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You are exaggerating the lengths parents are going to now to protect their kids, idealizing the years you grew up, and underestimating the care parents in the 80s gave their kids. So yes, you sound ridiculous and your memory of your childhood is warped.
You're seeing parents of the 80s through the eyes of a 10 year-old. You're seeing parents of 2012 through they eyes of (I'm guessing here) a 20-something dude. You think the world isn't dangerous, but that's because you don't know how stupid small kids can be. It isn't dangerous for you, but it is dangerous for them. They need lots of care and supervision.
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I'm not exaggerating anything. I really was allowed to walk to kindergarten and bike to elementary school without adult supervision. I really did wait outside in the cold for the school bus, not inside a heated car with my mother. I really was allowed to play all over the neighbourhood, completely out of sight of my parents, for hours on end (with no cell phone, of course). I'm not misremembering these facts. These things really happened.