Culture was passed down for most of history, now it moves laterally

 Children rarely want their parents’ past, but worlds they discover themselves and ones they can share with their friends, writes Colin Sheridan

Millie Bobby Brown attends the ‘Stranger Things 5’ special screening in London; the streaming show has brought 1980s culture and music to modern audiences. Picture: Nicholas T Ansell

Lecturing your kids about how life was somehow harder and better back in the good old days is a birthright of parenthood.

Children understand very little of what you repeat ad nauseum by way of instruction, yet somehow, they tolerate this little quirk of ego and forgive it.