Here's the summary if you don't want to read the short article.
"But it does seem like the overwhelming parenting lesson from the distant past is that children had more responsibilities, less adult supervision and certainly no indulgence from their parents. It is a picture of a childhood very different from our own, at least from the privileged perspective of life in Western society."
What ancient footprints can tell us about what it was like
to be a child in prehistoric times
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-ancient-footprints-child-prehistoric.html
"But it does seem like the overwhelming parenting lesson from the distant past is that children had more responsibilities, less adult supervision and certainly no indulgence from their parents. It is a picture of a childhood very different from our own, at least from the privileged perspective of life in Western society."
What ancient footprints can tell us about what it was like
to be a child in prehistoric times
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-ancient-footprints-child-prehistoric.html