As a relatively "free range" child in my youth and now the parent of children, even I find it hard to reconcile how I feel differently that my parents.

e.g. at 10 years old, my cousins and I were running around in the woods at my gradparents' home in rural Pennsylvania. I was the oldest of the group with my youngest cousin probably being 6. No cell phones. No Apple watches etc. We were outside of that house around 9am and would come back for lunch and then dinner when my grandmother rang the bell.

My oldest has an Apple watch and is both reachable able trackable yet the above still feels little strange to me.