It’s not the children who’ve changed it’s the parenting. Kids aren’t so different these days, they’re still innocent and full of joy if they’re allowed to be. It’s the parents who are responsible for what the kids are and sadly lots don’t have time to bring them up in the old ways with everyone working longer and longer and even grandparents working past retirement.

Having a lovely little stroll through the country. Oblivious to the fact that thousands of people from a future world are watching the replay on technology that could only be imagined as science fiction.

This was so heartwarming ❤! Beautifully spoken child .

R.I.P England. I miss you.

How lovely on so many levels!

That was brilliant !

This takes me back to the 70s when i used to go out for long walks in the countryside with my grandad and sometimes i could take a friend along as well. Happy memories indeed 😊😊

She's adorable ☺

The innocence of young children , priceless 😊❤

The simplicity of the past is so beyond pleasant.

This made me smile and warmed my heart Robbie and his wee companion just enjoying the countryside hope all that is not built on now most of where I used to play and walk as a kid back then has gone .

We've brought our daughter up in the same way as this delightful little girl. Giving your time to your children, showing love, teaching manners, fun & laughter is the greatest gift you can give...& it lasts forever.

So delightful. And what a simple thing to enjoy, a walk. She won't need much to have a happy life.

Wonderful times ❤

A short clip of times past. Such a happy go lucky girl with Fyfe. Sun shining and not a care in the world. I was 6 in 1971 and life was much ' simpler' and we had our freedom to go running all about. Different times, different people. Was life better then? For me i think YES.

Aw how lovely.

I love Fyffe, great to see him again!

This makes me nostalgic for when my grandparents used to take me round sutton park for a walk back in the 80s as a kiddo.

So sweet!

this clip is so real i cant bear it without tearing up

I have a nearly 6 year old son, who is just as chatty/was as chatty as a younger age (too much at times ;) ...), this little girl in '71 is no different. The one major difference I've noticed, when comparing with today (Nov '22), is somewhat of a lessened conversation between parents and children, now of course I might have witnessed 'quiet time' or something so I'd hate to generalise so quickly. I was/still do ask my son questions about everything...."which way should we go to town?", "how many black cars can we see?", "How would you make that?", etc ,etc. We can all have a well adjusted, well manner'd, inquisitive, etc, etc child, if we put the effort in (which I am seeing the fruits of my labour now slowly coming out).

this is trully lovely & i enjoy listening to the conversation.😊

Kids now are being SOOO lazy considering that one of my cousins was the same age as that little girl. I am 18 and my cousin is 8 and he always is on his phone ALL the time. Also, I have seen toddlers just straight up cry when their tablet is taking away since all kid want now is is just playing games on the computer. Man, times have changed! This is why I want to go back to the 60s and 70s again where adults and kids are WAY more nicer and the music on the radio back then was just fantastic!

Awww, this is beautiful! I was born in that year. Children were so different back then...

Gorgeousness at play .

Watching the " tonight" programme as a child with my parents ,I always looked forward to the Fyffe Robertson reports . There is something magical about his style and voice .

The seductive simplicity of yesteryear. A different era. A glorious era. Loving BBC Archive more and more...

Lovely

God bless that innocent child.

That was an extended essay in 'awwww'. Would be great if someone knows Louise and sends her the link. (Side note - daffodils in full bloom in May - this year, they were done and dusted by March/April.)

I like it

That cute baby would be in her 50s today 🐱👍🏿

I Love these old clips. A more spacious, peaceful England than today. Bet he wished he never asked her to sing.....ha ha.

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This is how to engage with children - unrushed, interested, engaged, enjoyed, focused

This is just lovely. I have read a lot of negative comments here about today's world. Children have the same potential as ever, they just need to be given time and attention and have their screen time kept in proportion so it is only a small part of their lives. I know children today who are just as lovely and innocent as this.

I love this video and share this quote with you too, “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”. -David Brinkley...

The reason kids can't do this as much anymore is because roads like the one pictured here have been entirely surrendered to cars going at 60 mph, making it unsafe. Adults complain about kids not leaving their homes anymore, but whenever we try and reduce the prominence of cars in our residential areas (such as with Low Traffic Neighbourhoods) those same adults are the ones objecting to such schemes. Our future can look like this again. We can have a culture of kids walking and cycling to school and being independent. We as adults have to kerb our car usage to achieve that.

Beautiful, innocent and idyllic…I remember it well.

Clever warrior 80

Innocent pleasures lost. Now he'd be instantly arrested and held on demand pending investigation for months.

I am enjoying these BBC trips through OUR archives, very much. But sadly, it also reminds us of how much, the quality of programming content, over the intervening years, , has declined.

Looks really peaceful back then i just couldn’t cope with it being black and white all the time

If you want life simple live it simple. Give the interferences a swerve. Some children are ferried from here to there to next place with precious little time left for their own time and inventive, self-driven play. That, in my opinion, is the most important play of all.

It saddens me to think that the world this represents is in so many ways a lot more than 53 years ago. In 'moving on' the world and each and everyone one of us in it seem to have so little idea of what we're 'moving on' to.

Nice to a kid chatting rather being on their phone, and what a nice grandad 👍

I feel kids used to be smarter and more articulate than these days!

Superb. I don’t think she liked him interrupting her singing 😂

How simply lovely! That old gentleman is how I picture Tammylan in Enid Blyton's Cherry Tree Farm and Willow Tree Farm series. These days people would make all sorts of suggestive comments and destroy the innocency of a lovely day in England.

This is really nice :) gotta be a dad someday damnit

wholesome...so tired of modern crap

John Cleese enters the room with the ministry of funny walks

How very sweet and innocent. An England now gone...

Wonderful! I was 25 then, just started my own family. Happy, happy simple days.

:)

only a very few years younger, this is how i remember children, so wonderfully civil back then. then we moved to arizona, where children were expected to throw tantrums. i go from like rupert the bear to yosemite sam.

Funny to think that Louise Todd is now getting letters from SAGA, shows you just how short life is...

Rumour has it she's still walking 🤣 Kids need be more active my pals 5 yr old Comes metal detecting and btl digging with us walks a lot lol

I wonder where the little girl is now.

as long as it´s not lance stroll

It’s a shame we can’t allow them that freedom these days

Looking back life was so much simpler! The lack of technology was such a bonus! 😃

None for the little boy who lives down the lane?

I Wish we could walk like that now days..Its home or bus or car..no fresh air...insulin resistence..and stressed out population. And if we do walk Its not in nature its in a car park or Building..or some cement area ..and rubbish everywhere.

There's something very odd about this film and I'm trying to work out what. Oh I know... there's no traffic!

How parenting has changed in 50 years 😢

people in the comments section complaining about how kids are different these days. of course they're going to be different, the passage of time is unavoidable. maybe you yearn for bygone days and you know they wont come back. and theres nothing wrong with that

Today there would be a pervert hiding behind the corner.

Keep Britain British, breaks my heart we’ll be a minority in your own homeland

Clever warrior 80