It's more like a watched microwave never beeps. My boys will never have paper routes on their bicycles or listen to records on a turntable. They'll never lick a bowl of cookie dough, thanks to my fear of e. coli. Kids today live in a casual society where they call adults by their first names. If it weren't for weddings and funerals, they might never own a real pair of shoes or a tie.
Tennis shoes are acceptable.
My kids live in a world with all of life's modern conveniences. A world of cell phones and head phones, a world where the toothbrushes are electric and you push buttons to dial a phone. How times have changed.