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**Uojeyak** · 08-21-2012, 11:29 PM

It seems that so many adults (including myself) look back fondly at our "free range" childhood, so recently some friends of mine (mostly younger than me) and I were trying to pinpoint when it ended. We figured probably some time around 1990, give or take a couple of years. Is there anybody here would feels they didn't grow up with a lot of freedom to roam as a kid? When would that have been?

Free-range child here.

Granted, I was not born in the 1990s... but if I had to draw a symbolic line of that sort, I would have to set it at 9/11/2001. As in, children who were born after that date were born into a different world than those born before it.
Those children who were already alive on 9/11 began living in a different world from that day on. Adults, of course, also live in this so-called "post-9/11 world", but childhood and the loss of it is the topic at hand.

08-21-2012, 11:29 PM	#20
Uojeyak Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 424 Senior Member	It seems that so many adults (including myself) look back fondly at our "free range" childhood, so recently some friends of mine (mostly younger than me) and I were trying to pinpoint when it ended. We figured probably some time around 1990, give or take a couple of years. Is there anybody here would feels they didn't grow up with a lot of freedom to roam as a kid? When would that have been? Free-range child here. Granted, I was not born in the 1990s... but if I had to draw a symbolic line of that sort, I would have to set it at 9/11/2001. As in, children who were born after that date were born into a different world than those born before it. Those children who were already alive on 9/11 began living in a different world from that day on. Adults, of course, also live in this so-called "post-9/11 world", but childhood and the loss of it is the topic at hand.
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