Fanstic Family Life...for Some
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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How were womans life in medival times?
Woman should be obedient to their father and husband, most women worked alongside of their husband or they just worked for living. Most peasant woman worked with their husband in fields having to fed and clothe family. Today woman work but some are stay at moms but that normal in modern time. But some married couples work together in the same build but not often. Craftsmen’s wives and daughters usually found work in workshops and as trade’s men too. Wealthy woman ran household and sometimes ran husband’s affairs few high powered woman ran national events. Woman ran husbands large estates when they died in battle or court or on crusade.
What did children do during the middle ages?
Children’s crusades when, where, and how?

How were babies cared for when they were born?
Babies and Childbirth

This how the mother fed the baby only by breast milk. If you were wealthy you hired a nurse to feed your baby with her own breast milk. Babies were breast fed until two or three. Then when the kids were old enough they were fed table food and the mom would chew the food and fed it to the baby.
What did peasant children do with their family?
Peasant children
Peasant children spent their days helping in their parents grows food, raise livestock, and do chores. Peasants lived in little cottages that were often dark and smoky because no windows and cooked on an open grill in the main room. Peasants didn’t have much furniture but had stools and trestle tables. Slept on straw mats some had lofts animals lived in peasant homes but in pens big animals like oxen and pigs were outside.
Children herded geese, scaring birds away from newly plants seeds, gathering fruits, nuts and collecting eggs from chickens. Older boys learned to plant and harvest crops, guide plow care for plow animals repair tools learn trade blacksmith and milling. Blacksmith made tools cut iron miller grounded grain. Peasant girls milked cows fed chickens led sheep to pasture learned to cook and preserve food. Girls or woman made clothes, tended to the garden,made medicines from herbs and spices they grew. some peasants moved in cities but some stated on the manor with nobles. Boys also cleaned stables,worked in kitchen and worked with hunting dogs. girls were maids cooked clean and did laundry.
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