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3000 BCE
Childhood in the ancient Egypt
In the ancient Egypt, the children are considered as the father's successor. -
1800 BCE
Childhood in the ancient Greece
Children are considered as mere objects, whitout any qualities to listen to their will. -
100 BCE
The infanticide
The homicide of newborns. -
300
Christianism
Importance is given to family ties by the word of the Lord. -
1000
Abandonment
To free the children from their own sin the only way was by abandonment. -
1300
Renaissance
During this period new ways of learning begin to be applied for the children and therefor the schools are created. -
1300
Ambivalent
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. -
1400
Humanism
Christ has power and priority above all. Children are taught in schools to follow Christ. -
1500
Modern age
Great innovations in architecture and agriculture are created which are taught to the children. -
Liberalism
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Intrusive
The child was no longer so full of dangerous projections, and rather than just examine its insides with an enema, the parents approached even closer and attempted to conquer its mind, in order to control its insides, its anger, its needs, its masturbation, its very will. -
Socializing
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. -
Helping
The child knows better than the parent what it needs at each stage of its life, and fully involves both parents in the child’s life as they work to empathize with and fulfill its expanding and particular needs.
