A noble child is more or less free to relax and play until it reaches the age of seven. For the first two years it is nursed by a wetnurse, and later it is taken care off by a nurse. These pampered years are much unlike those of commoners’ infants who are expected to help around the house or farm as soon as they can talk. At about seven, a child’s schooling begins in the home. Emphasis is on the manly arts of fencing and fighting for men, and needlework, household management and social skill, as well as to use the knife for self-defence and honorable suicide, is taught to noble girls . A large part of a noble child’s education is simply watching their parents at work. Nowadays, most noble children of either sex are taught at least the rudiments of reading and writing.
Around the age of ten, both boys and girls are sent off to a different household, where they continue their education. They may also be kept at home and taught by their parent(s), this is more common for females than for males.