People talk about “the Lockdown Generation”, those children born as the world was shutting down because of the pandemic.

We worry the lack of early socialisation might affect them, perhaps causing relationship problems later. I don’t know. I doubt anyone does at this point. But I heard a different take on it from my friend, Barbara.

Her grandson was born just as the world Barbara knew was turned on its head.

“I might have gone crazy with it all,” she told me, “if it hadn’t been for little Connor. He did what babies have always done. He cried, slept, fed, he needed love. Being part of his ‘bubble’ was strange, but helping meet his needs was the familiarity I needed just to get through that time.”

So, let’s hear it for the lockdown babies. They may have done more good, just by being there, than they ever get credit for!