This side exhibit was put together by Group A: Julia, Carrie, John, Khadyajah, and Lizzie One of the newest crazes in school-age children is the Stanley water bottles. The cups are large and colorful, and they’re popping up all over schools across much of the country. These cups cost about $45. There are many reports…Continue Reading “Peer Pressure” & Children’s Consumerism
Gallery 201A Side Exhibition
Changing perspectives on Child Sexuality in the U.S. During and Since the Twentieth Century This side exhibit was put together by Group A: Julia, Carrie, John, Khadyajah, and Lizzie. “Modernism Gone Mad”: Sex Education Comes to Chicago, 1913 Written by Jeffrey P. Moran “Certainly, it is important for the growing child to know his own…Continue Reading Gallery 201A Side Exhibition
Moral Panics and Consumption
Moral Panic: an instance of public anxiety or alarm in response to a problem regarded as threatening the moral standards of society. Oxford Dictionary According to Buckingham, “the recent wave of concern around childhood obesity” has reached a new wave of ‘moral panic’ (Buckingham, 2004, p. 105). I know that throughout my adult life, I’ve…Continue Reading Moral Panics and Consumption
Gallery 105A Side Exhibition
The Impact of Negative Childhood Experiences (Bullying, Hate, Enviornmental Influences) Childhood Hate: Bullying seems to be a force to reckon with as it occurs on many platforms. This can be in school or even online. Anti bullying activists and others have worked to break this trend. As discussed in the main museum exhibit this week,…Continue Reading Gallery 105A Side Exhibition
Gallery 104 Main Exhibition
History of American Childhoods, Part 1 Curated by: Carrie, Lizzie, Jack, Khadyajah, and Julia “A Puritan childhood is as alien to twenty-first century Americans as an Indian childhood was to seventeenth-century New Englanders”- S. Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood Mintz, S. (2004). Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood. Chapters 1 –…Continue Reading Gallery 104 Main Exhibition