
14 Things Kids Were Told in the 1960s That Still Don’t Add Up Today
Adults in the 1960s delivered these instructions with complete authority and the logic behind most of them never quite held up.

Adults in the 1960s delivered these instructions with complete authority and the logic behind most of them never quite held up.

The 1960s had very specific ideas about what children should and should not eat, and almost none of it holds up today.

Here are 20 rules that shaped an entire generation of American children and left marks that time has not fully erased.

In the 1960s, children tested their bravery on towering slides that reached scorching temperatures in the sun and dizzying merry-go-rounds that pushed the laws of physics.

While the 1960s are often romanticized as a decade of freedom and rock and roll, the daily lives of children were governed by a surprising amount of discipline.

Childhood in the 1960s was defined by a level of independence that seems nearly impossible in the modern age.