time travel getting youngsters interested in FH

[jaybelnz]

They often do the childhood photo thing of the residents in local rest homes! Also wedding photos.  All unnamed!

Either voting for "beauty" with a coin or a tag note for identification.  The money raised goes to a special afternoon tea.

[ThrelfallYorky]

That's a good idea. The competition organised at our School raised quite a bit for our charity that year, and provoked a great deal of curiosity.
I think most children are quite interested in "The Olden days" - and respond really well to examining how things used to be - even if they find it really hard to believe there was a time before television, a time when 'phones were not mobile, and numbers had to be called up with a circular dial!
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[brigidmac]

I agree .I.m taking a Slovak family to the main museum in Leicester mostly for the football exhibition. and then whatever else they want to see today

 I will take my walkman so we can record our experience
Which is making history !

[brigidmac]

I think "olden day" punishments could be a whole new topic .

An indian friend told me her husbands grandparents used to tie him up when he was bad

as for her her mother deprived her of supper + diddn't eat herslf ..I think that guilt trip would have worked on many good hearted  children.

I only remember lines at school ...
maybe at home  I was just never naughty ..or never found out !

or disaproval was enough to keep me in line .

[ThrelfallYorky]

We used to be given lines as pupils when we did something wrong, during a detention- so silly.
I always used to ask students to write an account of what they'd done wrong, and why they'd done it - then they had to read it aloud to me, next I'd go through it for errors, then they had to write out a fair copy (allegedly "For my files")..... that worked!
After all that palaver, rarely had to do it a second time with any child - from the same family, even.

Quite a while back I made a durable Dunce's Cap from buckram, for a friend, for an "Olden Days" school day. It was still kicking about last year! Pupils loved wearing it ... think we got something wrong there?
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