Here's a nostalgic look at 20 childhood habits from the 1960s that many parents once allowed or overlooked, including seatless car rides, candy cigarettes, and unsupervised afternoons.
The 1970s parenting rulebook was a wild mix of total neglect and random strictness that makes no sense now.
The 1950s parenting rulebook banned some things so bizarre that even experts cannot explain the logic today.
The 1950s had a very short list of acceptable child behaviors, and falling off it came with consequences nobody argued about.
The 1960s had very specific ideas about what children should and should not eat, and almost none of it holds up today.
These everyday household rules of the 1960s were completely normal then and almost unrecognizable by any modern standard.