re: A feeling/experience kids today don't have...

Freedom.

In second grade I started riding my bike to school with my brother, who was in kindergarten, on my pegs.

By fifth grade, we pretty much had the freedom to run the city on our bikes as long as we were back before dark.

In high school, we could drink and frick around without having to worry about our indiscretions being posted online. If we got picked up by a cop, he’d call your parents or drive you home and let them sort it out.

My young boys will have none of that freedom.