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Conception of Childhood

  • Inhuman methods
    753 BCE

    Inhuman methods

    The romans used hard methods with the children.
  • Infanticide
    650 BCE

    Infanticide

    Infanticide was practiced with deformed children or with some kind of physical defect.
  • Contraception
    640 BCE

    Contraception

    Contraception or abortion were common as well as legal practices in both Greece and Rome.
  • Liberal Education
    500 BCE

    Liberal Education

    This concept born in Greece. It defends the need for male citizens to be educate until puberty.
  • Physical education and sports
    500 BCE

    Physical education and sports

    In Rome the liberal education loses relevance. Schooling is divided into three stages: Ludus (7-12 ages), Grammar (12-16 ages), Rhetoric (from1 16ages)
  • The birth
    385

    The birth

    At the time of birth, Greek custom prescribed that only other women should accompany the woman in labor.
  • Ideal of the only son
    390

    Ideal of the only son

    The male was better considered because it was thought that he could help the family economy more decisively than a girl.
  • Greek Heroes
    395

    Greek Heroes

    Some children who died at a tender age were revered as heroes, intermediate beings between the gods and mortals.
  • Infant Mortality
    Feb 25, 1400

    Infant Mortality

    Caused by poor diet, illness or simple accidents. For these reasons, the small child was very little valued and only children who exceeded the second childhood acquired value.
  • Children to work
    Feb 25, 1400

    Children to work

    The poverty of the European population meant the incorporation of the child into the labor market from the age of five. In a way, the child was "adult slave" and the girls were given to do domestic work from the age of six.
  • Renaissance
    Feb 25, 1450

    Renaissance

    Education in the Renaissance was only for the children of wealthy people
  • Sold Children
    Feb 25, 1460

    Sold Children

    The children were sold by their parents to their masters to be servants and became their property.
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau

    Jean Jacques Rousseau

    His work, "Émile ou de l'education", contains a series of principles on how to educate children
  • Froebel

    Froebel

    Promotes the idea of ​​'kindergarten'
  • Parents

    Parents

    The father and mother assumed different roles: severity and few or no affective expression on the part of the father; And condescension and affection on the part of the mother.
  • Declaration of the Rights of the Child

    Declaration of the Rights of the Child

    This declaration recognizes the child as "a human being able to develop physically, mentally, socially, morally and spiritually with freedom and dignity"
  • Children's rights convention

    Children's rights convention

    Changes the focus by considering girls and boys as protection subjects and not only as objects of the same.
  • Unicef

    Unicef

    Childhood is the time for children to be in school and at play, to grow strong and confident with the love and encouragement of their family and an extended community of caring adults.