“Didn’t you guys play with each other outside and ride bikes, hunt for snapping turtles and shoot BB guns and throw rocks and play baseball and football with each other and have rock fights, play marbles and trade baseball cards and coins out of your coin collections and climb trees and swim wherever there was water, play army?”
Yup! No helmets, either. Broke some bones; so what? Fixed our own cars. Rode minibikes like we were crazy. Lit bonfires. Slept in the woods. Etc.
We played with gasoline and matches, I have to admit that was some dangerous stuff, I can’t imagine letting the average modern kid around that military grade destructive play stuff.