my son got his first paying job when he was 4 years old. we had a little part-time family cleaning business to earn some extra income. my son’s job was to pull out staples from the carpet of an office we cleaned. he received 1 penny for every staple collected. on a good day he could earn $1.00—a lot of money for a 4-year-old back then. he has been working hard ever since…and so has our daughter.
last week, we bought our 4-year-old grandson his own garden hoe. he spent almost an hour out in the garden with grandpa learning how to use the hoe to turn over the soil. he 