After World War II, leaving food on your plate wasn’t just frowned upon—it could mean punishment.

Compared with parenting styles today, kids raised in the 1950s were taught very different life lessons and expected to cultivate independence in ways that were often harsher. Parents back then ...

I was a slacker parent in the 1950 s and ’60s. As a dyed-in-the-wool slacker, I wasn’t surprised when the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy , recently reported that “… 48% of the ...