How much safety do we need? I grew up standing on the hump running through the back seat leaning over my dad's shoulder so I could see where we were going. If we hit anything, I would have gone through the windshield like a rock. My kids had basic car seats. Easy to set up in the front seat, facing forward. As easy as putting them into a high chair. Toddlers could look out the window and could talk and point out the things we were seeing as we drove. Today, the expensive monstrosities are hard to set up and they are in the back seat and face backwards. Parent and toddler interaction is almost negligible. Just got done transporting the granddaughter and communication was non-existent. Just like the school shutdowns, the mental health and learning capacity of children is never considered, only the necessity of keeping them in a bubble. At age 9 I was mowing the lawn and on a summers day my parents would see me at lunch and then at 5:00. We were riding our bikes, throwing dirt clods at each other, playing workup and climbing trees in the nearby woods. Not an adult in sight. Today, that's child abuse. Had a fellow worker have his 9 year old brought home by a cop who picked her up after she had walked to the local school to play and the cop grabbed her on the way home. That was my entire neighborhood. No wonder we are turning into a nation of scared sheep.
