Childhood in history

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  • 2000 BCE

    century XXI

    century XXI
    Boys and girls are beginning to be seen as a social group, with a series of internationally recognized rights, being the subject of rights and not the object of them. The Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes that they are citizens with full rights, and that among their rights is social participation.
  • 1950 BCE

    century XX

    century XX
    A new social concept of childhood appears, boys, and especially girls, are considered citizens with specific needs, so they must have a series of also specific rights. It is assumed that during childhood, human beings are much more vulnerable than in adulthood, which is why greater protection by the competent institutions is necessary.
  • 1900 BCE

    siglo IX

    siglo IX
    Philippe Ariès argued that "childhood" is a concept created by modern society and discovered that children were represented as small adults. Although the babysitters were indifferent, negligent, or brutal. Emphasizing pre-industrial poverty and high infant mortality.
  • 1850 BCE

    century XVIII

    century XVIII
    The child must ADAPT the importance of action and experience, and not only of the word, to acquire knowledge, excessively rote instructive practices where the school was taught to the rhythm of the oak stick that the routine was used to hit the rebellious and disobedient students.
  • 1800 BCE

    EDAD MODERNA SIGLO XVII

    EDAD MODERNA SIGLO XVII
    It was said that the child is good by nature, it is born that way, at least, that society can get to pervert it and take away the good inclinations of the child.
  • 1700 BCE

    RENAISSANCE- XVII CENTURY

    RENAISSANCE- XVII CENTURY
    With the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the bourgeoisie, the need for child labor drastically decreases and, therefore, many children stop having to go to work and have “too many hours of leisure” left that they must occupy with some activity and return to emerge many of the basic ideas of early childhood education, applying physical punishment as many times as necessary for their education.
  • 1650 BCE

    Century XVI

    Century XVI
    At this time, it was considered that children are capable of adopting the same behavior as adults in society, the difference referred to physical size and their level of experience.
    The conception of the child as a miniature adult persisted in societies where children were not taken to school. In England or France, children slept together with adults, wore the same clothes, worked the same tasks
  • 1550 BCE

    Christianity

    Christianity
    the child was no longer treated as a free person, because it was thought that all his knowledge and his life were given to God giving all power to the church, he does not have physical activity since the child is considered full of sin who was a being perverse and corrupt that for his good education must be socialized.
  • 1400 BCE

    Middle Age

    Middle Age
    boys, girls and adolescents were used as an object of exchange, adjusting marriages that benefited the family. The ecclesiastical and Anglo-Saxon laws considered children equal to adults for some purposes, and different for others, they were adults in small, education was different between girls and boys.
  • 500 BCE

    Egypt

    Egypt
    the child was seen as the successor of his father in the case of the upper classes (pharaohs and nobility), in the case of the lower classes (peasants, artisans and slaves) they are considered as reproducers of trades
  • 384 BCE

    GREECE AND ROME

    GREECE AND ROME
    It was said that children were the formation of free men and the "integral" development of the person (body-mind)