How we all Connect

Sometimes we wonder, are we really like kids on earth 1,000 years ago? Well, yea we actually have a lot in common with them, if that isn’t surprising!! Starting with babies, not much has changed with how we grow up with our mother’s love. Kids wore diaper, not Huggies® I’m sure, but kids didn’t go naked! Mothers would also give them bibs when they ate and booties to keep their feet warm in the winter. You know when the sweet little babies come home from the hospital swaddled in their blankets? Well that was no different in the Middle Ages. The babies slept in cribs right next to their mother’s beds, so they would be safe at night. It was always important to be protected by their mothers, even when they didn’t want it.

When the sweet little baby was all ready to go outside and play with friends, they would play games a lot similar to the games we played when we were little kids. If parents came looking for their kids they might find them playing soccer, baseball, badminton, bowling, golf, and tennis! I bet you never knew that kids in the 1000’s played golf, weird right? Another game I for sure did not expect kids to be playing was hockey! Now I bet they didn’t call it hockey but the came was very closely related to the game that interest so many people today. Those games were only a start to what kids played. A ton of other things that we don’t think about, but made us some of the happiest kids were tag, hopscotch, climbing trees, and wrestling. I bet I played tag everyday with my friends, never would I have known that kids before me played tag too! Another toy that was very popular was a hobby horse; you know the stick with the horse head on it that you would pretend you were a cowboy on? Kids often played with dolls, checkers, and board games, not monopoly but I’m sure they had some games where you competed to buy land or food for their families, wouldn’t you think??

Now kids didn’t have much time to be kids, they went strait to work at the age of fourteen, we fourteen and are in middle school! I couldn’t imagine going to my job at a car wash or something like that! But since they didn’t have car washes in medieval ages, they had other jobs and that is how they relate to the United States in some ways. Their jobs were things like carpentry, shoe making, law, and banking, yea I said banking! I don’t think we had banks until the 1800’s, certainly not in medieval times! Wow!!!! So jobs were a lot like jobs today, if you could believe that, but I bet there are jobs that don’t even exist anymore like my knight in shining amour. J