I wish our kids could know the freedom we grew up with. We used to ride around “untied” in the back of pickup trucks. We could sit in the front bench seat of the car with our families and not feel like a pariah. We could work for the locals when we were 12 for candy money, and never fear riding our bikes alone to the corner store to buy it.
We used to stand up to bullies with the now almost extinct retort, “Sez who? It’s a free country!”
What's weird is that the kids believe they HAVE total freedom. Life today is all they really know and they're being brainwashed daily to believe that it's all for the good.
Who should these kids believe? Many have parents who have split up and remarried. Lovely for the children! (sarc)
Some never had a father to emulate and some probably don't know who their father is!
Then there's the career moms and dads. Big money, but not much time spent with the children, who need their parents way more than the $$$.
I remember a a time when that was not the norm.