1. Child Labor: Effect of Industrial Revolution

10. A girl, age of 8, had worked from 6 A. M. to 8 P. M
A girl, age of 8, had worked from 6 A.M. to 8 P.M. with an hour off at noon. When business was busy, however, she worked 16 straight hours, from 5 A.M. to 9 P.M.

11. Another boy, whose parents had sold him to a mill owner, testified that the child laborers were locked up in the mill night and day. He ran away twice, and was caught and whipped by his overseer. Stories as horrible as theses are common from the child laborers in the coal-mines.

15. These children who worked in the streets far away from adult supervision often fell into gambling, prostitution, or theft. Children also worked in glass factories in front of fiery furnaces, in dark textile mills, in coalfields breathing in coal dust for 10 hours at a time.

30. Think about your childhood…..
What do you see?
What did you get to enjoy?
Did you have worries or adult responsibilities?

31. Be thankful for what you have:
HOW IS YOUR LIFE?
Be thankful for what you have:
Schooling, money, clothing, family, happiness, opportunities, and most of all you can be a KID!!!
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