adulthood

Junk food, crisps and fizzy drinks: children and distinctions of taste

“Small wonder that now everyone eats the same junk food and watches the same junk programmes, in a culture where children’s tastes came so conspicuously to dominate.” Quote: Mary Warnock, The Observer, 20 March 1983. Photograph: Science Museum, 1999-278. In the 1980s, newspapers decided to put what children ate on the table. “The children’s economy …

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Roller skates, playfulness, and boundaries of childhood

“We have evolved, it seems, into a generation of Peter Pans, perpetually stuck in adolescence. You see them in Hyde Park: thirty and fortysomethings on rollerblades and skateboards, hanging out in Glastonbury or discussing the merits of Oasis vs Blur at dinner parties” Quote: Dave Green, The Guardian, 25 November 1995. Photograph: Lakeland Motor Museum …

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