answer:1. Moms were at home full-time not working. That meant kids were at home instead of at an after-school caregiver’s, which might or might not be in the neighborhood. 2. There were no computers, video games, VCRs, DVDs, and not much on afternoon TV (if you were allowed to watch it) that kept kids indoors and glued to a solitary activity. 3. Children did not have organized afterschool and extracurricular activities at the exponential level they exist now and calendars that rival a CEO’s.