Grandma's Been There
Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.
Grandma's Been There
The Brooklyn Book of Baby and Child Care
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Siobhan Barry
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Season 1
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Episode 6
In the 1950s, a copy of Dr. Benjamin Spock’s book, Baby and Child Care could be found in practically every household. Dr. Spock encouraged parents to trust their own instincts. Did that strategy work? Listen to today’s story and you tell me.
