You just can't compare today's mothers with when we were little, it's a different world. I remember running around outside all day long at a young age, everybody did. I walked to the Woolworths with my friends at age 7 and this was in a year we lived in Chicago! Nothing happened to us..we weren't hit by a car or kidnapped etc. My mom was a stay at home mom and was a great mother but she didn't spend all day with me either, she was busy doing laundry, cleaning, ironing, cooking while we played with outside friends or by ourselves or with siblings.