[coldtea]

Most of the things you describe are part of a good childhood and learning boundaries and limits, and testing yourself, and growing harder, and having fun.

Sorry, but we had been living like that for ages before helicopter parents became the norm. Kids didn't die in the streets by the truckload, or jump off of roofs to their doom any any number to statistically matter, as this alarmist comment implies.

[watwut]

Kids mortality used to be much higher then it is now.

[coldtea]

For totally different reasons. We're not talking about street urchins in Victorian era or pre-modern medicine child mortality.

[watwut]

The deadly accidents were a thing the way they basically are not a thing now.

[argiopetech]

Yet, accidents are still the leading cause of death for children 0-14 years of age.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/child-health.htm

[coldtea]

You can't die if you're already not living

[Zambyte]

Kids mental health used to be much better than it is now.