We don't know, but probably not.
They must have had a strange family life by today's standards, with Joseph spending much of his time on the second floor of his store.
Two hundred years ago, people were not concerned with their parenting. They had children. but these children were not an important part of their parent's lives.
The lives of children and adults were too different.
One thing I enjoy seeing in rural Costa Rica is adults spending time with children. And they are in no rush to make them grow up. Children can be children as long as they want.
Consider John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers. We know something of his family life from the letters of his wife Abigail. She has her own Wikipedia entry.
To the intense relief of Abigail, she got to live with her family in Paris, where they spoke French as a second language. And where she developed an intense dislike for Thomas Jefferson.
John Quincy Adams, their son. was a President himself.
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