I miss feeling the world was safe enough for the kids to play in the front yard or around the neighborhood without me having to have them in my sights all the time... I remember walking blocks to main street to buy a candy or go to the movie when I would visit grandparents on the mainland. My older two are grown now and I'm sure I'll be even more paranoid when grandkids come along... When I was a kid in Hawaii in the '60s, we didn't even lock our door. Maybe we were kidding ourselves back then, but it felt safer to me.