What Was It Like In The 18th Century For A Child?

That would depend on which country the child lived in, and its financial circumstances, and whether it lived in a city, town, countryside or by the sea. You haven't given enough detail in your question for anyone to give you a very good answer.

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Regardless of the culture, economic status or location, the differences between a contemporary child's experience of life and an 18th century's are much different. It is assumed that they each would not have had the same avenues of activities and communications that children of today have. A child in the seventeen hundreds, that being the 18th century, had to walk most places they went to if not taken in horse carriage to where they were being schooled. They had no electric lights to light up either school or home. They used oil lamps and candles for light. Wood was the only source for heat, chopped oftentimes by the elder children and burnt inside furnaces in the home. The meals were not microwaved because there were no such things as either microwaves or electricity or plastic, for that matter, or the mass produced parts we use for the door hinges and so on. So the food was cooked on either a wrought iron stove, in iron skillets and pots, or on wrought iron roasting or souping pans on the hearth fire. The play locations were around the house because there was no such thing as any fast or mass transportation. They were also reprised equally by elders outside the family as inside so they had to maintain their behaviors across the board and the standards along with punishments were rather strict. They had no issues with a career-bound mother. All mothers were housewives, unless very unusual or under sanctioned volunteer or health services. A child had pets, balls, trees, ropes, and rocks to figure out how to play with. A child often read, because reading was the equivalent of television. There was no television, radio, computers, video games, but there was tossing coins, hop-scotch, and so on. Children who did not know what the future generations would have that they did not enjoyed very much the things that they did have. But the children who see what they did not have, think that they would have been miserable. A child in the 18th century learned how to become an adult in the 18th century.

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