Yeah...times have certainly changed. We left the house after breakfast and came home for dinner all summer long. My parents would probably get arrested for that today. After dinner we could stay outside until the street lights came on. we had all the freedom we could possibly want as long as we were home on time for dinner and when those lights came on. My father enforced those two rules with an iron fist...or rather a leather belt!
These days, "parents" (or more appropriately, "gene co-donors") wrap their kids up in a bubble, shove a smartphone into their hands and a TV screen into their faces, give them trophies just for showing up, and protect them from the logical consequences of their actions.
It's the parents of these kids who need an ass-whuppin' and not the kids themselves. The kids are just gonna need decades of de-programming.