The big difference between now and then was there were many more children, especially among the people who have the ability or desire to create opinions. Thats my, perhaps brutal, take on it.
Not all the eggs were in one basket so to speak.
Now the cultural influencers, if they have children, have one, generally, or two at most. There are no “spares”.
In the early ‘60’s, we played “Army” and put gravel in aluminum foil, packed it around a “cherry bomb” and threw at the “enemy”...
When they hollered, we said, “You’re dead!!!! We gotcha!!!”
It was really fun....
Very true. The fact that we have so many fewer kids also partly explains #6. We all went out and played with the other kids in the neighborhood, either in the backyard, nearby woods or the playground. Today kids don't have the opportunity to do that because there simply aren't other kids around.
Good point. It is easy and even natural to helicopter your one and only baby.
You have to let go and let live three kids running around, or else you’d go nuts trying.