I just wish I had listened closer back then. Let the kids play. I live out in the country, and I have to beg and plead with my kids to come in to eat, etc., let alone go to bed. My kids play a lot like I did when I was growing up, and I really have to bite my tongue to keep from getting on them about being filthy etc. My pies had green grass, dry grass, hay, straw, sawdust, rocks, pebbles, sand, leaves and you name it used as special ingredients.
TV is more important than family time.
You definitely did not walk over the walls, you went to the appropriate door. How simple the days were, but fun. Not as orderly, but they worked. We sure didn't have the worries that kids do today. I've been a quilter since the age of 8, and have always made 'play quilts' for my children and grandchildren to spread out under a shady tree to read and play.