While travelling and on flights over the past couple of weeks, I have encountered more children than ever before. It seems that staying home for school holidays is no longer an option, everybody is on the road. Parents with several kids struggle to hold them together and it is a great moment to observe the families of today. Father and child in printed T-shirts, mother and daughter in denim and beige knits, brother and sister in sibling workwear. Grandmother and granddaughter are also seen in magnificent matching glitter. Public expressions of endearment with kissing, cuddling and hugging, tender moments while waiting in line without being on-line. Is this the result of parenting during covid when people finally really discovered their kids? Age differences seem non-consequential and the dynamics of being together are at work 24/7 with the remarkable return of card and board games as well as book reading. Where are the phones?   

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