Child of Our Time is back!!

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It's on next Monday and Tuesday.

Can anyone remember when the last one was on as it seems like years? They are all teenagers now.

The triples and their parents are fabulous!

How beautiful is Het.

I feel old. I remember watching the start of this at primary school

Brought a tear to the eye!

Love the prom pics - dd wants the triplets' dresses for hers this year! Brave displaying their exam results. So bittersweet to see them all then and now.

My eyes got a bit damp at the end. I'm a complete sucker for a montage

Great programme with a fabulous ending. There are some great families and children. Sad Rebecca's parents have also now split and lovely to hear Nathan's dad talking about how proud he is of him.

I think the support they gave their children during exams was great and their comments about the impact of social media, exam pressure/uni pressure and mental health etc were spot on too.

I felt this update was a bit woolly. The findings were too vague and focussed on just one of the children rather than looked at them across the group.

It was nice to see them all growing up nicely, but I feel it's lost its way with the whole social study aspect. Unless it was dumbed down for the BBC1 viewers and the OU release some more concrete and detailed findings elsewhere?

I'd love them to do a mini series of more individual updates like they've done before, looking more at the social then scientific aspects of the children but perhaps (rightly) they have a say in this and want to protect themselves a bit more. Some kids were featured and spoke briefly but we got no real update at all :(

I have such huge affection for this series and the families. Ds was born just before they started filming so I particularly love following them.

I've been watching this since I started uni. I remember watching with my Mum (sadly no longer with us). I'll have to watch on catch up.

I often wonder how Carol and James are. She always came across as such a loving Mum. I understand that she had to drop out for security reasons relating to her ex

Some of them scarcely got a look in this time around - Helena featured very little indeed. And Paris not much more so.

It is fascinating though. DC1 is a little younger than them (next academic year methinks), although still a Millennium baby, so I have a vested interest.

Teddy, I'm wondering if Parys asked not to be featured as much? Same with the others that didn't get as much of a look in.

It wasn't the best of updates really but it was nice to see the ones that were featured.

Watching on i player..interesting to hear teen pregnancy is at an all time low. I like Eve shes lovely ,

I think the kids who only got one or two sentences just didn't have enough of a "story" to warrant more screen time. Previous series used to be 3 or 4 episodes, didn't they? Shame they couldn't stretch it out for longer and spend more time on updates - but then they didn't have enough "science" for another hour, I guess.

Yes I thought previous updates were longer

I loved the "7 Up" series and I think the problem with COOT is that this isn't that. I was trying to work out why it felt a bit unsatisfactory and I think it is because it is a mixed format. 7 Up was unashamedly "sociological" - it looked at people as children and then also at whether they followed the trajectory that they were likely on as they grew up (the whole premise was the saying "show me a child of 7 and I will show you the man"). It also looked at how "their" social trajectory changed as the times around them changed (a good example is the accents - which were very very different among the 7 year olds but as adults, and I suspect among their own children, they all sound much more similar to each other , ie only the Queen sounds like the Queen these days).

COOT is not a sociological study in the same way, it is more a look at the development of a child to adult using an identified cohort.

(Personally, I prefer the first approach as I like to sit down with a big box of popcorn and go, "ooh, I always knew he was going to be a wrong 'un,: she's married well; I could have guessed that marriage would never last" etc etc. But I can see that is very intrusive (and I could just watch EastEnders!) and its probably a much harder sell to get people to participate in - and continue to participate in - these days.

Came on here to see why Tyrese and James hadn't been featured and then sadly read the update about Tyrese's mum. I hope he (and his sisters) are coping and the life she badly wanted for Tyrese happens.
Sad not to see more of Helena, I often think of her and think it's amazing how amazingly she flourished as she was born at only 25 weeks - 16 years ago!

What happened with tyrese's mum? I must've missed that

Tyreses mum died last year.
James' mum is now a grandmother as Bernie had a child in the last year (I think).

Oh no that's so sad how?

So is that 2 of them have lost their mums tyrese and Eve?

It doesn't say how, just that she passed away in 2016.
Eve has coped amazingly from what we were shown.

Eve and Rihanna both remind me of my dd. Very independant, a little cynical and sarcastic. But I worry dd is TOO independant. And maybe I'm projecting but I wonder if their parents have the same concerns?

A 16 yr old shouldn't be cynical but sadly sometimes life experience leads them that way.

I sometimes wondered about James. I remember it being said he had an above average IQ, but I thought considering his family background he probably wouldn't be a high achiever. I would love to have been proved wrong.

We're Herts GCSE results announced? She was so desperate for high grades.