Give Me a Secret Garden
This was basically the plot of the Black Mirror episode &quot;Arkangel&quot; [0]<p>We need to give kids more space to discover their own limits, and to get hurt. I look at the kids in &quot;Stranger Things&quot; riding their unsupervised across town, playing in a junk yard, and I remember doing that stuff (child of the 80s&#x2F;early 90s here.) Staying out until the streetlights came on. Yes, we got injured. Yes, I ended up in parts of town I probably shouldn&#x27;t have been in. Occasionally, I got my ass kicked. This was all part of growing up for most of human history.<p>I never see the kids in my neighborhood doing that. I&#x27;ve never seen any of them leave the street, and always with the parents on the patio, chatting with each other. The last time I saw a roving band of 9-to-13 year-olds biking around town was probably the early 2000s.<p>I kind of understand what changed media- and culture-wise, but has the real world actually changed that much in 25 years to merit the sort of constant-supervision-every-moment-planned-and-accounted-for world kids now grow up in?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Arkangel_(Black_Mirror)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Arkangel_(Black_Mirror)</a>