ATTITUDE TO CHILDREN !!!!!!!! (taming the beasts!!)

Tudor parents use to TAME THE BEASTS!! this meant that the children were treated harshly. Teachers use to give 50 strokes of the birch, a type of cane, or they might hit them across the mouth with a feral, a flat piece of wood with a hole on the top of it. (Children were so scared they often ran away from school.)

SCHOOL AND EDUCATION .

Some of the children went to dame schools but only a few. Most of the schools were run by a dame woman. When the children had homework, they had to do it and had hours and hours of it. If they were bad they got the cane or went to prison . Only the richer children went to school . Most of the work sheets weren't like ours today, one side had the lords prayer and the other side had the alphabet . After that they had to learn how write the alphabet in ink. If they were rude or didn't speak Latin they would get beaten with the wooden rod

Edward had a special friend called a whipping boy. When Edward was naughty his special friend got the punishment. Edward was very bright at school. They never had school uniform they wore what their teacher or there parents wore .

Only boys went to school in Tudor times and they had to go to school six days a week. Girls from poor families did not go school but some rich girls did. Rich girls mostly learnt at home, they learnt music,writing and reading . Boys only learned Latin Greek and religion they wrote with quill pens. Poor children had to work and the children had long hours of work and few breaks for breakfast and lunch.

CHILDREN CLOTHES

Children wore exactly what their mothers and fathers wore, like jewellery and all kinds of rings and bangles. In 1553 10 year olds from poorer families wore an old piece of cloth. Richer children wore valuable jewellery. Lots of babies died before they were ten years old, mums sometimes died when they were having babies. Babies were swaddled at birth this meant they were rapped from head to toe in white bandages . Their parents thought that it will make there legs and arms grow straight.They were hung up out the way. The babies had to just sit there and cry.

TOYS AND GAMES.

Richer children had pretend guns and games that had been specially made and poorer children had wooden tops and little wooden balls all the things that did not cost any money. Poor children had toys that they made by themselves out of wood or they played games we play today like blind mans bluff and tag, hoops with sticks, throwing stones, rolling barrels,climbing, playing on wooden posts, piggy back rides, hide and seek, rolly pollies, headstands and playing with masks. There were china dolls in Tudor times that looked very real. They were called Bartmellow babies and they were about 16cm high. Some of these dolls are around today, and we can see that the dolls were dressed like the children in clothes just like the adults. (Poorer children always had to work and had little time to play.) The games that poor children had they made themselves. Some rich children played with guns some rich girls would rather stay at home then play. Some children also loved to go swimming.