To think that Children of the Blitz should be required viewing in these ridiculous times?

Then they suppressed all their feelings and in their relief that the war was over they created the most entitled generation ever in the boomers who are hoarding the country's wealth, voting to leave a secure trading bloc, railing against immigration which makes our country economically strong and making this generation of young people unable to do completely ordinary things like buy a house or look forward to the future.

If you don't like this post because it characterises a whole generation of people unfairly, look to your own post.

Today's young people are funny, inventive, resilient and expressive. Saying how you feel is not weakness it's strength when things are fucking awful as they are currently. Their refusal to fall into line as canon fodder will save us all if we're lucky.

My fil lived through the Blitz, he thought his grandchildren were having a far worse and more difficult experience growing up because they do. He worried greatly about them.

Today's young people are hugely resilient, growing up in times most adults struggle with.

I watched this programme and would recommend it to anyone. The subjects were phenomenal and the programme was outstanding.

How many people committed suicide or were institutionalised because of it?

Do our children have it better now ? Materially yes but that is not always a good thing, in fact many have too much. Our children don't have freedom and that is really sad. Our children aren't allowed to "just be" their days are planned by their parents, play dates, clubs and activities. They don't get to wake up on a Saturday morning and make their own plans for the day, no wonder they struggle when they are young adults.
We have done our youngsters no favours.

OP, you are the pampered generation. I don't think it's for people like you to make judgments. You've no idea how hard it is for young people.

One of the things that always impressed me about my lovely granny, who lived through the war and had a tough upbringing before that, was that she was always quite clear about how important it was to make sure our children get better than we got. That was a strong guiding principle for many of that generation. It's got lost along the way, because then we had a generation who had everything done for them, everything financed, and so many of them truly believe in pulling up the ladder.

I find it really sad.

What a sad take op.

it's well known that war time creates a community feeling that people often miss when it is over - there is research showing that collective action can be very helpful for people in these times.

Young people now have lost many things children had in those days - free play, autonomy, the ability to choose to live their lives by about 14 in a job if they hate school.

It's not the fault of our generation we have trapped them in a sterile and dull education system and banned them from playing on their own streets or filled their play spaces with cars and no ball games.

ASk any adult who remembers growing up in the 40s - they will tell you they had a better childhood - despite the poverty than the trapped and anxious one we are giving kids now. Not at all the fauult of children

And if you think there was no neurodiversity in the 30s and 40s you are just ignorant.

Perhaps warmongers like Tony Bliar and Trump could do with watching them too.

Its the parents that project their issues onto the children that is a bigger issue

Oh please, the world is a completely different place now and thank goodness. Pressures are different but they still exist but its absolutely possible to raise resilient children - i have 3. I think a better strategy is to focus on the challenges that exist today - employment, cost of living, housing, education standards (and relevance) rather than harping back to the 'good old days' which weren't so great for many people and lots of people were living with undocumented ptsd, and many women, including those in my own family, had no choice but to stay in violent and/or controlling marriages. They got on with it but many were unhappy.

I didn’t see it (outside the UK with no access to iplayer), but surely it’s possible to see this remembered Blitz spirit as the terrified psychological crisis management of children who had no choice but to carry on through horrors and received no encouragement to talk about their feelings from equally traumatised adults?

This article from a few years ago has some interesting stuff on a team of government-sponsored psychiatrists and psychologists sent to interview survivors of heavy bombing in Hull, who found that survivors showed a range of symptoms like shaking, bed wetting, faecal incontinence, uncontrollable crying, and that men in particular drank and smoked heavily.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/19/myth-blitz-spirit-model-coronavirus

You have articulated exactly what I thought after watching it.
I know young people are not all the same, but the lack of resilience and sense of entitlement can too often be frightening.

I can’t be the only one who too often wants to tell people just to get a fucking grip!!

Re wartime, I do often think of my mother, always a worrier anyway, newly married, on her own in London during the Blitz - constantly expecting a telegram to say that DF (Royal Navy, Battle of the Atlantic) was gone, and would have ‘no grave but the sea’.

He did survive, but was incredibly lucky.

Honestly. How much experience of young adults do you have? Or is your experience all from social media???

Most young adults aren't idiots, same as most people during the war weren't idiots. My kids are bloody brilliant, in their 20s. My dad was in the war in his 20s. He'd be so proud of them.

Raise your kids to be decent adults and get off social media