What Papa says is perfectly true; when we were brought up they went to one extreme, and kept us children in the attics while our parents lived on the first floor; but now it's just the reverse – the lumber room for the parents and the first floor for the children!
И правду говорит папа, что, когда нас воспитывали, была одна крайность -- нас держали в антресолях, а родители жили в бельэтаже; теперь напротив -- родителей в чулан, а детей в бельэтаж.