In some ways, the 1970s was a golden age of childhood. With mom back at work, the smothering overparenting of the 1950s was impossible, while the 'milk carton kid'-fueled stranger danger of the 1980s ...

DOES ANYONE remember clackers? One of the most basic – not to say genitally suggestive – toys of the 1970s comprised two plastic spheres, each suspended from a string attached to the same plastic tab.

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So much for the iPad generation. Despite reports that children are wasting their hours staring at computer screens, gradually letting their brains wither to mush, it seems this is actually not the ...

Ah, the early 1970s. A time when cars may or may not have had seat belts, and there were certainly no car seats for the little ones to ride safely. A time when one of the hottest toys were the ...

Modern kids: you can keep your Pokémon, your wi-fi devices and your 'video' games. Back in the day all they had were Clackers. Good, old-fashioned, potentially deadly Clackers. This clip is from ...

While picking up the 789 smaller-than-an-atom LEGOs from my living room floor the other day, I had a thought every parent probably has at some point: “Whoever came up with these devilish weapons ...

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The X Factor Saturday, ITV No stars, nada, as befits a show which has produced none of its own Danny And The Human Zoo ...

"Meet Clackers the class bear, Gabriel’s got him for the weekend,” said my friend Amanda, as we trudged up the hill to the Iron Age fort with the kids early on Sunday morning. Ah, I thought, that ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta-The Bandung City education agency has issued a circular that restricts school students from bringing and playing with ball clackers or locally known as ‘lato-lato’, which has gained ...