From May 18 to September 17, 2023 "When I see the children of today who complain, I, who can compare with what was before... They don't know the difference with then". The difference, how different life is, and especially childhood, in the course of barely two generations, is something that draws the attention of those who have lived all these years, but also of those who have not lived them and, therefore, For the first time, he looks out the window of a past that is close in time, but at the same time remote. In this exhibition the two cases are brought together: the students of the last years of primary education at this school have interviewed their grandparents and grandmothers about what their life was like when they were the age their grandchildren are today. They have discovered, with astonishment, that childhood has not always been like the one they know, while their elders have wholeheartedly shared the joys and sorrows of a time when they had nothing material, but in which life was governed by a concept that made it more bearable: humanity. It is not surprising that this difference also surprises the elderly. How can we have lost something so precious, humanity, to replace it with something as poor as the material? We do not have an answer to this question, but perhaps the clues lie in the answers that these grandparents gave to two questions asked by their grandchildren: What do the children of today have that you did not have? "Good luck, for having been born at a time when they lack nothing." This answer, perhaps, is a good summary. Most of the testimonies collected highlighted the current abundance compared to the scarcity experienced in those years: “I didn't have anything, not even a sofa to sit on, there were only chairs. There were no toys, no technology, we had much less variety to eat than you have now…”. What did you have that today's children do not have? In this case, after a pause of bewilderment and disbelief, most of the time a surprising answer emerged: “Freedom”. Understood as the ability to go out in the street in a gang and play until the sun went down and, if it was summer, until late at night, without fear of the dangers that today prevent this solace from our childhood, who takes refuge in a leisure based on new technologies without hardly leaving home. This exhibition is the result of the research work of our students, of a dozen intergenerational conversations, in which communication has helped children between the ages of 10 and 12 to compare their childhood with that of their elders and understand that They are indeed very lucky.