Children's role from the 16th
Two main things were changing in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the methods of child rearing among the English upper classes and the adult views of children. Through the centuries, child-rearing methods among the English upper classes began to change, getting less harsh and dangerous for the children. Adults' views of children, which shaped their practices towards the children, also changed from them being evil spirited to innocent and delight. The sixteenth century was the worse through children's eyes. Robert Cleaver (article one), a Calvinist minister, viewed children as "hath a wrong-doing heart" and "inclined to evil". He also writes that the children "become good not by birth, but by education". The clothing of infants according to Robert Cleaver, in this century was referred to as swaddling, "to wrap narrow strips of cloth around an infant" (article 8). Parents would discipline their children by striking them on the face and head with cudgels, staves, pitchforks and fire shovels. Bar
Elizabeth Clinton (article 5) believes that mothers should nurse their own children than In the sixteenth century, children were viewed as "hath a wrong doing heart" and tholemew Batty (article 11) believes family (article 4) in this century describes an affectionate scene, with much love was as "yet a blank paper unscribbled with observations of the world, whereas in time it among the nuclear family and that they were dressed like little adults. An upperclass "cudgels, staves, pitchforks and fire shovels" opposed to other forms of discipline like
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