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.
Here’s a look back at some of the sweet vintage Mother’s Day cards – including a few of the 240 million greeting cards just for mom that were sold back in 1959.
Take a look back at ABC television’s family-friendly Friday night offerings back in 1970, which included the hit sitcoms Brady Bunch, Nanny and the Professor & The Partridge Family… and total of 14 kids between the shows.
We know of no earthly reason to believe that autism is a symptom of emotional disturbance stemming from the parents’ attitudes or their handling of the child.
These vintage breastfeeding tips start by saying that no other one thing a mother can do for her baby means more to him than to feed him at her own breast.
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.
Have you ever wondered about Mother’s Day — like how it got started? In the early years of the 20th century, Anna Jarvis started a movement that spread throughout the world: the custom of observing the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
Surprise baby is puzzling doctors – Mother had no idea baby was coming until doctor brought her into the world
Surprise baby is puzzling doctors – Mother had no idea baby was coming until doctor brought her into the world
Kate Mulgrew is going where no woman has gone before — starring as Captain Kathryn Janeway, the first female captain of a Star Trek vessel on TV’s Star Trek: Voyager.
At the age of 33, following the success of her first movie, Goodbye Columbus, and the overwhelming popularity of her second film, Love Story, Ali MacGraw is unmistakably a star.
The first month of the new mother: General advice The average lying-in period for the mother is quite uneventful, at least so far as complications
Breastfeeding the baby By S Josephine Baker, MD Director, Bureau of Child Hygiene, Department of Health, New York City Every once in a while, someone
Parenting advice from long ago: When a baby does not want to sleep, either it has been spoiled and actually trained to be wakeful by a thoughtless mother, or it is in need of medical care.
When raising children, the principle of obedience to proper authority is the foundation of all good citizenship and good government — the very cornerstone of liberty itself.
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
Food most important factor in keeping baby healthy: Mother’s milk safest Feed babies properly and they will grow up healthy and happy While the mother
The Mother of John Q Adams It is said that superior men always have superior mothers, and it certainly seems to be the case in
In some ways new parenthood looks just like it did in the 1940s… and in other ways, it’s pretty different. Here’s a little peek.
If you’re going to buy a children’s cereal, buy the most nourishing. This is the only children’s cereal that meets government standards for a vitamin
It’s a girl! Doctors told Laurie and Jon Steel: “You will never have a baby of your own.” But the young couple refused to accept
Goldie Hawn’s heartbreak choice: Marriage or career Unable to strike a balance between love and work, Goldie is now separated from her second husband —
Modern and old-fashioned baby-rearing methods by Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg Every mother who has but one child realizes how little grandmothers know about the proper care
Work and wear silk stockings — or stay at home and mend baby’s socks? by Idah M’Glone Gibson Feminists contend that married women can find
Mother of ‘twilight sleep’ baby brings message to “martyrs of motherhood” by Mary Boyd, President of the Twilight Sleep Ass’n of New York Two years
Nurse the baby Your protection against trouble Inform yourself through the Health Bureau publications and consult your doctor Artist: Erik Hans Krause for the WPA
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
30 vintage TV dinners: Fried chicken, turkey, pot roast & other fab frozen food, retro-style 
20 vintage pink bathrooms: See some wild bubblegum-era midcentury home decor of the 1950s & 1960s 
US Army shoulder insignia (1945) 
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