>> I grew up in car-centric suburbia. I [ed: did things in parks, streets that were safe to play in, places without risk of acquiring an arrest record].
> Right, stereotypical suburbia is actually pretty good for walking and biking around, hanging out at the park, etc...What's not so good is "rural" suburbia [ed: neighborhoods built in recent generations]
My generation had cool places to play. We had streets without heightened risk of dying. We had countless places to go without worrying about life-changing arrest records (when minor transgressions were handled and then fully forgotten).
My kids generation did not have those things.
In the face of this, modern adults seem divided into two camps:
1) Blaming kids for having their development world wiped out and
2) Taking away the few tools kids have - for coping with having their development world wiped out.
My generation had cool places to play. We had streets without heightened risk of dying. We had countless places to go without worrying about life-changing arrest records (when minor transgressions were handled and then fully forgotten).
My kids generation did not have those things.
In the face of this, modern adults seem divided into two camps:
1) Blaming kids for having their development world wiped out and
2) Taking away the few tools kids have - for coping with having their development world wiped out.