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Remember when swimming pools had diving boards, high dives even? We would all show off, doing flips, cannon balls, jack-knife dives. Then insurance companies required the pools to take down the diving boards.
I remember riding my bike down a steep hill with my feet on the handle bars, never got hurt.
I remember drinking a couple of tall glasses of whole milk and eating about a dozen of Mom's cookies made with shortening or real butter everyday after school. Never got fat, in fact I was really skinny.
The kids in my neighborhood would go down to the railroad tracks and place pennies on the tracks and rejoice when we retreived our flattened out coins.

I remember all the stuff everyone has mentioned. The tall diving board with two small ones on each side was quite a challenge. Just climbing up the ladder the first time was scary and then getting up there and looking down (it looked a lot higher from up there then it did on the ground) knowing that only sissies climbed back down so you had to get up the nerve to to make the plunge.
I would not want my kid to do half the things I did untill I think about it and say go ahead because I remember when I ws a kid and did it.
Someone mentioned on another post like this one about how the generations of people like became the greatest risk takers and produced some of the most amazing things the world has ever seen.
It looks like its all over now and the world will become a one world everything. Socialism, the third way , whatever they want to call it but the freedom we had as kids to do what we wanted made us a different breed and chances are society is all downhill from here on out.
Many people blame the baby boomers for the demise but its the fault of the lawyers, the judges and gov.org. Common sense has disappeared and the nanny state has taken over. It will be very hard if not impossible to take america back to what it once was.