When I was that age, if you drove past the park where the diamonds were, you might find 70 bikes parked there, with three diamonds packed with kids. That simply does not happen now. On the video game comment....my mom teaches 3rd grade, she has real difficulty getting the kids to understand the difference between the war footage they see on TV, and the video games they play. They'll be talking about the war, and a kid will say "Yeah, I saw that on level 4 of such and such game." Mom will stop things and say "NO! Those are real people in Iraq, like all of us, and your parents and cousins, etc...THAT IS NOT THE SAME THING as your games." No kidding, a decent percentage of the kids do not get the distinction, no matter how many times they go over it....that scares the heck out of me.