Maybe it's the rose-coloured spectacles, but it seems to me that people didn't feel so entitled to whinge about their lot back in the day. They just got on with it. I know what you mean about saving face but in ways, I think it can be a good thing. If we'd told teachers or social workers what went on in our house, we'd surely have been removed from the home and as bad as it was, it was a damn sight better than what happened to a lot of kids in the care of the system.
Maybe it's the rose-coloured spectacles, but it seems to me that people didn't feel so entitled to whinge about their lot back in the day. They just got on with it. I know what you mean about saving face but in ways, I think it can be a good thing. If we'd told teachers or social workers what went on in our house, we'd surely have been removed from the home and as bad as it was, it was a damn sight better than what happened to a lot of kids in the care of the system.