Tuesday, May 17, 2011

What Was a Child's Life Like ?


Very young children spent most of their days playing with toys or making up games.The toys children had and the games they made up or played depended on where their parents were placed in society. By the age of 12 and 14 the kids were considered young adults that meant they had to do work.  The daugher's usually learned how to make clothes from their mother. While the son usually learned how to fight, not form his father though because his father wasn't around. During the birth of a child, yes it was a good thing but it was a danger for the mother because back in the medieval times there wasn't medicine and shots to take so the mother would be in great PAIN! I saw that one women said that for all the pain she went through tho have the baby, she was going to put the baby through pain also. Kids were mistreated, sometimes were accused of being witches with no evidence. In medieval times children were abused, sold, left at doorsteps of churches, and were considered grown by 7-8 years old. Rich girls had to be on a marriage contract made by the family of an older man by the age of 3-4. They were married by the age of 12 or 13, and dead by the age of 15 because of childbirth.

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