Before the East India Company entered India, I wonder what used to be the various activities (predominantly at home) for toddlers and kids below 7 years of age. The activities must have been daily rituals either religious or community-driven or part of festivities, given the large number of festivals or important thithis (days) in one year.
In traditional Andhra culture, these could have been some activities for sure:
- Music (as cradle rhymes, short songs of nature, land)
- Poetry recital (introduction to literature, existence of a few 'satakam' for kids - 100 poem set)
- Moral science - imbibed in the poem sets
- Mythological stories
- Panchatantra
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