Ello and welcome back to another formative post. This week is all about fun and games. More specifically, 1950’s games and the children that created them.

The history of games in the 1950’s has a history. In more specific words, the games of the 1950’s were simple and relied on only things you could find around the house. Children had to entertain themselves as there was no one around to do it for them.

As I was in my orthodontist appointment earlier this week my hygienist, another hygienist, another patient, and myself we’re having a discussion about the 1990s. They were reminiscing on all the good parts of the 90s and the technology of the time. We were all discussing what our childhoods were like it sparked a thought in my mind that in the 90s, parents were more involved with children and in the 1950s, children were left to deal with themselves.

This made me think about my childhood. What did I have in common with the children of the 1950s? More than I thought actually! We both were mostly left to our own devises and the mistakes we made we suffered the natural consequences. For example, putting two people on two skateboards sitting down, and going down a large hill holding hands was a bad idea because the skateboards want to go in two different directions. The natural consequence of this is that you crash and get injured.

We definitely also had things not in common. I hated wearing dresses and from a young age didn’t feel gender roles were really something I liked. I would not have done well in the 50s because of this.

In conclusion, the children of the 50s had a childhood that was relatively unique to them except for some aspects.