14 Childhood Punishments From the 1960s That Had Reasons Few People Understood
The 1960s had a punishment playbook so strange and severe that even the adults using it could not explain why.
The 1960s had a punishment playbook so strange and severe that even the adults using it could not explain why.
The 1970s parenting rulebook was a wild mix of total neglect and random strictness that makes no sense now.
These 1970s household rules made perfect sense at the time but grow stranger and harder to explain with every passing decade.
The 1970s had a list of fears that seemed reasonable then but look very different today.
These household rules were followed without question for decades before the rest of the world caught up.
The 1960s had very specific ideas about what children should and should not eat, and almost none of it holds up today.