19thCenturykidsKevina09

= Chores =

This is shown by a exert from writings of someone who was alive during the 19th century. //"//assist her friends with general household chores such as cooking, cleaning, washing, and sewing." The boys, as children "labored with their fathers and brothers in the fields and around the barn."
 * Girls had less physical chores. Men's chores were more physically demanding.**

"W e must accomplish a portion of work before we could play, shelling so many bushels of corn or cutting, splitting or carrying in to the house an allotted quantity of wood in the winter, hoeing an allotted portion of the garden or other similar work in the summer." This is an example a typical Saturday for a child in the 19th century. My typical Saturday I wake up around 10 o'clock and have a basketball game. Then I relax the rest of the day, having fun with friends. I never do chores. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987
 * Children had more chores then than we do now.**

If you did that was all, you weren't rewarded** In the 19th century children had "usual chores night and morning." This shows that children were almost **always** working, unlike today where kids my age are almost **never** working. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987
 * Chores were something that was expected. If you didn't do your chores then you were punished.


 * Chores were more difficult and took a long time.**

This is how the average morning went for a person in the 1800's: "rose in the early dawn, and, taking the well-scoured wooden pails from the bench by the back door, repaired to the cow yardbehind the barn. We owned six cows; my grandmother four. Having milked the ten cows, the milk was strained, the fires built, and breakfast prepared." On a normal school day I wake up at 6:50 and sgo right to school, I don't do a single chore. On weekends I sleep until at least 9:30, nevermind even doing chores. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=74

amount of work that they do. To children in the 19th century or any one back then I would appear extremely idle and lazy. I'm glad I live in the 21st century. When it comes to chores it is definitley better to live in the 21st century rather than in the 19th.**
 * When comparing the chores that needed to be done then to what I do now I am very lucky. I don't do even half the

= Play =


 * Work always came first. You could play only after you had finished all of your chores.**

An excerpt from the writings of [|Homer Merriam], who lived in the 19th century: "we must accomplish a portion of work before we could play." A lot of chores had to be done and only a day to do them. If the chores got done then you were able to play as a reward. today we play first then do our chores and still expect a reward.


 * Play was more physical.**

They didn't have many toys or video games. This kept them in shape and gave them something to do. "any kind of play... running our races, climbing fences, trees, buildings, etc" or "the young found plenty of sport, playing leap-frog or tag, wolf or 'I spy'.” http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=822


 * Play then had to be imaginative and with less items to use.**

"play... was unstructured and imaginative 'make-believe' ." Today "make-believe" play is less common. children tend to base their games on objects or an already existing game. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=26


 * Adults thought little of play.**

To the adults play was just a way to keep children occupied and out of the way, but would gladly give them more work to do. Ironically this is what [|Lydia Maria Child] thought about play: "it is a great deal better for the boys and girls on a farm to be picking blackberries at six cents a quart, than to be wearing out their clothes in useless play."


 * From my research I have concluded that play in the 21st century and play in the 19th century both have their positives and negatives. Play in the 19th century is more exciting and uses more energy. Ply in the 21st is a lot more relaxing and we can enjoy it anytime we want. unlike in the 19th century where you had to have all your work done before, resulting in less time to play. Also parents allow more play in the 21st century rather than trying to stop it, like in the 19th century.**