Childhood in 3 generations - Those were the differences!?

00:00:00: Alright hello and welcome to the children and books podcast today we are talking about.

00:00:13: Childhood in different generations and I'm really happy that paints Halloween and write with me today.

00:00:21: Hello from 90 kilos Ruby now and I'm very happy Rachel we like to talk

00:00:27: together today npower special guest today is Petra from cold is it right correct it doesn't matter.

00:00:41: Ok no problem.

00:00:49: Little talk thank you then well I am picture and I come originally from elsewhere in the South of Germany.

00:01:02: Yeah for the last 40 years I lived in Cologne in Cologne.

00:01:10: Yeah very good and we we know each other because I think a year ago we met.

00:01:17: And a digital way I was talking about this Hobbs and kern and it was so lovely that I said all the time or I like to invite speaker ones to our podcast.

00:01:29: Yeah thank you so much.

00:01:32: And MOT let's start directly with childhood I would say Blanco you are as a nearest to the Triumph what would you say to this

00:01:43: how was it for you or I think when you all reflect the bits what was special in your time for the trial

00:01:50: yeah I am really thankful for my childhood I I love my childhood I think I had a great shouted and maybe when you're talking about the

00:02:03: 2000 years 2000

00:02:07: there was everything I guess cos like off because of capitalism that was everything accessible and the internet came up and so everything was there but the special thing for me was the eye

00:02:21: with all the digital things and that's what was positive for me as well right now

00:02:27: because I'm working only digitally and that helped me a lot

00:02:32: yeah help me a lot grown up with that and I can't really compare my child to different type of slow for the something you charge it because I may be too young and I didn't talk too much Titan so far.

00:02:47: And the other I think I think petro yours your childhood was totally different we cannot compare it was Franco it all the digital things and all what you can buy and yeah.

00:03:00: No of course not but I would not say that this is a problem because we didn't know it

00:03:08: the otherwise it was just

00:03:11: is it worse I felt Franco I'm sure because I had.

00:03:24: Good parents I had no problems with my parents and.

00:03:33: You call app in a special situation make you take it for granted and you take the things as they are and white of course we had no television.

00:03:45: We didn't know what was television so Street

00:03:56: read away.

00:03:59: Things to play with we had our friends and that was ok and then books and we had way Joe and we had music so wonderful

00:04:08: everything was fine and in which year sweetheart I think you'll grow up and calls where you said.

00:04:17: Yes what is in the in the 50th of cities of 60 and 48.

00:04:25: Wire-free three-and-a-half years after World War second year

00:04:34: I didn't think you would with the time that there must have been or that there was something like a war but when you are 3 years old 4 years old vs old.

00:04:47: You don't think of that because everything was good the city was working

00:04:54: you had enough to eat I think this is important you have to enough to eat yeah no problem at all I had always too feeling I didn't have rich parents

00:05:06: it was always enough here and the war.

00:05:12: I'm you later was only that the castle was turned down and was completely black buying.

00:05:21: The bonding beside still remember the ruins of the castle and today the cast list big puzzle

00:05:38: on the other side of the street where I live where the French Barracks and the French way of course the allies

00:05:47: and efficiently the occupants that nobody like that about them young man

00:05:56: good-looking young man wonderful so that was the west of it and then I remember the soldiers called us to the.

00:06:09: And set.

00:06:15: Please bring us beer in summertime and ice cream in summertime go to the DTS and Dolby the running with 4 and 5 and 6 years and

00:06:26: buying for them ice cream and

00:06:30: and also a little bit of ice cream.

00:06:37: It was never an enemy for me.

00:06:45: But it sounds too that you have got to have been a company at the street with other children of course they're playing in the street.

00:06:54: I think there's a different thing to Italian stew photo to the day this really playing together I think when I was a child at 4

00:07:03: because I grew up in the gdr and it was a little bit of protected space because you couldn't put children and

00:07:11: takes them away or something like that they didn't have.

00:07:14: Today people are afraid of it and then there was a bit of freedom for the children to play outside together and to go through the forest or where else.

00:07:26: That was the same with as we could I never remember that.

00:07:32: Just found out playing and that was all and we did we get we went to school on our own.

00:07:42: In the first class I don't remember that my mother took me to the school.

00:07:50: The first or second class never probably she was helping me to find my way once or twice and to say this is a bit.

00:08:00: Rosea at the Tramways you have to be careful or things like that I do not remember but

00:08:07: don't remember the later in school

00:08:10: ever took me to school as I can see you today when I'm sometimes out of the window and see mother or father with the children going to school together.

