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675 BCE
Children in Middle Age
Note smallest child stands to eat, older child serves family. Elizabethan Family at Dinner. Abandonment is institutionalized. -
500 BCE
Medieval fears implanted to Children at early age
Most ancients agreed that it was good to have the images of these witches constantly before children. -
300 BCE
Platon´s conception of Childhood
Plato was one of the main and first objective people that assured the fact that childhood manners and treating was one of the main keys to life itself. -
Period: Aug 28, 1300 to
Ambivalent Mode
Because the child, when it was allowed to enter into the parents’ emotional life, was still a container for dangerous projections, it was their task to mold it into shape. -
Apr 28, 1492
Medieval and Pre-Renaissance Conception of Childhood
Children were saw as Richard Allestree (1676) puts it, “the new-born babe is full of the stains and pollution of sin, which it inherits from our first parents through our loins". -
Period: Oct 12, 1492 to
Reinassance
Reinassance would be polarized in the field; making incredible achivements and improvements in human treatment, but none of it included the child well-being and its development as a future adult. -
Period: to
Intrusive Mode (18th Century))
A tremendous reduction in projection and the virtual disappearance of reversal was the accomplishment of the great transition for parent-child relations which appeared in the eighteenth century. -
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Socializing Mode
As projections continued to diminish, the raising of a child became less a process of conquering its will than of training it, guiding it into proper paths, teaching it to conform, socializing it. -
Period: to
New findings lead and Enlighten the way
Projective Care, as seen in Apache mothers to her babies, is what gives hope and good lead to the cause. Global (almost) concience is acquired through mass media spread, children acquire another meaning and a much higher scale of relevance in society's stratagem -
Looking for lost childhood
The influence of the media, especially television, on children and adolescents is worrying, because they take as a prototype or example of what they want to be those boys and girls who appear consuming alcohol, cigarettes or drugs, or that Driven by the obsession of extreme thinness end up suffering from eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia.
