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 officials and visitors, as well as collaborating in the preparation community meals.

In addition, the child is fully incorporated into the family, social and community life. Whether family festivals, their calpulli or community, religious or profane, in no space the anahuaca child was in the way or not wanted. Reason why the children knew profane and religious rituals. Another feature of this education was that infants learned to feel useful and to participate in family responsibilities. The children upbringing in the household was an honor and a great responsibility. Mothers breastfed children for up to three or four years.



An important space was occupied by games, toys and sports on education of children and adolescents in the Anahuac. Few civilizations developed so many activities that not only were clever and funny, but that transmitted values such as the ability to rationalize, team work, development of physical skills and knowledge of some rituals. The ball game, the teocuahpatlanque "Voladores de Papantla", Trompo or pepetotl, the patolli, tololoque, cocoyocpatolli, chichina, xocuapahpotolli "game of wooden sticks with the feet", matatena,