Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

by Dan Simmons

Why do today’s kids have so damned much to say and so damned little to do? One answer may be that we’ve stolen most of the real world from them.

the current generation of parents are scared s***less for their kids, and they act on that fear by oversupervising, overworrying, overscheduling, and overdirecting their children’s lives, stealing from that younger generation the space, time, secrets, and silences that are necessary for childhood to survive into the 21st century.

Nothing was as simple as stupid people assumed it to be.