Childhood Memories Part One: Toys & Stories History | Health | Happiness Let’s Reminisce: Our Childhoods Every single one of us has unique and special memories of our formative childhood years. This booklet will help remind us of this magical time of adventure, exploration and fun. We will look at Toys, Comic Books, Nursery Rhymes and Schools across generations, because it’s interesting to share and compare our childhood experiences with that of others. You will find a mixture of puzzles throughout the booklet for a bit of fun but also as an opportunity to reflect on the memories that were important to you. We would also love to hear about your own childhood experiences and ask that you email
[email protected] with anything you might like to share. Childhood Our own childhood experiences are shaped by factors such as location, education, expectation, responsibility and conflict. For example, the experiences of Roman children were very different from the children born today. Throughout history our experiences of childhood have been shaped by various influences, in classrooms, factory floors, mines, family homes, orphanages, battlefields, in front of television sets and so on. Over the last 200 years we have seen significant transformations that have taken place surrounding children’s lives, in the ways they are thought about, and how they are treated. For example, a hundred years ago, a twelve-year-old working in a factory in Britain would have been perfectly acceptable. Now, it would cause social services' intervention, causing both the parents and factory owner to face charges of exploitation and neglect.