r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 20h ago

Feels good man It's funny bc it's true

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u/TJ_McWeaksauce 12h ago

It's interesting how rapidly parenting has been changing over the past 100 years. Each new generation of parents has a different style.

But did parenting change that much during, say, the Industrial Age, the Renaissance, the Middle Ages, or other time periods of the distant past? Were there thousands of uninterrupted years when kids got whooped like Baby Boomers were?

I'm thinking of the eras during which children were used as farm or other trade labor, or how during the Industrial Revolution parents sent their kids to work in mines and factories where they got injured, maimed, or even killed. And that wasn't punishment, that was their default life. Getting your Playstation taken away for a few days really isn't bad by comparison.

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u/mromutt 12h ago

When kids worked the factories and whatnot their bosses would do the beatings or just withhold pay.