Childhood in history

  • Period: 500 BCE to 300

    School in ancient Rome

    In ancient Rome the teaching was divided into 3 parts. The ludus for children between 7 and 12 years, the grammatical part for children between 12 and 16 years old and theater, rhetoric and poetry for adolescents older than 16 years.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 300

    Infanticidal mode

    The myth of Medea reflects the reality of childhood in antiquity. One of the most important facts is that the parents solved their anxieties about child care by killing them, this affected the surviving children, they were allowed to grow but they grew up with an obvious gross sodomization of the child.
  • Period: 350 BCE to 450

    Aristotle's childhood concept

    Aristotle one of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, I argue that education is one of the factors that influence training during personal development.
  • 300

    Infanticide

    Infanticide
    In the year 300 the parents began to assassinate the children by the suffering that the mother caused to him after the birth, this was considered like murder.
  • 300

    Abandoning

    Abandoning
    Parents began to abandon their children by accepting the child as a soul, they saw this as a way to escape their concerns, left them in convents, hospitals.
  • Period: 300 to 500

    Plato´s conception of childhood

    For Platon was one of the first people to propose that one of the most important stages of life is childhood, from this thought many philosophers after Christ begin to read of this thought to have a more humanistic vision.
  • Period: 300 to Feb 25, 1200

    abandoning time

    The parents at this time marketed the children, selling them to other families to become servants and helpers from other homes, also paid their debts through them.
  • 400

    Saint Augustine

    Saint Augustine
    St. Augustine was one of the first to determine that raising mothers at an early age was crucial to their lives and to the lives of others.
  • 500

    The misuse of seneca thinking

    The misuse of seneca thinking
    The thoughts of seneca have been badly interpetado from the antiquity, phrases like "Mad dogs we knock on the head, the fierce and savage ox we slay, sickly sheep we put to the knife to keep them from infecting the flock, unnatural progeny we destroy, we drown even children who at birth are weakly and abnormal. It is not anger, but reason that separates the harmful from the sound "
  • Period: 500 to Feb 25, 1500

    The middle age

    Parental infanricidal acts were usually projected onto Jews
    or witches, as here in Guazzo’s Compendium Malificarum. Very typical in the pre and the middle age itself
  • Feb 24, 1100

    The church protests

    The church protests
    In the 12th century, the children were considered objects, with them they kept disposing of them to sell them, to pay their debts, among other things. The church decrees that children can not be sold after 7 years
  • Period: Feb 25, 1300 to

    Ambivalence

    Ambivalence is a state of having simultaneously, conflicting feelings towards a person or object. Written differently, ambivalence is the experience of having thoughts and / or emotions of both positive and negative valences towards someone or something.
  • Period: Feb 25, 1400 to Feb 25, 1500

    Renaissance

    In the rebirth children began to have more benefits and were no longer mistreated and used as before.
  • The boy is an angel

    The boy is an angel
    After the age of rebirth the child is recognized as an agel, because at the moment of birth has an innocence and is a being defenseless before the world and needs an accompaniment for its adaptation
  • Period: to

    Socialization

    245/5000
    In this century the church no longer had the same influence on education, the divine force took second place. The development of childhood was specified by specific stages such as his intellect and the ability to perceive relationships.
  • The child importance

    The human being realized the importance of childhood in people. The importance of the education of children as a fundamental part of development as a mature person in the future
  • Human rights

    The international organization of human rights I consider the child as a person and citizen.