It hasn’t always been the 1950s.
Wednesday 13 September 2006 – 14:00Anne Karpf doesn’t actually remind us of this sort of thing but childhood (and adulthood) is not and never has been easy: the world is changing rapidly for all of us and this change is is both scary and exciting. More on this here.
One Response to “It hasn’t always been the 1950s.”
Interesting discussion. I think here in the US we are a lot farther down the road of the kind of childhood those Telegraph letter signers were decrying. I am clearly in the camp that food choices and education are worse these days than they were in my days (although my mother was a horrible cook, so my personal food choices were always bad - either crap fast food or crap home cooked food), but I think the computer and the accompanying technological advances are almost entirely beneficial.
I would also add that the food and education issues are also tied together with the lives that we as parents are living. When you are at work for such a large percentage of time, it is certainly harder to plan and prepare healthy meals, or spend the time to help your child better understand what they learned at school.
By Maureen on Thursday 14 September 2006 – 16:21