Post by JustJohn or JJ on Dec 7, 2017 7:59:03 GMT -7
5 Things Medieval Moms Did Differently (And How They're Not So Different After All)
Bad odors to help with help with labor? Sending a child to work at age 7? Moms from the Middle Ages had a couple of habits that might not fly in 2017.
For anyone who has ever plopped their rambunctious child in front of a Disney movie or used their smartphone to quell a mini-revolt at a restaurant, it's inconceivable to consider what being a mom was like just a generation or two ago. Parenting without handheld smartphone games or a plethora of mommy blogs to lean on? Yikes.
If you think being a mom in the age of rotary phones and frozen TV dinners might have been difficult, imagine raising your children roughly a millennium ago in the Middle Ages. Medieval moms had a vastly different world to bring children into and, as a result, employed a variety of distinctive parenting practices. Here, we'll give you the most shocking examples.
And while there are certainly plenty of contrasts with how we raise our kids today, you might be surprised to see just how many of the basic tenets of motherhood have remained.
More here:
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