In a now-viral Instagram post from last year, Nebraska mom Markay Cunningham narrates a typical summer day for kids in the ’90s: Food was a box of ice pops plopped on the ground, water came from the ...

New York subscribers got exclusive early access to this story in our Brooding newsletter. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. In this year’s run-up to summer break, parents have been nostalgic for ...

For the generation that grew up in the '90s, it can feel like it was worlds apart from how we live in the present. Steeped in nostalgia and a general sense of optimism about the world, it was the ...

From pizza bagels to Hamburger Helper, these 1990s middle-class meals were all the rage when kids got home from school.

While parenting styles and childhood experiences from the 1990s are more nuanced than only discussions about technology and phones, there's no denying that research suggests kids who have phones ...

The model and cookbook author shared photos of "things [she's] been missing lately," and they're absolutely nostalgia-inducing Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He ...