How to Dress Your Child

c. 1200

“Only cheap clothes should be given to little children. They smudge them with ashes, they stain them, they drool on them with their mouths, they wipe noses dripping with slime on their sleeves.”

Daniel of Beccles, Urbanus magnus

Practical parenting advice from the Middle Ages: just throw an old sack on the child until it stops dripping.

How to Feed Your Child, 1692, here.