Why is Everybody Nostalgic About the 80s?
One interesting thread I’ve seen in many of the current screen/free play debates is the notion that growing up in the 70s/80s was a kind of youth utopia and children should be “free” (i.e., forced, possibly by government regulation) to return to those halcyon days. This is curious as, growing up during those years myself, I remember them very well. Neither parents nor children viewed those years as utopia. And government statistics generally found that youth who grew up during this period had some of the worst behavioral outcomes on record. So why are people so nostalgic?
