1.0Digital Childhoodshttps://shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dirMegan Buiocchihttps://shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/author/mbuiocchi/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="iPqXEwX6lS"><a href="https://shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/first-day-of-school/">First Day of School</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/first-day-of-school/embed/#?secret=iPqXEwX6lS" width="600" height="338" title="“First Day of School” — Digital Childhoods" data-secret="iPqXEwX6lS" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> https://shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Sam-Owen-Janssons-notebook-scaled.jpg19202560In 1927 a librarian at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm sat down to interview Susanna Jansson, born in 1844. Susanna grew up in Lindesberg, in the centre of the Swedish iron working region. He asked her to tell him everything she could recall from her childhood. He also asked her to describe her first school years, at which she laughed and told the story of how she witnessed firsthand how the school came into existence. At the time, villages like hers did not necessarily have formal schools, but with the 1842 School Act all parishes were required to have at