Barring tragedies, children in these years inhabit a sheltered, more benign world and fortunate parents enjoy visiting rights.
Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave.
The Thousand Oaks teen center, where I played youth basketball and participated in debate competitions, was turned into a place where the fortunate parents would be reunited with their children.
If you aren't so fortunate, your parents grit their teeth and send you to the neighborhood school, chosen for you based on nothing but your ZIP code.
I'm supremely fortunate my parents gave me an upbringing that prepared me for the life most of us must now live.
"That thIng is bigger than mine!" Followashris Edwards on Twitter.
I think virtually for the first eight weeks I didn't do much else but feed... mum did the grocery shopping or [partner] did the grocery shopping, mum did the washing... so I was fortunate, my parents live up the road... (primiparous, metropolitan, private, postnatal).
He was raised by his grandfather, he said gnomically, because "I wasn't very fortunate on the parent side of things.
"We are unique and fortunate that our parent companies gave us a way of investing a large amount of money in infrastructure before the demand was there".
Moreover, watching compulsive hoarders may make spectators feel fortunate that a parent, a partner or even themselves do not suffer such acute symptoms.
I am incredibly fortunate, because my parents pay my accommodation fees.
