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• Children and Education
• A New Way to Educate
• Child-Rearing

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The Adventures of Billy and Mandy
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Vital Stats Billy

• Birth day Sometime in the 17th or 18th century
• Country of origin one of those European ones
• Hobbies Neglecting, and abusing his children
  until they die

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Vital Stats Mandy

• Birth day Sometime in the 17th or 18th century
• Country of origin one of those European ones
• Hobbies Giving birth to many many children,
  breast feeding

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Mandy has a job

• It was common for the wealthy to hire wet-nurses
• Nursing was considered crude among the wealthy
• The milk from breast feeding is full of
  immunity-producing substances

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Mandy gets fired

• It was widely believed that the milk from a
  wet-nurse would pass on bad traits to a baby.
• Wet-nurses were often blamed for anything wrong
  that deveops in a child

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Infanticide Wrong ?

• In ancient times it was common for parents to
  kill their new born child. It was better for this
  one to die rather than the whole family die.
• Church denounced infanticide
• Killing babies became illegal--punisable by death

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Billy gets an idea

• Because of the infanticide laws, poor parents
  would sometimes come up with ideas to
  accidentally kill their children. They would
• Hire killing nurses
• accidently suffocate baby

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Babies make crappy presents

• It became common for the poor to leave their
  babies at the doorsteps of churches.
• Eventually foundling homes developed which were
  much like orphanages

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The baby and the Foundling Home

• In Paris, 1/3 of all children went straight to
  foundling homes
• In Paris there were 5,000 more babies each year
• More than50 of the babies usually died

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Dont get too attached

• Because of the high mortality rate among
  children, parents had the tendency to avoid
  becoming attached.
• One blushes to think of loving ones children
• Fathers had more interest in the diseases of his
  horses than of his children

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Get to work you lazy kid!

• Children were often abused, and forced to do
  labor
• Spare the rod, and spoil the child

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The Mid-18th century

• Rousseaus book Emile called for greater love,
  tenderness and understanding toward children

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Billys Book Report

• Emile
• By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Emile What Billy learned

• It is important to educate children, because when
  they grow up as adults they will be able to use
  what they learned
• Children dont learn well verbally, but with some
  creativity can be taught many things
• Children learn well through experiencing, not by
  listening

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Billy Jr. goes to school

• Starting in the sixteenth century, education
  among children became more popular
• By early 19th century both rich and poor were
  sending kids to school

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Reading for fun

• Bible was most popular book to read
• Another form of popular literature were chapbooks
  which were short fictional stories

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The Adventures of Willy and Sandy

• (the descendants of Billy and Mandy)

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Vital Stats Willy

• Birth date In the 18th or 19th century
• Favorite pass time Demanding that his children
  succeed in life, where he had failed
• Affection toward children conditional on
  achievement

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Vital Stats Sandy

• Birth date In the 18th or 19th century
• Loves and cares about all her children
• hobbies reading books on child rearing

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Parents Care

• Parents started to care more for their children
• Parents had less children. This was done for
  economic reasons, and allowed them to take better
  care of the few children they had.

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Good mood Good kids

• Never run the risk of conception when you are
  sick or overtired or unhappy. For the bodily
  condition of the child, its vigor and magnetic
  qualities, are much affected by conditions ruling
  this great moment.

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THE END(now you are supposed to clap)