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I really wish that my girls could know what it was like to leave in the morning (after the work was done of course) and know that one must make it home when the street lights came on. To be at another child's house and have that mom hand out home made popsicles on tupperware sticks. I would like them to be able to trick or treat. Stay out for two hours and the delight of getting in line at their own home only to have mom or dad pretend not to recognize the angel or princess at the door.
My girls are driven for fun because the only kids here are spoiled brats who own every toy ever made and dying for real adult attention. I can't stand it.
Thanks for this post, it will be fun.

I watched "To Kill a Mockingbird" with my kids a few weeks ago, and I told them how much my childhood was like that. Going anywhere in town that I wanted, as long as it was within walking distance and I was home for meals. So much freedom, and so much fun.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" took place in the 30's, and I was a child in the 60's - but the southern childhood of long summer days and bare feet was the same.
I don't know when it disappeared, but my kids surely didn't have the same kind of freedom.