I took my family on a family trip recently to a museum of childhood and toys. My spouse likes dolls, mainly about realistic baby dolls, as she has been a collector for many years. She told me that there was going to be a show of realistic baby dolls at this museum, so we figured we would take a look.

Upon arrival, we soon found that this was a very large exhibition into the lifes and cultures of children over the last 150 years or more. There was one particular display that made me understood how difficult a life kids had back in the late 1800's.

The exhibit was showing you the difficult conditions that they had in employment as well as the hours they needed to work.

One of the cases was chimney cleaning. Children as young as 6 years old was doing that job, with no safety equipment and was exposed to apparent lung problems. Accidents and tragedy was frequent its sad to say. The times were long too, with children working as long as thirteen hours a day in factories with only one short break. How the standard of life has changed within the hundred or so years for the worlds children.

As the a show went on, there was an enormous array of toys from the past, right up to the present. Some of these toys made me think fondly of my childhood, as one or two of the items on show I recall owning, and ranging from toy trains and tricycles, right up to some of the well-liked branded board games we can still see today.

It was not only a fun day out for my whole family. My wife was happy to see her realistic baby dolls, and a large selection of dolls there was. This visit was indeed an eye opener and more importantly, a reminder that life was not as easy for kids as it could have been back in these difficult hard, long working days a hundred or so years ago.

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