Name some things that kids/teens could do in the 1980's that kids/teens today can't?

Ride your bike to the corner store by yourself for a soda. (Or candy cigarettes)

Recite all your friends’ and family’s phone numbers from memory.

Spend an entire afternoon playing video games at the arcade for $10 in quarters.

Write a letter in cursive, legible handwriting.

Go door to door in several neighborhoods on Halloween, Trick or Treating for pillowcases full of candy.

Make a mixtape on cassette of favorite songs and give it to your girlfriend.

Go through all twelve years of primary and secondary education and never once touch a calculator. (I wasn’t allowed to use one until I got to college)

Experience life without the internet.

Buy smokeless powder and slow-burn fuse at the local gun shop, and take it home to make grenades with 35mm film canisters.

Then throw them at each other in the woods behind our house.

Be able to hold a proper conversation. (Because that was pre-smartphones)

Have real fun. 

Today's teens are all about their phones or who's having more sex and who's earning more money. They don't do what past teens did. Theres no fun. Even when they go out together, they still stare at their phones while taking pictures to post to social media. Mental health issues are on the rise. Teens today are most likely to kill themselves or suffer from something. That didn't happen much back then.

Talk in face 2 face

not be in a pandemic 

Drive a stick shift car.