It's one of my questions for English class and if you know then please answer it. We'll greatly appreciate it.
2006-10-25 04:53:04 · 13 answers · asked by Raven H 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Well...the kids had dolls. The boys I believe did the typical things young boys did which was play and make their own entertainment. Books weren't quite available because they cost money. Something that most Puritans didn't have a lot of. You also have to remember that during this time, young girls learned things like sewing, spinning, cooking, butter churning and the like as well as assisted their mothers in the care of infants. Boys were relegated to farm work, wood chopping, cattle herding and as they became older fishing and heavier work.
To be quite honest, there was little time for fun. Family time was spent at night no doubt reading passages from the Bible or religious text. All day Sunday was spent in the meeting house listening to the pastor give his sermon. You broke for lunch and then returned to the meeting house for more preaching and praying until dinner.
So...fun was at a premium.
2006-10-25 05:12:43 · answer #1 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Puritans created the phrase "Idle hands are the Devil's playthings".
They actually discouraged what we would think of as fun. Instead, all activities had a "work" element to them. You were quilting to make a useful hosehold item, not just because you like quilting. Many households had a few books, but you were reading for knowledge, even though you might enjoy reading as well.
2006-10-25 05:55:09 · answer #2 · answered by adphllps 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To Puritans, then or now, anything that is fun is sinful. My older sister is like that. She does have some fun by quarreling about anything my kid sister and I may say or do and by trying to cheat us out of Mom's property. Puritans say they can do no wrong, but anyone else can do no right...except their favorites.
2006-10-25 06:30:51 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Puritans prayed a lot, and they went to church. To them, any kind of fun was sin. They were not the type of people who had fun.
2006-10-25 05:29:00 · answer #4 · answered by bldudas 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fun? Puritans are against fun Fun= sin! For some real laughs, though, they might burn a suspected witch or two.
2006-10-25 04:57:14 · answer #5 · answered by alanc_59 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I HAVE TO AGREE WITH QUASIMODO. IN THE 1600'S THERE WEREN'T ANY MALLS TO HANG OUT IN. JUST LIVING DAY TO DAY MUST HAVE BEEN A STRUGGLE IN ITSELF, AND WORKING FROM CAN SEE TO CAN'T SEE DAY IN AND DAY OUT PROBABLY DIDN'T LEAVE A LOT OF LEISURE TIME IN WHICH TO HAVE THE LUXURY OF FUN...ALTHOUGH, HEAVING A WET JUICY SNOWBALL AT A SISTER(OR BROTHER) MIGHT BE CONSTRUED AS FUN (AS LONG AS IT DIDN'T GET YOU SENT TO THE STOCKS OR PILLARY)
2006-10-25 07:05:30 · answer #6 · answered by boots 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's easy...They liked to throw rotten vegetables at, and basically torture, anyone that was locked in a yoke, in the villiage square. Look it up. That was accepted and encouraged.
2006-10-25 05:45:09 · answer #7 · answered by Raymond 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think they had family home evening.....where the whole family got together and played monopoly and spin the bottle.
2006-10-25 05:00:55 · answer #8 · answered by Barrett G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pray.
2006-10-25 05:00:54 · answer #9 · answered by LadyDragon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
drowned people in troughs, put them in stocks, whipped them.
Puritans were into bondage and sado-masochism.
2006-10-25 04:59:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