Jul 21, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
There was a time when kids disappeared after breakfast, knocked on neighbours' doors, entertained themselves and came home when it got dark. Today, childhood often looks very different. Parents track…
Fiona LooneyGuest
Fred CookeGuest
Sean MoncriefHost
When kids first came along to you, were you intentional in the sense of thinking, well, I'm going to do this different or aspects of it differently from what your own parents did?
But, you know, I think our parents, you know, and I'm sadly probably the oldest person in the room, but certainly my parents were very typical of their generation of parents.
It was kind of if you can get these people to 18 or 19 and they are still alive, you punch the air and you go off and you enjoy the rest of your life.
You know, it really was, you know, other than sort of kind of put a key, put a front door key around your neck and feed you.
It was very hard to reject that because it was such a flimsy premise of parenting
Well, not reject it then, but say, look at it another way that, and my upbringing was exactly the same, that they were to a degree strangers, really.
And did you then decide or perhaps instinctively decide to be more involved with your children's lives? Yes.
And there used to be an awful lot of articles, kind of, you know, when I was very, when my children were very young, which really cautioned against this.
When kids first came along to you, were you intentional in the sense of thinking, well, I'm going to do this different or aspects of it differently from what your own parents did?
But, you know, I think our parents, you know, and I'm sadly probably the oldest person in the room, but certainly my parents were very typical of their generation of parents.
It was kind of if you can get these people to 18 or 19 and they are still alive, you punch the air and you go off and you enjoy the rest of your life.
You know, it really was, you know, other than sort of kind of put a key, put a front door key around your neck and feed you.
It was very hard to reject that because it was such a flimsy premise of parenting
Well, not reject it then, but say, look at it another way that, and my upbringing was exactly the same, that they were to a degree strangers, really.
And did you then decide or perhaps instinctively decide to be more involved with your children's lives? Yes.
And there used to be an awful lot of articles, kind of, you know, when I was very, when my children were very young, which really cautioned against this.
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