A Pinch of the Past: Children and Education Throughout History

The audio version of this Pinch of the Past was first shared in Episode 32: Guest Jody Hedlund & a Review of Shadows in the Mind’s Eye by Janyre Tromp

Today’s Pinch of the Past … started as a look at traditions in raising children and somehow morphed into the practices of children in relation to schools throughout history.

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 A Pinch of the Past: American Staples

The audio version of this Pinch of the Past was first shared in Episode 31: Guest Karen Barnett & a Review of Where the Road Bends by Rachel Fordman.

This Pinch of the Past was first share in Episode 31: You can access it here. The idea of this Pinch of the Past developed in a rather curious way yesterday when I was wrapping up the final tests of the year for my second graders. One reading passage was a nonfiction piece on the origins of Peanut Butter. Did you know the inventor and developer of this great nutty paste was also responsible for a famous cereal brand? He developed the supplement not as a snack food but as a health product?

Peanut Butter

“It’s the Great Depression that makes the PB&J the core of childhood food,” food historian Andrew F. Smith has said. Buyenlarge / Getty Images
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