For children it was perhaps the last time where at least a bit of your innocence could last beyond age 12 or 13. Less control, more “well, the sun is shining, let’s hope they will be back by dinner”. I’ve probably never have known a neighborhood in more detail than when i was 8. You could do something stupid and it wouldn’t be filmed or photographed, with date and location tag, immediately uploaded into the cloud and available at a buttons press. You could get BORED, and then you’d do something that you hadn’t tried before, because you couldn’t just grab your phone and bombard yourself with tiny dopamine hits.
My nieces/nephews are struggling with this so hard. They are good kids and their parents are doing a commendable job, but they are lucky to have enough time and enough awareness to strictly limit their kids access to media.
For children it was perhaps the last time where at least a bit of your innocence could last beyond age 12 or 13. Less control, more “well, the sun is shining, let’s hope they will be back by dinner”. I’ve probably never have known a neighborhood in more detail than when i was 8. You could do something stupid and it wouldn’t be filmed or photographed, with date and location tag, immediately uploaded into the cloud and available at a buttons press. You could get BORED, and then you’d do something that you hadn’t tried before, because you couldn’t just grab your phone and bombard yourself with tiny dopamine hits.
My nieces/nephews are struggling with this so hard. They are good kids and their parents are doing a commendable job, but they are lucky to have enough time and enough awareness to strictly limit their kids access to media.