Vinny, I think the reason for this is that whilst we were children for longer than the kids of today, when we watched TV, etc, it was under the often watchful eye of our parents, not alone in our own room. the programmes we watched were not just as far fetched as the ones nowadays and when we were watching the far fetched ones, our parents ever reminded us that they were 'made up'. We would never have dreamt of doing some of the things todays kids do, we had too much common sense.