There seems to be a fundamental epistemological difference between how we regard modern children and how we understand children in the past
(Derevenski, JS, 2000)
Discuss with reference to either one object type, or a group of objects that constitute the material culture of children.
Conspicuous by their presence (or relative absence), and originating from hand as well as industrialised production, furniture and artefacts for children communicate messages about adults' attitudes towards the child's physical and psychological development; intimacy and order in the family, control, autonomy…
