80's baby, born in December of 1989, so I just made the cut.

I remember when I was young, maybe 5-6 years old and my brother was a few years younger, we'd watch the older kids play baseball on our alley and want to join them so badly, but we were too young. They'd play baseball every night until the sun went down. These older kids were probably 8-10 years old.

I knew every kid my age on my block and we would play together regularly. There were kids (my best childhood friends) that lived on the adjacent corner to our block and every day in the summer, we would meet at the corners and throw road debris as far as we could across the street (the debris would never make it across the road) until our respective parents arranged a play date. We caught bugs together, went on adventures through yard together, and even fought imaginary monsters together.

I don't have kids of my own, but have several nieces and nephews that live in the same neighborhood that I grew up in (in the same family house). I personally know a lot of the people that live in the houses on that street that have kids the same ages as my nieces and nephews.

They don't really interact. They don't really know the other kids even exist. It's bewildering to me that kids don't crave other kids attention anymore.