Depictions of traditional nuclear families were normal - and normality was celebrated, not shunned. In its early days, editors incorporated Bible stories without controversy or backlash. Highlights became an American tradition by respecting and inculcating tradition. Highlights delivered its billionth copy to a Texas schoolgirl in 2006 and marked its 75th-anniversary last summer with publication reach in more than 40 countries. (Puh-lease, Mom, please donвЂ™t forget the googly-eyes.)ДЇeeling nostalgic? YouвЂ™re not alone. Raise your hand if you memorized the knock-knock jokes, giggled at вЂњGoofus and GallantвЂќ and begged your mom to buy pipe cleaners and popsicle sticks for the magazineвЂ™s craft projects. Who can forget spending hours hunting down the cleverly camouflaged objects in вЂњHidden PicturesвЂќ? (Dang it, where was that boomerang?)Дid you sit outside in the summer sunshine like 7-year-old me, unplugged and carefree, poring over the nonsensical scenes in the colorful вЂњWhatвЂ™s Wrong?вЂќ artwork puzzle on the back cover of your well-worn copy of the magazine? (Wait, how did you miss the dog riding the bicycle backward!) Long before the advent of toxic social media and Silicon Valley, way back before kids were obsessing over вЂњlikesвЂќ and вЂњviewsвЂќ of self-indulgent selfies of themselves making Kardashian duck faces in their bathrooms and gyrating like Las Vegas pole-dancers in their bedrooms for TikTok, grade-school readers had healthy addictions to the wholesome trademark features of Highlights.

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