When I was a child, back in the Parenting Stone Age (a.k.a. the Parentocentric Era), your parents were the most important people in the family. They paid the bills, bought your clothes, prepared the ...

Picture a classroom that smells like chalk and floor wax, where milk cartons sweat on the lunch line and seat belts are optional. Advice in the 1950s felt rock solid; parents, doctors, and teachers ...

If you grew up in the 1950s, your childhood probably included at least one treasured collection carefully stashed in a shoebox, cigar tin, or dresser drawer. From sports heroes to shiny pocket change, ...

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 ...

Here’s a favorite childhood memory, and other memorable downtown Lancaster thoughts from the mid-1950s. I remember catching the 10:14 bus (that’s the time it stopped at Roseville Road and Lititz Pike) ...

Have you ever seen a kid take a marker or crayons to a phone or iPad? If so, you might be able to imagine what it was like to see kids of the 1950s drawing all over the fantastic new technology of the ...