We Have Ruined Childhood
I think there is a large amount of idealization of What It Used To Be Like in this article, an in a lot of contemporary thinking.I recommend reading "Breaking Clean" by Judy Blunt. Therein, she talks about her trek from growing up on a family farm, raising kids, then escaping to a university town. The problem for her boys was that in the city, they were just boys, but on the farm, they were men-in-training.