Luther Emmett Holt wrote a book called “The Care and Feeding of Children”, in 1884 . In his book he talked about “airing out children”, or simply put, providing children with fresh air. Busy parents took a shortcut and purchased cages for the children to sit in outside of high rises and tall apartment buildings rather than actual walks in the park or strolls down the street.
So on any given day you could see babies hung out windows over busy streets without a safety care in the world.
FYI: The cages were invented in the United States in 1922 but took off big time in London.
Just how clean was that air the adults were breathing anyway?
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It was really polluted
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And Michael Jackson got harassed for hanging one baby off a balcony? My how times have changed. I guess it’s all relative. Not as bad as dropping babies just so you can catch them I suppose.
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I believe there is something in the form of swinging baby yoga or baby aerobics as well. It all has to do with spinning the baby haphazardly around and around, …just like the “dropping” you mentioned.
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And don’t forget the jumping over babies thing
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Yeah, the dropping is worse but still you would think 🤔 putting babies in a cage multiple stories up is not the best idea o.O
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