Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p "Historians have commonly characterized Puritan family life as joyless, repressive, even brutal. By such accounts, Puritan parents disciplined their children needlessly, crushed their wills, responded callously to their deaths, and routinely sent them out of the home to be raised by cold-hearted surrogates. The diary of prominent Boston jurist and merchant Samuel Sewall (1651-1730) contradicts this grim portrait of the Puritan household, depicting instead a nurturing and caring place for child-rearing.". }
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- catalog description ""Historians have commonly characterized Puritan family life as joyless, repressive, even brutal. By such accounts, Puritan parents disciplined their children needlessly, crushed their wills, responded callously to their deaths, and routinely sent them out of the home to be raised by cold-hearted surrogates. The diary of prominent Boston jurist and merchant Samuel Sewall (1651-1730) contradicts this grim portrait of the Puritan household, depicting instead a nurturing and caring place for child-rearing."".