To: Erica, Brian, Catherine, and Julia,
For: Sam

                Today money is tight, time is rushed, and most of us feel we could use some help at home. But how many parents have tapped the closest potential resource, their children? “It’s a marvelous theory,” we hear, “however it takes more time than it saves.” Parents might be able to do a task better and faster than their children, but should they? No. We think it is a good idea for our children to work at home because children need to learn to work and parents need their help.

               By the time your children reach eighteen years of age, they will have spent 32,234 hours under your guidance and training. Consider that it takes only 2,100 hours of classroom and outside study time to complete a bachelor’s degree in college and half that time to learn some skilled trades. Your home has sixteen times more teaching hours than does the university. What do you want to do with this time?

401 Ways to Get Your Child to Work at Home

by Bonnie Runyan McCullough

I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. ~ 3 John 4