What was Thomas edisons childhood like?

Answer 1

Thomas Edison was a slow child who took longer than normal to learn things. He developed learning difficulties which often caused him confusion.

He was a slow student at school.

At the age of 12 he lost his hearing and became deaf.

However when he became deaf, his concentration massively improved as there were less sound distractions around him. He went on to become one of the world's greatest scientists and inventors.

Answer 2

Thomas Edison had a difficult childhood. When he was very young, he caught his family's barn on fire and was publicly whipped by his father as a punishment. He also suffered through illness which kept him out of school for quite some time. When he went back to school, his teachers thought that he was low on intelligence, so his mother took him out of school to home school him. He had to stop studying at the age of 12 and go to work.

Answer 3

Thomas Edison's childhood was very hard, for instance he was responsible for their barn burning down and his punishment was being publicly whipped by his father.