The_Puritans

The Puritans Puritan child rearing practices are very diverse from modern childhood. In all probability there is much to learn about how different the Puritan and modern society truly are. The disparity between the roles of the father and mother are very obvious. When comparing the children from the two societies it is very apparent that the expectations of the two societies have changed dramatically. Throughout the duration of this paper the differences between the Puritan child rearing practices and the modern will become evident. The Puritans were very much a community in every way. The Puritans fundamentally lived in the community, church, and family. People in the Puritan community made it a priority to make sure that the Parents were doing their job. The city fathers had the final say in how the child was being reared. Learning the English tongue was essential to a child’s education. If the children could not speak the English tongue then they were unable to read the bible. Children were to be raised the way the city fathers saw fit or they would take the matter into their own hands. If the children were not successful it was because children, puritan, very, way, child, puritans, people, parents, modern, father, between, being, about, two, today, raised, own, obvious, mother, made, go, community, child’s, values, until, typically, tongue, society, societies, self, say, remembered, rearing, reared, read