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Dec 23, 2017
Watch: Orphan babies were leased to college home-ec classes to train aspiring mothers
As recently as the 1960s, universities like Cornell were home to babies for months or years at a time
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Dec 21, 2017
Why practice with a plastic doll when you can borrow a crying orphan?
As recently as the 1960s…
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Celeste Allen
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Jun 5, 2017
‘Alice in Wonderland’ changed literature forever, by not trying to teach kids, just entertain them
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Stephanie Buck
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Mar 31, 2017
Gender-neutral baby clothes are actually an old-school approach
Pink, blue, and toddler too
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Rian Dundon
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Mar 23, 2017
These photos of terrified toddlers riding angry sheep are hilarious
In mutton bustin’, just grab wool…
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Stephanie Buck
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Jan 5, 2017
History was not kind to drug-addicted mothers, but that started to change in the 1980s
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Stephanie Buck
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Dec 14, 2016
The weird, rabid history of the Cabbage Patch craze
Parents fighting in the aisles…over dolls
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Nina Renata Aron
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Oct 25, 2016
The humiliation of the American father
How we went from Don Draper to Phil Dunphy
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Nina Renata Aron
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Aug 25, 2016
Caillou is just the latest in a long history of annoying children’s characters
Is it illegal to murder…
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Aug 8, 2016
If you didn’t cry on the first day of kindergarten, chances are you were born after 1980
Why the first day of school stopped being such a thing
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