The 1960s and 70s accidentally produced one of the most emotionally durable generations in modern history — not through better parenting but through benign neglect that forced children to self-regulate, problem-solve, and develop emotional calluses that modern comfort has made nearly impossible to grow
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Being in your 30s is a funny place to watch the generations from. You catch yourself marvelling at how the older lot take life’s knocks – the redundancies, the family dramas, the boiler packing in the week before Christmas – with barely a raised eyebrow.
So I started asking. Over cups of tea and over the garden fence, I put the same question to anyone born in the 1960s and 70s who’d humour me: did your childhood make you tougher? What surprised me was how similar the answ
So I started asking. Over cups of tea and over the garden fence, I put the same question to anyone born in the 1960s and 70s who’d humour me: did your childhood make you tougher? What surprised me was how similar the answ
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