[impossiblefork]

Well, if there's a progressive increase in coddling and formalisation of play, certainly.

But perhaps once these practices begin to be reversed, people will feel that it's terrifying that the children are suddenly independent and not incredibly passive and cowardly.

[Tade0]

It's happening already. Many people perceive children as "spoiled" whereas in fact they're simply not as passivated as the previous generation.

[impossiblefork]

That's really good to hear, but I hope you go much further than you have imagined, getting to some kind of Norway or Sweden level, or beyond it, to drive us back to where we ought to be.