For Ross, a child under the age of 7 is considered a baby (or "child", "child") - an entity that is not completely independent and not yet divided by gender in the social sense. The actions of children at this age were not seen as conscious, and this period itself was considered a transitional phase from the "foreign" world to a life full of family.
The words used to refer to a child belonged to the castrated gender, since the gender of the child at that age did not yet have a social meaning. The word "child" was often used to describe the youngest children who are breastfed.
In the popular imagination, children were not yet seen as full-fledged people. Due to the high mortality rate, it was believed that a child under the age of seven was still on the border between the worlds.
Both boys and girls up to the age of seven wore the same long linen shirt, belted with a braid. Boys don't wear their first pants (outlets) until they reach the age of seven.
Hair was believed to contain a child's life force, so children were not usually cut until the age of 7. They also tried not to punish them strictly for their actions, attributing their pranks to unreasonableness, although from the age of 3-5 they began to accustom them to simple housework.
To protect the baby from evil spirits and diseases, he was often given a temporary, "unattractive" pet name (for example, Nejdan, Nekras, Fool, or names based on the names of animals and plants).