- Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modeling clay for children and re-branded it.
- In the 1940s, a retired schoolteacher came up with Candy Land to entertain children who were hospitalized from polio. Because its color system required no reading, young kids could easily play.
- Scooby Doo’s real first name is Scoobert.
- Before 1913, parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s—through the postal service.
- At around the 28th week of pregnancy, babies can begin to smell the same smells as their mother. In fact, the amniotic fluid enhances a baby’s sense of smell.
- If babies’ bodies grew at the same rate as their brains, they would weigh 170 pounds by the time they turn 1 month old.
- When researchers offered kids broccoli or a chocolate bar, four out of five kids picked the chocolate, but when an Elmo sticker was placed on the broccoli, fifty percent chose the broccoli. (NutritionFacts.org)
- Mozart’s kids used to taunt him by playing incomplete scales on the piano forcing him to rush downstairs and complete them.
- You might know a or a soccer mom, but do you know a ‘lawnmower’ mom… who goes to whatever lengths are necessary to mow down adversity, struggle, or failure for her child.
- “Mickey Mouse” was the secret password used by Allied intelligence officers leading up to the D-Day invasion of 1944.