To think that child labour has a place in modern society?

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My ds has just helped me deliver fliers for a christmas market - I will pay him a pittence for doing so.

He also has a chort chart where he gets paid 20p a time for jobs such as unloading/loading the dishwasher (on top of his weekly pocket money).

So - child labour is alive and well in my house...

did this with my ds,worked very well and when he left home he could iron,cook and look after himself so I did'nt need to worry about him.Others he shared the flat with practically needed their arses wiping so carry on ,weild that whip

YANBU - DS1 (5) and DS2 (3) have to put own clothes away, tidy playroom and bedroom, they help DH do the garden and on occasion DS2 can be persuaded to clean sofa and chairs with baby wipes, and I don't pay them so slave labour really

When my two are older and pocket money comes into play, it will be dependent on the fact that they have done their duties assigned to them. They can decide if they want the stick or the carrot ...!!

I am all for child labour!

I used child labour all through their childhoods, and payment for jobs over and above the normal stuff you do to share a house together.
The upshot is, I have two lovely helpful teens, one of whom is coping at university because she has essential lifeskills. Which some of her housemates lack.

YANBU.

My 19month old has chores. I put a laundry basket in his roo
and now when I get him changed I either say clean or dirty. If it's dirty he toddles off to put it in the laundry basket and if it's clean he puts it on top of his chest of drawers ready for me to put away. He also puts away his own toys at the end of the evening.

What else can I teach him to do?

Once he's old enough for pocket money though he'll get it regardless because tidying up after himself is something he needs to do without being paid.

Not sure whether that means I'm a mean mummy or a mug mummy though?

We are going to send DS to labour on his grandfather's farm! If he gets to drive the tractor, DS will consider that top wages

agreed.. im considering renting mine out to nannie and grandad..obviously i would take a cut of the gift weather it be biscuits / chocolate

My 14 mo is always helping. She hauls wood, puts things away, picks things up that I drop. Infant labour definitely shouldn't be outlawed, that would be terrible.

When DD was about 5 we were having a new lawn laid but had to get rid of some of the stones from the garden first. I gave DD her little sand bucket and said I would pay her 10p for every time she filled it up with stones. Little so-and-so soon cottoned on to the fact it was easierto go for the grat big ones only as she could fill the bucket really fast then.

Yup, had 2.9yr old DS going round the kitchen with the floor sweeper after dinner saying, "look at the mess you made!" as he went.

Did a good job too.

Ahhh, notquitenormal, that's so sweet! DS tells me "well done" for correctly naming cars, but I've only had a dutiful "good tidying" for real work so far!