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Children also participated in jobs, such as harvesting and agricultural duties for boys and kitchen work for the girls.

Children stayed with their mothers until they were two years old.

Then, the child would have to attend Kinderschule until the age of seven.

At that point, the child would attend school five and a half days a week, all year round until the age of fourteen or fifteen.

At school, they shelled, cleaned and graded seed corn, picked fruit, and studied reading, writing and arithmetic.