You can still teach all these values without going back in time. Just wishing you could go back in time will do nothing but make you depressed (just look at my MIL). You want to pass on some old fashioned values, hard work, etc.

My son has his own set of toy tools at 2 years old and is always trying to takes screws out of something since he watches me do it. He was just past a year old when goes in the garage, grabs the air hose and starts bumping it on the wheel trying to put air in the tire like I did. he gets up from the table and puts his plate in the sink, etc. He's already starting to learn about hard work.

My point is don't sit around saying the past is better because this and that. Bring the this and that into te present and future.