One More Thought About My Old Neighborhood

[lydy]

 I was there in the early evening in late July, before school starts.  I saw no kids, not a one.  When I lived there, the street would have thronged with kids playing kickball, touch football, hide and seek, tag, or just rambling about solitary and climbing trees.  I know that this was 40 years ago, before video games...but no kids?   None at all?  On a spectacularly fine July evening, well before even the littles bedtime?  


ETA: Thanks for the additional information about both modern parenting and parenting in the time of COVID.  I feel...not better, exactly, but less sure that it meant anything.