My life compared to the first colonists of America.

Family Life: Family life in the colonies typically consisted of many children because of most of the massive amounts of farms which needed many people to keep running. They also almost always accepted old relatives that need to be taken care of into their homes without a second thought even though there was almost no room. In my town, there are typically only one or two children in families and they typically receive a good education before they start working in their late teens. They also put their relatives into elderly homes (depending on the occasion) instead of bringing them into their house to stay for the rest of their lives if they become unable to care for themselves.

Education: The education in the first colonies was typically hired a tutor or a parent from another household, however in New England they required proper schools within villages that had more than 100 people. The New England education system, the most like mine, is still very far away from what we use today. For example , the only book they used is called the New England Primer which was used for the alphabet, syllables, and religion. Today we use multiple different books and teachers to learn what we need to learn for our years to come.

City Life: City life in the colonists times is actually pretty similar to my town. People drank in taverns and gossiped in shops. They traded furs, jewelry, and other fine items. Some of the most obvious differences though are the fact that they had open sewers, animal manure, and other nasty stuff lying in their streets (which I hope no-one still has today). They also had a lot of oil and other flammables so they had to keep water buckets outside of their homes in case of an emergency.