I took my wife and son on a family trip recently to a museum of childhood and toys. My spouse loves dolls, especially realistic baby dolls, as she has been collecting them for years. She told me that there was going to be an exhibition of realistic baby dolls at this museum, so we thought we would take a look.
Upon arrival, we quickly saw that this was a really huge exhibition into the lifes and cultures of children during the last one hundred fifty years or more. There was one particular display that made me understood how hard a life children had back within the late 1800's.
The display was displaying to you the hard conditions that they had in employment in addition to the hours they were required to put in.
One of the instances was chimney cleaning. Youngsters as old as 6 years old was doing that job, with no safety gear and was exposed to obvious lung problems. Accidents and tragedy was frequent its unhappy to say. The days were long too, with youngsters working as long as 13 hours a day in factories with only one brief break. How the quality of life has modified in the hundred or so years for the worlds children.
As the a show went on, there was an enormous array of toys from the past, right up to the present. Some of these toys reminded me of my childhood, as one or two of the gadgets on display I recall owning, and ranging from toy trains and tricycles, right up to a few of the popular branded board games we can still see today.
It was not only a fun day trip for all of the family. My spouse got to see her realistic baby dolls, and a large number of dolls there was. This trip was indeed an eye opener and more importantly, a reminder that life was not as straightforward for children as it should have been back in those difficult exhausting, long working days a hundred or so years ago.
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