Remember the cinnamon challenge in 2011-2012? We tried to eat a spoonful of throat-drying oxygen-impairing cinnamon with no water. We all did it (I certainly did), and we all laughed as our peers choked...

Fifty years ago, children would run around all day with little supervision and little fear. Today, children are much more safe than they were, with seat belts and surveillance cameras wherever we go. Strangely,...