Childhood

The Less Sugar We Get as Babies, the Better Our Health Is Decades Later

Researchers have found that people exposed to less sugar in the womb and as infants are less likely to develop health problems like diabetes decades later.

Health Ed Cara Oct 31

YouTube Vlogger Ruby Franke Charged With Six Counts of Felony Child Abuse

Ruby Franke was charged with child abuse alongside her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt after her children were found with lacerations on their extremities.

Crime Nikki Main Sep 7

Pediatricians Warn Weighted Baby Sleep Sack May Cause SIDS

A weighted sleep blanket for infants could be deadly, national pediatricians warn in an open letter.

Tech News Nikki Main Jun 16

Engineers Built a Sturdy House Out of Dirty Diapers

Could the soiled disposable diapers of yesterday become a sustainable building material of tomorrow?

Conservation Lauren Leffer May 19

Back to the Mines: Iowa Senate Moves to Legalize Child Labor in Pre-Dawn Session

A new Republican bill would let Iowa kids work 6-hour night shifts, get jobs in factories, and serve alcohol.

Tech News Thomas Germain Apr 18

Banning Coding Books Will Only Make Parents Fight Harder for Them

The CEO of Girls Who Code writes that book bans only expose the hypocrisy of those imposing them and calls for parents to fight back.

Tech News Reshma Saujani Sep 29

SIDS Is Still a Tragic Mystery, Despite Claims the ‘Cause’ Has Been Found

Early media coverage of a new SIDS study is a clear-cut example of bad science journalism.

Health Ed Cara May 17

Extreme Rainfall Has Been Linked With Low Birth Weight in Babies

Increasing extreme weather events is wreaking havoc across the globe, and may be harming the health of newborn babies in some of the world’s most remote and vulnerable populations. New research published Monday in Nature Sustainability finds a strong link between extreme rainfall events in the Amazon, which have been supercharged by climate change, and…

Earther Molly Taft Mar 1

Why Stephen King Wants Adults To Remember How They Thought As Kids

Stephen King’s dark imagination as an adult always makes people wonder what the hell happened to him as a kid. But King didn’t have that unusual of a childhood. He’s more interested in everyone else’s curiosity about how he grew up and their assumption that something horrific must have happened for him to write about…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 13

The Disgustingly Awesome World of the ‘Double Dare’ Obstacle Course

Our friends at The A.V. Club just published an insanely awesome oral history of the obstacle course from Nickelodeon’s classic game show Double Dare, and it’s chock-full of icky, messy fun. This look behind-the-scenes comes is timed right: Nickelodeon is airing a one-night only Double Dare special on Wednesday to celebrate the show’s 3oth anniversary. The obstacle…

Tech News Christina Warren Nov 22

The New Ghostbusters Didn’t Ruin My Childhood Because That’s Not How the Progression of Time Works

Apparently some people are angry that the new Ghostbusters movie has “ruined their childhood.” But I must confess that this came as a shock to me. Because either these people discovered a way to travel back to the 1980s… or they don’t understand how the simple progression of time works. You see, I was born…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 14

Halloween Still Smells Like a Plastic Pumpkin Pail

I was never a pillowcase kid. Fill the sheets that I put my head on with the goods, risking an errant Mr. Goodbar besmirching my sleeping quarters? No thanks. Besides, a pillowcase would need to go in the wash eventually. My plastic pumpkin was a dedicated trick-or-treating device. And somehow, it managed to stay candy…

Tech News Alissa Walker Oct 31

This supercut of Disney movies is basically a time machine to the 90’s

There’s a stupid obsession with the 90’s that’s weird because the 90’s were pretty boring and really just speaks to our base desires of wanting to re-live childhood because all of us are old and slowly deteriorating into dust. But still, even cold hearted me can appreciate this supercut of Disney movies from the 90’s.…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 10

Scientifically accurate Pinky & the Brain reveals the cruel hidden truth

In following Pinky and the Brain’s hilariously cursed cartoon quest to take over the world, we kids get to see a story about the classic odd couple and the funny hijinks they run into. What we don’t see is the truth that adults willfully ignore: that lab rats live a miserable life and would totally…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 16

Watching this cute animation makes me all nostalgic and tingly inside

I think this animation should totally be a test to see if you’re a decent human being who remembers the 80’s or 90’s: if you have feelings of nostalgia or get some tingles when you see some of these animations, you’re a human! If you don’t, you’re a sad robot (or a sucker who wasn’t…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 18

This neat animation makes me miss my childhood gadgets so much

Here is some guaranteed nostalgia for you. Follow the life of a Game Boy in this wonderful animation: watch it get assembled in a factory and packaged for an excited kid and see it get played by youthful thumbs and then eventually be tossed away by a teenager. It’s every toy’s story. Throughout its journey…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 2

Adult-sized child made a street legal Little Tikes Car that goes 70mph

Do you know what the most disappointing thing about being an adult is? It’s not the slow metabolism or the achy joints or the plateau of growth, it’s the fact that we’re all failures to our childhood selves. We don’t eat candy, we don’t play with toys and we drive responsible vehicles. Not John Bitmead…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 31

It’s Only Mr. T! 30 Years Of Toys Confiscated From London Schools

Yeah, it’s easy to romanticize the past, but there’s something almost sweet about Confiscation Cabinets, an exhibition at the V&A’s Museum of Childhood showing 30 years’ worth of contraband swiped from kids at over 150 schools in London. Teacher and artist Guy Tarrant collected a lot of the ephemera himself, with the rest donated for…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Dec 17

Recreating pictures from your childhood as an adult is always great

Two thoughtful sons came up with a wonderful gift for their mom: they would recreate old childhood photographs of themselves, from 20 years ago, as adults. They would visit the same spots as the pictures, wear similar clothes as their kid self once did, pose the same way as they did two decades ago, and…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 19

This 8-Bit Video Will Make You Miss Your Childhood in the 90’s

It’s every generation’s responsibility to grow old and become cranky at the next generation while talking about how growing up back then was so much more fun than growing up today. THESE KIDS KNOW NOTHING. All they do is stare at iPads and play crappy games by swiping on giant phones. At least we 90’s…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 22

Childhood

The Less Sugar We Get as Babies, the Better Our Health Is Decades Later

YouTube Vlogger Ruby Franke Charged With Six Counts of Felony Child Abuse

Pediatricians Warn Weighted Baby Sleep Sack May Cause SIDS

Engineers Built a Sturdy House Out of Dirty Diapers

Back to the Mines: Iowa Senate Moves to Legalize Child Labor in Pre-Dawn Session

Banning Coding Books Will Only Make Parents Fight Harder for Them

SIDS Is Still a Tragic Mystery, Despite Claims the ‘Cause’ Has Been Found

Extreme Rainfall Has Been Linked With Low Birth Weight in Babies

Why Stephen King Wants Adults To Remember How They Thought As Kids

The Disgustingly Awesome World of the ‘Double Dare’ Obstacle Course

The New Ghostbusters Didn’t Ruin My Childhood Because That’s Not How the Progression of Time Works

Halloween Still Smells Like a Plastic Pumpkin Pail

This supercut of Disney movies is basically a time machine to the 90’s

Scientifically accurate Pinky & the Brain reveals the cruel hidden truth

Watching this cute animation makes me all nostalgic and tingly inside

This neat animation makes me miss my childhood gadgets so much

Adult-sized child made a street legal Little Tikes Car that goes 70mph

It’s Only Mr. T! 30 Years Of Toys Confiscated From London Schools

Recreating pictures from your childhood as an adult is always great

This 8-Bit Video Will Make You Miss Your Childhood in the 90’s

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