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Why today's parents are the unluckiest in history

A parent purchases books from a street vendors ahead school opening. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

I’m just sitting here trying to remember what I was like in Standard Four, you know, trying to recall whether 10-year-old me was thinking about boys or toys.

I think I’d have to go with toys because one, I was a late bloomer, and two, the Internet was not a thing. Those were the days when television programming started at 4pm and ended at 12am.

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