ABSTRACT
Childhood is not merely a transitional phase that people leave behind as they mature to adulthood. As soon as they reach a certain age, as defined by a given culture, they leave this space and pass this space to another cohort of children. This chapter describes the lived experiences and perceived elements of change and continuity vis-à-vis childhoods of children of the three generations namely, children, parents and grandparents. The core of this chapter mainly draws from the “remembered childhoods” of parents and grandparents where each successive generation contrasted their own childhoods with the childhoods lived by the children of today. The chapter highlights that as much as it has changed, childhood has also remained static. It reiterates childhood as a permanent structural form.
