While I highlighted some of my child hood' more stupid adventures for effect, there are a lot of things that we did that were appropriate, let us have a since of adventure and accomplishment, were unsupervised, and let us build confidence in ourselves over time. Of course, I would never advocate giving kids gasoline and matches, or grinding flashpowder dry (It flashed on us two times resulting in two trips to the hospital).
But sheesh, today's world IS over surpervised, over scheduled, and over protected. As a result, the kids often feel that they can't do anything on their own. It also has lost its sense of humor. There are tons of old songs, such as Guess I'll Go Eat Worms, that my band could never play at a school, or even at a festival on a "family stage" without someone saying they were inappropriate. Instead we get the "mind messengers" in bright pink and purple vests spouting "educational songs" that are "good for the kids" . Yuck!
I would love to do a whole set of fun of all the fun inappropriate songs that kids enjoy and get their parents up in arms and chasing me around like a frankenstein monster.