Children's lives have changed dramatically ____ the last 50 years.But do they have a happier childhood than you or I did? It's difficult to look ____ on one's own childhood ____ some element of nostalgia. I have four brothers and sisters, and my memories are ____ about being with them, playing board games on the living room floor, or spending days outside ____ the other neighborhood children, racing around ____ our bikes, or exploring the nearby woods. My parents ____ ever appear in these memories, except as providers either of meals or of severe scoldings after ____ particularly hazardous adventure. These days, in the US ____ least, the nature of childhood has changed dramatically. ____, families are smaller, and there are many more only children. It is common for ____ parents to work outside the home and there is the feeling that there just isn't time to bring up a large family, or that no one could possibly ____ to have more than one child. ____, today's boys and girls spend much of their time alone. Another ____ change is that youngsters today tend to spend a huge proportion of their free time at home, inside. This is ____ more than anything to the fact that parents worry much more than they used to about real or imagined dangers, so they wouldn't dream of letting their children play outside by themselves. ____, the kinds of toys children have and the way they play is totally different. Computer and video games have replaced the board games and more active pastimes of my childhood. The irony is that so many of these devices are called "interactive." The ____ that you can play electronic games on your own further increases the sense of isolation felt by many young people today. Do these changes mean that children today have a ____ idyllic childhood than I had? I ____ believe that they do, but perhaps every generation feels exactly the same.

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