re: What experiences from your past would you bring back for today's kids if you could?

Average run of the mill Saturday or summer day in the early 1970s. Almost everything we did was better for kids than what kids do on Saturdays and a typical summer day now.

If it was summer up around 7ish and out the door by 8. Riding bikes, motorcycles, swimming in the creek, fishing. Playing football/baseball/kickball - whatever we could come up with. Lunch around 2 or so, a little TV (WTBS was over the air in Atlanta so we had all the good sit-com re-runs like Leave it to Beaver and Gilligan). When it started to cool off in the evening a repeat of the morning...playing ball, fishing, running through a water hose....home for dinner and back at it again until dark or just after. Our parents not only did not know where we were most of the time they did not care...as long as we made it home and weren't arrested. We would walk 4-5 miles to a convenience store...on the side of a state highway. Most folks won't let their kids out of reach let alone sight today...that is the biggest thing kids miss, being independent and responsible for themselves and their actions. We did mean shite, we acted like assholes....and when we got caught we paid a dear price...but we survived and most of us are pretty decent sorts for the experience...