From paper routes and candy to go-karts and staying outside until dark, these things kids did in the 1950s and 60s bring back a different childhood.

Kids' bedrooms in the 1950s didn't have gaming consoles, tablets, flat-screen TVs, or tangled piles of charging cables next to the bed. Compared with children's rooms today, they were much simpler ...

“Here’s a picture of my wife, Cathy Tantillo, in 1951, in front of her childhood home in Stanton Island, New York,” says Charlie O’Brien. “She was 5 years old at the time and thought that if she ...

Kids who grew up in the 1950s were the first to be fed the Disney diet: "Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams." They thrived on the power of their imaginations while internalizing the ...

Ask a boomer grandparent how kids should be raised, and you'll likely hear some version of "they don't make them like they used to." That's not entirely nostalgia talking. Many parenting habits from ...

When it comes to music, there may not be two eras more different than the 1950s and 1960s. In many ways, the 1960s were a direct response to the decade prior. The time period was trying to push the ...

In a recent post I contended that a major cause of the continuous rise in teens’ suicides from 1950 to 1990 was a continuous decline over this period in opportunities for kids to engage in the sorts ...

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