WOW!! I do remember out houses and screen doors and playing outside way after dark with oodles of neighborhood kids and growing up with music all around!! I had a swing in a huge oak tree, I made mud pies (and ate some!!) We got one of those AWFUL silver trees and the whole family revolted til Daddy got us another real tree! I remember my Mom asking us kids in September to start making a list for Christmas gifts we wanted. With 7 kids she and Dadddy had to plan ahead. I got a "walking doll" dishes, a nurses kit and a cowboy rig one year!! I have had kids ask me Where do the batteries go? and What does this do? when they see some old fashioned toys . I always tell them there were no batteries and the toy would do anything you imagined it would do!! My own kids always want to hear stories about when I was young (when dinosaurs roamed the earth!!) When I was 7 and 8 years old my dad would take me to my grand mothers house to spend Saturday. She was totally blind, heated her house with an open coal fire and lived in town. I was completely safe because I was raised to respect my grand mother . I asked if I could go ANYWHERE and if I was just gonna play in her yard I knew to let her know that and to come in every so often just to remind her so she would not worry about me!!! I walked to the store played in the woods, and walked home from friends house at 11 as a teenager and was safe!! I could go on and on(and already have) Today is an entirely different world!!