Children in the past were often treated and dressed like small adults, working long hours including with dangerous machinery from sun up to sun down in conditions like farms and factories with cotton, as many parents had large families expecting not all children would survive and only the lucky few could attend school, while their labor, health issues, and indistinguishable grooming from boys and girls showed childhood was very different then than today.

1. HISTORY OF CHILDREN

2. Children were often dressed as & treated like little adults.

3. Children had to often work like adults

4. Children work long hours with cotton fibers to make into fabric

5. These lucky children could attend school rather than work

6. Parents often had many children because many would not live

7. Children often worked from sun up until sun down

8. Parents and children work under poor lighting conditions

9. Children work with machines that were dangerous

10. Children were used to perform many farming tasks

11. The hard labor often many children look old

12. Children suffered from many health concerns

13. Feeding a baby was a challenge with these baby bottles

14. Boys or girls? They were often dressed and groomed alike.

15. Childhood has certainly changed from the times past