The gentleman's post resonated - he remembers the 80s, when he was in the kiddie warehouse.

He said, he remembers the other kids - they didn't want to be there either.  Of course not!  Little boys want to run and play outside, but outside is traffic - and maybe a few unsavory people roaming the streets, and alleyways.  There's also insurance - if a kid runs off, trips, and ends up with a bo-bo on his knee...oh, that could yeild some easy fun money for the kid's parent/s.  

And yeah, moms have to work...just the way things are.  And it's just the way things are, the kids end up losing out - on their childhoods.

Oh for sure, the kids end up, 4th, 5th... place.  There was this kid who, at a fast food restaurant, had slightly bumped into a high chair.  Well, no fake, heard the mother spout off, with a snarl, (of flipping course :/ something about they could "get sued."  Uhm, the freaking chair came nowhere close to even a mild topple.  What the hey, why upset a kid over a non-occurrence!  Wouldn't a dramafree "be careful, hon" had been sufficient?  It was more like the child had brushed up against the high chair - that was sitting in the freaking aisle, to begin with; if the baby's parents are so concerned, you'd think they'd of chosen a better place to eat supper.  But anyway...

As a seven-ish year old, having witnessed the needless scene, i remember thinking, along the lines, that the baby musn't that important to the opportunistic parents, who'd jump for the chance to cash in, quick.  Adults (want to) think, kids are stupid, dolts, and that's so NOT TRUE!