When I was in school, I walked 20 miles, uphill both ways, in the snow, at night, with no shoes, carrying 45 pounds of books, and on the way I had to kill and skin a squirrel or opossum for my lunch each day, then do 16 hours of chores every evening before finishing my homework, milking the cows and herding the cattle.
But we didn't seem to have quite so many child molesters and serial killers back then as now. Except for Ted Bundy, he lived around here and killed one of my high school classmates.
But you're right, kids expect to be driven everywhere, nobody walks anymore, and I never even see kids on bicycles. We rode our bikes all over the place. But we didn't have to surf the phone and text every two minutes back then, either.
Times change.