 14 years. Not much privacy though.
Children today have a lot more “stuff” than children in the 1970s had. Some of that “stuff” was (in the 1970s) the stuff of science fiction.
But I feel sorry for children today. They have more “stuff” but they have a lot less freedom. That loss of childhood freedom is as good a measure as any of how dreadfully we have allowed leftists to ruin America.
By 1971, I was about 14 y/o
You are old!
LOL
I am not much younger, I can no longer brag that I was born in 1962! My niece and nephew look at me like, Whoa, born before water was invented!
Freegards