We did just fine with BB-guns ... no wussy helmets on bikes ... rope swings ... being home alone while the parents worked ... playing in the park without an adult and MANY other things that make todays wussfied generation cringe. We did especially well without over bearing and way over protective helicopter parents and government.
Walking home from kindergarten alone. Also, I never knew anyone much less a kid who had a counselor or a therapist. Until I was about a junior in college I had never heard of same sex attraction. I could go on and on.