When it came to parenting the ’40s, were moms too easy on their kids? Was being a parent harder than the generation before? Here’s what people said in 1940.
When I was a kid, we had the same desire to loot and pillage and rape as these kids today, we were as savage as kids always are, but at the same time, we knew that our parents and all other grownups were unalterably opposed to it, and we didn’t do it.
The care and training of children A mother writes: “My child, three years old, is so troubled with indigestion that the physician has advised me
Mother, for instance, smells an awful smell. She finds long-dead worms in Johnny’s pocket. Instead of gagging over her dinner and making Johnny feel like a hangman, she embellishes the story for the rest.
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