I keep hearing people my age say the same awkward thing when they talk about childhoods that involved porches and paper routes and real chores. They do not mean to romanticise the past. They mean to register a loss that is practical and moral not romantic. Responsibility in the 1960s and 1970s arrived as a … Read more
There is a stubborn truth I keep noticing in meetings and in the corner of my local pub. When a plan needs completing or a long slow job needs a person to see it over the line the ones who reliably do the finishing are often the people born in the 1960s and 1970s. This … Read more
Growing up before the internet rewired attention and expectation taught people born in the 1960s and 1970s a different grammar of fixing things. This is not nostalgia dressed up as analysis. It is an attempt to trace a set of habits and attitudes that shaped how an entire cohort approached knots of daily life when … Read more
There is a particular look people of a certain age give when the conversation turns to childhood. It is not merely nostalgia. It is a mixture of irritation and quiet pride. Modern psychology is finally catching up to that look and saying out loud what those raised in the 1960s and 1970s have quietly known … Read more
There is a stubborn, slightly uncomfortable observation circulating in psychology circles: people who spent their childhoods in the 1960s and 1970s often display a steadier capacity to sit with annoyance, delay gratification, and absorb small humiliations without immediate meltdown. This is not a nostalgic paean to vinyl or a claim that everything was better then. … Read more
There is a curious steadiness about many people born in the 1960s and 1970s. They do not erupt at the first sign of a hiccup. They do not perform panic as a default mode. The pattern is visible in cafés and train carriages and the comment threads you secretly skim. It is not universal and … Read more
There is a stubborn idea floating around that the children of the 1960s and 1970s were either hardened by scarcity or mollycoddled by freedom. Both stories skip the middle ground where most real learning happens. I want to argue something less tidy and more useful. Childhood in the 60s and 70s produced forms of emotional … Read more
There is a quiet stubbornness to people born in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not theatrical. It is not the loud sabre-rattling of social media performativity. It is a lived preference for being measured by personal standards rather than public applause. You see it in the way they answer a compliment with a half … Read more
There is a quiet, stubborn difference in how people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s handle pressure. It is not merely age. It is a mosaic of schooling, social expectations, trauma thresholds, and the ways communities taught people to survive. This piece is not a lab report. It is an argument with evidence … Read more
There is a particular look in the eyes of people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not the weary resignation of those crushed by modern pressures. Nor is it the gleam of frantic hustle. It is a steadier thing. A kind of inherited steadiness that does not always announce itself loudly … Read more