Compared with parenting styles today, kids raised in the 1950s were taught very different life lessons and expected to cultivate independence in ways that were often harsher. Parents back then ...

In today’s households, parents are more likely to encourage balanced eating habits and listen to a child’s hunger cues. But in the 1950s, the rules at the dinner table were far stricter. Children were ...

I was a slacker parent in the 1950 s and ’60s. As a dyed-in-the-wool slacker, I wasn’t surprised when the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy , recently reported that “… 48% of the ...