I think many worked. On the farm, in mines, in factories. Farmers would intentionally have many children just for extra labor. School hours and breaks are, in part, the way they are to let children work on the farm.
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ikidd@lemmy.world 7 months agoKids stood around and stared at their feet before swings were invented, I imagine.
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Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 7 months ago
I think hoops and sticks were big for a while
wavebeam@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“we’re children! we’re children! we’re children!”
xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 months ago
“Pay no attention to Wimp Lo, we purposely trained him wrong… as a joke.”