The older I get I’m so glad I grew up as I did. Sadly it was in an America that has pretty much vanished. Played in the dirt and mud, played tackle football with no protection, rode a bike with no helmet. Drank from a garden hose, played with fire crackers, BB guns, heck , me and my friends used to hike for miles along an active set of rail road tracks barely dodging fast passenger trains and long, slow moving freight trains. Its a wonder we weren’t killed!
When I was a kid, we ate radioactive substances.