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They have built skateboard parks all over the valley. I took my kid to one yesterday. There was almost one hundred kids on boards, skates and bikes going in every direction running into each other and maybe 5 had helmets on.
These "parks" are much more dangerous then anything we had back then.
Kids have to much to do inside with cable TV, video games and the puter.
When I was my kids age I was out the door when I woke up and came home for lunch and dinner. I was outside till bedtime even when it was 110 degrees out.
The kids nowadays stay in till its almost dark and they dont explore like we use to.
My son will not drink tapwater. He has to have bottled water. When my parents took us to the mts, we opened the car door and were gone. Mom and dad had to usually come find us. When I lived in SC same thing. We were not allowed in the woods and thats where we spent all our time.
Kids today do not know how to have fun unless it involves money.

Sounds like you had a great childhood. I spent half of my time in the boroughs of NYC - playing rough games of stickball where the sewers and manhole covers served as bases - and the rest of the time in suburban heaven - falling out of our apple tree every other day or spending hours fishing a car tire out of a swampy pond (I think we wanted to make a swing). We also picked up candy that had fallen in the dirt, shared chewed chewing gum and played "blood brothers" with unsterilized needles stolen from our mother's sewing box. I still miss those days!

When I was my kids age I was out the door when I woke up and came home for lunch and dinner. I was outside till bedtime even when it was 110 degrees out.

Them were the good old days. We try to let our kids play outside 'til it's dark. Trouble is, in a neighborhood of 50 kids, there's hardly anyone to play with. Everyone's inside.