When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren’t glued to computers because they didn’t exist, so being active was all we knew.

Loeb contrasts a pre-digital childhood—structured around school physical education, extracurricular dance, skating, and readily available sports—with contemporary childhoods often mediated by screens. The quote frames physical activity not as a special regimen but as the default social and recreational environment of her youth: movement was built into daily life because there were fewer sedentary entertainments competing for attention. Implicitly, it critiques how technological convenience can narrow children’s habits and opportunities for embodied play, while also suggesting nostalgia for community-based, in-person activities. The broader significance is cultural rather than purely personal: it points to a generational shift in how leisure is organized and how “being active” becomes a choice rather than an assumption.