Peasant Children
•The lives of peasant children would have been very different to today.
•They would not have attended school
•Many would have died before they were six months old as disease was very common.
•As soon as was possible, children joined their parents working on the land.
•They could not do any major physical work but they could clear stones off the land –which might damage farming tools –and they could be used to chase birds away during the time when seeds were sown.
•Peasant children could only look forward to a life of great hardship.