Kid World Lost

"Nothing has changed more for the worse since the '50s than childhood. The lives of children were, Bryson remembers, 'unsupervised, unregulated and robustly' physical. 'Kids were always outdoors - I knew kids who were pushed out the door at eight in the morning and not allowed back in until five unless they were on fire or actively bleeding.'"
-George Will on Bill Bryson's book The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir