Just don't tell social workers: the harsh life of the kids of the past

In this post we will talk about those times when the concept of "caring for children" had a completely different meaning than it does now. For his new book, "A Retrogid on Parenting: A Past You Probably Won't Believe In," writer Chris Wilde has unearthed some amazing photos.

And while caring women from generations of mommy forums are scouring the apartment in search of ammonia, we can only advise you never to repeat this.

Do you have a light? The boys look like heavy smokers in their bizarrely furnished secret lair.

Kids who can barely lift boxing gloves were placed in an improvised boxing ring in the 1950s.

Synchronized swimming: beginners are taught using a kind of carousel. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1930s.

Babies are "dried" on a rope, and it seems they are not happy about it.

A woman hides her children in a closet during a German air raid on London.

The brothers left the baby in an empty trash can while they were playing.

Children in front of a quartz lamp in 1938, after the publication of studies indicating the benefits of its use for the treatment of chest infections and anemia.

Children sleep in the open air on the roof of the school for orphans.

A baby is breathing fresh air in a cage hung out of the window.

"Driver, please be careful with me!": mom just wants her child to give way.