Childhood in History

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  • Period: 1200 BCE to 146 BCE

    Greece

    The child were introduced into the education system, the fathers had the power to decide is the son was worthy. The childhood at that moment was shorter than now, because the children could get married at 13 and go to war
  • Period: 31 BCE to 476

    Rome

    Education was reserved for wealthy kids, the kids with disabilities also were treated unfairly and in most of the cases they were killed
  • Period: 300 to 1200

    Abandoning

    The parents used to abandon the kids, giving them to other people to take care of them, to escape from their responsabilities as parents
  • Period: 1300 to

    Ambivalent Mode

    The kids started to get education in manners and the parents start molding children at early age, and the child instruction manuals started to be common
  • Period: to

    Intrusive

    The parents were over interested in the kids, and they started to try to control the children's minds
  • Period: to

    Socializing

    Raising a child was more a training process than a dominating process
  • Period: to

    Helping

    The parents were supporting the child during the childhood, helping fulfilling their needs

  • Childhood nowdays

    Now there's much research on how to educate children, the education starts really early and the parents start stimulating their children almost since their birth