Anyone who’s ever set foot in the “girl” aisle of Toys R Us knows that modern toy manufacturers like to assign pink for girl-toys and anything but pink (usually blue or black or camouflage) for boy-toys. Nowadays everything is color-coded,… Read More
On Friday I wrote about some bizarre (to us) eighteenth-century children’s fashions. What became the dominant fashion for kids of the nineteenth century? Sailor suits. To look at photos and portraits of kids from that century, you’d be forgiven for… Read More
Political philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778), who famously wrote about education and the general innocence of children, fathered five illegitimate children and consigned all of them to an orphanage.… Read More