Children
When Dad Does SFX for a Living
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 18, 2017 -
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Category: Children, Parents, Special Effects
Follies of the Madmen #337
This seems to elide the whole issue of whether a stepchild SHOULD be treated badly! It's just a given!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 27, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Children, 1930s, Face and Facial Expressions
Hothouse Children
Well, that's one theory, I guess...
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 01, 2017 -
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Category: Children, Crackpots, Nineteenth Century
Dawn Langley Simmons
I believe every word that Dawn Langley Simmons says.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 27, 2017 -
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Category: Children, Parents, 1960s, Gender-bending, LGBT
Miss Beverly Hills 1960
In our continuing annals of oddball beauty contests, this 1948 event must qualify as exceptional.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 12, 2017 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Children, 1940s
Murder by Flypaper
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 19, 2017 -
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Category: Death, Scary Criminals, Children, 1930s
How many ways are children annoying?
Back in 1931, Dr. Mandel Sherman, director of the Child Research Centre, wanted to find out the exact number of ways in which children annoy their parents. He came up with the oddly specific number of 2,124 different ways.He arrived at this number by having a group of parents carry notebooks around with them for a week and record each time their child annoyed them.
Some of the ways in which the children annoyed: being disobedient, being too slow or too quick, not being neat, primping, etc.
Personally, I think he seriously lowballed that number.
We've encountered the work of Dr. Sherman before. Back in 2009, I posted about his advice that instead of training kids to be successful in life, we should train them to accept the inevitability of failure. That way, they'll be much happier when they actually do end up as mediocre flops.
The New York Times - Jan 30, 1931
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 20, 2017 -
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Category: Psychology, Children, Parents, 1930s
Berry Pink, the Marble King
Weird name, unusual hobby.
Original article here.
Home page of current company founded by Berry Pink.
Samples of their marbles, and more history.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 11, 2017 -
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Category: Games, Children, 1920s, 1930s
Beulah Miller, the Girl with X-Ray Vision
Very proud to have a resident of my native Rhode Island exhibit this uncanny power.
Although not everyone was so positive, as the NYT coverage from April 23, 193, shows.
Original article here.
Further coverage here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 03, 2017 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Children, 1910s
THE WAY OUT RECORD by Bruce Haack
Wikipedia page here.
Thanks to pal Lawrence Person.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 29, 2017 -
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Category: Music, Children, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s
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