Life of a Baby Spartan

     Being a Spartan wasn't all fun and games, especially if you were just a new baby being brought into this world. Sparta had strict rules about newborns and every newborn in Sparta underwent an evaluation by a council of inspectors who's job was to make sure the baby was in tip top physical condition and showed no signs of defects. If the baby was healthy, well, he or she got to live, but if they were unhealthy, they weren't so lucky. The babies who weren't healthy at birth were literally left to die. These babies had to suffer and slowly die because they were not up to these "standards" that spartans held.
     Once these children passed this test of health, it didn't get much easier for them. Rumors have it that often these babies were bathed in wine instead of water and were taught at a young age the idea of "tough love". These children weren't nourished by a mothers love, but instead they were taught that it wasn't ok to be scared and that they needed to fend for themselves.
     Once a Spartan boy turned 7 he was taken away from his home and put into military training schools. This was what it meant to be a Spartan. From the time they are born they are taught that the most important thing in life is to be strong and at age 7 they are taken away from their families and begin training for the rest of their lives. This is a sad way to live and these children of Sparta were given absolutely no childhood. As for the little girls, although they didn't have to go away to these military schools, they didn't have it easy either. Women served one purpose and that was to have children. The girls were allowed to stay home but were put under intense education and were put through various activities from a young age to prepare them and make them strong enough to endure motherhood.