Leisure+time

=**Leisure Time by Allison Cotton**= Leisure time was basically the free time that families and people had during the 19th century. People spent this leisure time doing many different fun activities like going on vacations and also swimming. Most of peoples leisure time was only on Sundays because people worked long and hard shifts during the weeks and got Sundays off to spend with their families. Children would spend their leisure time going swimming in the communal pools. The picture below is of a floating swimming pool that the children would swim in and enjoy each others company. Resorts started to appear which allowed families to travel all over the country to see the different attractions at each place. Some families went to carnivals or funfairs during their leisure time as well as parks because they were becoming more of a attraction for families. They also went to places which were known then as artificial bathing areas and enjoyed different sports which the kids and adults played. These were very favorite activities during free time. Photography was also a favorite pastime of people during the industrial revolution. Different sports like the picture below of a field sport were also enjoyable during the industrial revolution. Children were not the main focus of mothers before this time because it was thought that there were more important things to do around the house (some families were wealthy enough to hire nanny's to entertain the kids_ and so during the Industrial Revolution they started to become more of the focus of married woman which led to family activities during their leisure time.  Later during the Industrial Revolution it was shown that in most families only the man of the house or the husband worked because he was paid a family wage which was used to support the family which in turn allowed the wife to stay home with her children. Before this it was almost always shown that most of the family worked in order to support each other and live a healthy and overall good life . The man also took on the resposibility of teaching the son of the family when he turned 7 the duties he would have when he was older. The same thing goes for the women in the family. By the age of 7 or so the mother would start teaching the girls basic household chores like cooking, cleaning, etc.

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 //2. Family portrait of a husband and wife with their daughter and family pet//. Digital image. //Economic and Social Data Service//. Web. 27 Sept. 2009

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5. "Photo Gallery."  //Economic and Social Data Service//. Web. 27 Sept. 2009. //Posed photograph of hunter and dog, c.1890.// Digital image. //Economic and Social Data Service//. Web. 27 Sept. 2009. = =