During Victorian times, childhood was very different from today's. Children in general did not have a lot of communication with their parents, and toys were quite rudimentary.
Rich children were raised and educated by nannies, who were sometimes rather mean. On the other hand, poor children lived in smaller houses or single rooms. Their parents made them work long hours to help pay the bills. Working conditions were difficult - children had to work in dirty and risky circumstances for very little money. For example, in the mining and clothes industry, factories, chimney sweeping and prostitution.
If a Victorian child had to work in the teaching field now , only a wealthy boy who has been to school or university would have the chance to teach there. A girl would have to be educated at home in order to get a job as a nanny - in those times women were not allowed at university.
