Have you ever watched a baby, once he’s learned to sit up, how he sits with beautiful posture, keeping his back perfectly perpendicular to the…
Back in the good old days, a few decades ago, when school let out for the year, kids had a whole long summer stretched ahead…
It’s the 85th birthday this year of one of the most durable dolls in toy history, Raggedy Ann, and in Arcola Illinois, the birthplace of…
It’s springtime, and the playgrounds are finally un-thawed and ready for games. Here’s Kevin Shortsleeve with some thoughts about one of the ways kids choose up sides.
Tomorrow is Monopoly Day, celebrating the world ‘s best-selling board game. Since its development during the height of the American Depression in 1934 by Pennsylvanian…
Today we’re celebrating the day the clamp-on roller skate was patented — a truly important invention in the history of childhood because it gave kids…
I remember on Saturday afternoons, in my old neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, the windows would be open, weather permitting, and from them…
On June 18, 1744, the following advertisement appeared in the London Penny Morning Post: [Published] According to [an] Act of Parliament: a Little Pretty Pocket…
It’s June, and one day very soon that school bell will ring for the last time, signaling the beginning of summer vacation! Over the past…
The day my brother and I decided to make homemade walkie talkies, I was nine and it was 1953. Ordinarily we didn’t have much to…