Has Society Gone Soft?

Photo by Nienke Burgers on Unsplash

Back in the 1970s and ’80s, we used to go out, fall of bikes, get grazed, bandaged up, and go back out. We’d play in the mud and climb on old railway wagons.

Today, kids are mollycoddled with rubber ‘tarmac’ under climbing frames, helicopter parenting styles, and protected from partaking in ‘risky play’ which would actually benefit their development.