I took my entire family on a family trip today to a museum of childhood and games. My spouse likes dolls, especially realistic baby dolls, as she has been a collector for many years. She told me that there was going to be a display of realistic baby dolls at this museum, so we figured we might go see it.

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

The exhibit was exhibiting to you the difficult circumstances they'd in employment as well as the hours they were required to work.

One of the cases was chimney cleaning. Kids as young as 6 years of age was cleaning the chimneys, with no security equipment and was exposed to obvious lung problems. Accidents and tragedy was frequent its sad to say. The times were lengthy too, with children working so long as thirteen hours a day in factories with just one short break. How the quality of life has changed within the hundred or so years for the worlds children.

Further into the exhibition, there was a huge array of toys from the previous, right up to the present. Some of these toys reminded me of my childhood, as one or two of the items on show I recall owning, and starting from toy trains and tricycles, right up to some of the common branded board games we still enjoy today.

It was not only a good day out for all of the family. My wife was happy to see her realistic baby dolls, and a large range of dolls there was. This visit was certainly an enjoyable trip and more importantly, a reminder that life was not as easy for children as it could have been back in these difficult laborious, long working days 100 or so years ago.

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