00:08:22: All these things on our own.

00:08:29: Interesting lean on Rachel what what is it what was it like for you and the time.

00:08:37: For me I was born in the mid 60s and so my my childhood was growing up in what I remember in the 1970s.

00:08:46: Where the UK was was kind of suffering a little bit.

00:08:53: From you know from an economic depression I guess during that type and so we have lots of.

00:09:03: We didn't have a lot of money my parents don't have a lot of money they work very hard though you know and we had a big family

00:09:12: and but but like Petra IRA member having a lot of freedom as a child

00:09:18: and you know and during the school holidays for instance we would need to go out and pack a lunch and take our bikes and would be off and would be gone all day.

00:09:28: I'm having a fantastic Adventures and them and come back at tea time.

00:09:35: And you know and undead be you know that they'd be a few of us have be me and my brother's but you know they'll be other kids who left them here live nearby who would who would come along as well.

00:09:47: And then.

00:09:50: Yeah it's that thing that you said branko it's kind of you just take your child for granted you think your life is like everybody's life.

00:10:00: And it's not until you get older and maybe into.

00:10:05: High School where you realise actually though there are differences you know the differences between

00:10:11: how families live and the types of houses people live in and things like that you know but when you're very small I think it's.

00:10:21: You just accept what you have and did I had I had a very happy childhood

00:10:30: I think when I was you know when when we were young we didn't have a lot but we it was rich in other ways it was in the you know in our play.

00:10:42: The adventures that we would we would have bits

00:10:46: I mean I remember that lots of we have lots of power cuts so the electricity would go off a lot because because of the economic situation they didn't have enough fuel

00:10:58: fuel the power stations and so they would turn them off at certain time so you would have certain times in the week where you had no power.

00:11:08: And I'm so when we get a power cut up here which we do because of the weather mainly.

00:11:15: I always it's I get a nostalgic feeling about

00:11:19: light a candle and play cards or takes me back to my childhood

00:11:29: when you tell me this Rachel this happened

00:11:32: very often in the 60s 70s in Scotland and I must say we were really lucky even in the 50s I don't remember something like.

00:11:44: Power cut in st. elsewhere remember and when I tell this sometimes people today they're always wonder and this is what I tell it now

00:11:56: we had a refrigerator but it was still cold not

00:12:02: Buddhist art as Macaulay today in in German but it was a nice

00:12:08: really an ice rice box yeah

00:12:16: ice in it and remember it and it was completely normal and

00:12:22: it was not something we are so backward or something like this no you don't know it in a different way and I will remember the man came I don't know how I

00:12:34: came from the street with his middle

00:12:39: car what is this cold so I don't know if you'd like to Fox and he had the plug

00:12:52: George ice block.

00:12:55: Between these forks up to the to the second floor with the icebox of my mother and then it was put into the decision taken anymore and we had an refrigerator but I never thought of this

00:13:13: what's just like that and I remember our first washing machine.

00:13:21: Everywhere sitting in front of the washing machine with the round

00:13:28: watching it as a television we did the same machine

00:13:38: I mean and I think about it now because my mother had 5 Children and no washing machine and yeah you know how would you cope these days.

00:13:49: Yeah my mother too she had to she boil the water in a huge pot

00:13:56: put the all the the laundry in it and then later she had carried into the bathroom into the that was incredible that was really ill I mean nobody talked about it it was ok

00:14:16: kissing is possibly in the end

00:14:23: I remember loving washing day.

00:14:28: Because we would be because because we would have this old mango and it's basically two two rollers

00:14:38: but you yeah the wind and the material the fabric or the whatever you've washed goes through and squeezes all the water out and yeah I have a memory of really clear memory.

00:14:49: Doing the mangle and there you know my brother's at the other end pulling pulling the sheets out.

00:14:56: Und German be call it normal to be able to drop and go

00:15:01: when would I hear when we are talking now because our time is gone.

00:15:10: What is the time could it is not important when you grow up you need is this freedom the more freedom you can get on at unit enough to eat there's this normal the other sing it is the same very when you grow

00:15:25: the life for the mothers changed a lot we need to say

00:15:29: Mrs a very huge process for the mothers that it's not so heavy and so much anymore and this is good important and

00:15:43: enabled women to have careers and

00:15:50: yeah so I would seem what time is gone I'm very sorry we could talk now longer and longer I think I don't know maybe we go on with it one day thank you so much for all that you are here thank you Rachel and Franco and I see you all our listeners

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