How, despite the seeming disconnect between the childhood of Enid Blyton’s characters and our own in India, we found a way to build bridges to the southwest coast of England, the stomping grounds of many Enid Blyton protagonists.
The story of parents lamenting how “spoilt” their children are is an age-old one that repeats with every generation. And it can be read as a comment on the general increase in prosperity and well-being that has been a defining, human macro-trend.
According to psychologist Daniel Berry, when children appear not to be following instructions, what they are following is the biological imperative of making sense of the world around them.