Child labor laws are for the weak

I was surprised to see that our little two-year-old is kicking ass in the "Gross Motor Skills" category, which we've lovingly renamed "Child-Labor-Laws-Be-Damned". I see that she got her highest scores in sweeping, cleaning, setting the table, serving the food and cracking nuts (?) which is awesome because she's now qualified to work as a janitor for squirrels. At two! We're very proud. And kind of confused. My first thought was that this seems like a pretty sweet deal for you guys. I'm paying you $12k a year to use my daughter as a mini-housekeeper. Honestly, it seems like a lot of unpaid manual labor for a two year old but I guess I can see how those skills could help gross motor skill development. And then I got a little further down on the list and found out that she's also being graded on something else: Her ability to polish the silver.

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