@matigo Agreed. It was instilled into a lot of my generation through Scouts, Brownies & Guides. Not sure how popular they are nowadays.
It’s a scarily isolating world at times, though I’m lucky to live in a fairly small community - but conversely I don’t have the usual network of Mums whose children have gone through school together, or local work colleagues.
We now have a cohort of youngsters who missed out on valuable socialising thanks to Covid. Some kids fared worse than others, but most people I know say their children/grandchildren were affected to some degree. My younger nephew found it quite hard at times, I think. I do wonder quite what we have done to the next generation - nothing much that’s good!