what did the victorian children do ?

[krista]

?????

[sandyRoe]

They were seen but not heard.

[squarebear]

Ate, went to the toilet.

Care to be more specific?

[ChuckFickens]

Climbed up chimneys?

[piggynose]

http://www.woodlands-.../children/working.htm

[jno]

since 1870 they've had to go to school. Before that they often didn't, being sent to clean chimneys or herd animals like Little Boy Blue.

[McMouse]

Grew up to be Edwardian.

[weecalf]

went to school .Is this an attempt to get the most answers .picked a pocket or two?

[pastafreak]

Is this a case for the G***** word??

[tiggerblue10]

They listened to their elders and didn't give back chat.

[dotty.]

Many did not survive toi adulthood including those that lied in the comparative fresher air of rural England. That included all classes of children. If you are specifically asking about children of the poorer classes, which included the low paid agricultural labourers, dock labourers, industrial manufacturing workers etc, then they existed on a meagre unhealthy diet in an unhealthy environment that was not the choice of their families, as there was little choice to be made. Many children at a very youn age were admitted to the workhouses, where they were able to have a meagre slightly less unhealthy diet until they were old enough to be sent to work or be apprenticed out to an employer as a live in servant.
There were a growing number of charities and reformers who saw the plight of poor and orphaned children and tried to make a difference, check out the work ot Dr Barnardo:
http://www.hiddenlive...articles/poverty.html
http://www.guardian.c...entity.patrickbarkham
http://www.museumoflo...victorianchildren.htm
http://www.stockindex...section=keywordsearch
12:43 Tue 25th Jan 2011

[pastafreak]

dotty-do you hire yourself out to do homework?

[dotty.]

it's onew od those case where you know the OP has not had the ability to google the right sequence of key words pasta

[pastafreak]

Just using the words 'victorian children' will get her started.....which she needs to learn how to do. It would be the same had she used an encyclopaedia (a book!!? )

http://www.google.co....&q=victorian+children

Now I've gone and helped her....lol

[Mosaic]

This question demonstrates the educational advantage gained by those who have been in contact with IT all their lives. Impressive, ain't it?

Incidentally it is a little-known fact that on her coronation, Queen Victoria presented all children under the age of seven with an app that allowed them to play whip n top on their i-phones.

[factor-fiction]

Remember krista's other posts?
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/members/krista/

[jno]

AB's a homework resource like any other: nobody's going to do all your homework for you but they may point you in the right direction. I wish it had been around in my day.

[krista]

that aint particulary nice..!

[krista]

thought you were meant to help me ...!