Puritan+Daily+Life

The Puritans lived in villages that consisted of four city blocks. The Puritan families consisted of husband, wife and children. The Puritan family was considered the basic unit of society in which the mother and the father had specific tasks.
 * The husband:**
 * In charge of his family, and had the authority in the house.
 * He was to provide goods of the household, love and protect his family and teach his children about life which revolved around God.
 * He was responsible for having a job to support the family
 * The wife:**
 * Cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner
 * Being able to care for the children
 * Raise and teach the children
 * Clean the house
 * Tend the garden and helped in the fields
 * Made their families clothing


 * Children:**
 * had to help with the farming and cooking
 * had to get educated by their mother
 * had to help clean the house
 * made up games for fun
 * when they got old enough they stopped getting and education and the boys went to work with their fathers and the girls turned into their mothers and cooked the dinner an made clothes
 * had very little leisure time in daily life

Since God was the most important part in the Puritans life, prayer was a major part of their daily lives. The Puritan families meditated and prayed before sleep at night, upon rising in the morning, on Saturdays, and at services. They also found it necessary to record their spiritual experience in diaries.

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