I can't understand what the first sentense means. What were the parents keeping in mind? "When I was my step-daughter's age, I remember my own parents saying to me all the time 'You've never had it so good', but I could never quite understand what was so good about it. There was the music - the Beatles and the Rolling Stones - and the new fashions, mini-skirts of course, but they didn't really change much for most of us. I've got a job when I left school, a real dead-end job it was, too. I was working in horrible office, nine-to-five, or more like eight-to-six, and in the evenings we had dinner and watched TV - black and white, of course."