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 The children were immediately integrated, as very valuable members to the social and family life. There was a total sense of respect for the infant, both for a cultural value fully admitted as a community manner, as by a large number of human beings integrated by parents, grandparents, godparents, uncles, that supported them. In this nucleus is where values, principles and attitudes were formed that governed the rest of their lives. The home education was practical and by imitation. The example of the family nucleus was basic, starting with the parents.



Parents taught their sons, at an early age, to comply with all the male obligations with the household and the community. In addition to incorporating them into the work made by the father, such as agriculture, ceramic, hunting and fishing, etc., plus community activities, such as collective agricultural work, construction and repair of temples, public buildings, canals, roads, bridges, etc. Mothers disciplined their daughters in household chores. They learned at an early age to make tortillas, embroidery, weaving and spinning, to wash and maintain the house scrupulously clean. As well as community chores as cleaning temples and public buildings, prepare food for dignitaries,