* Fishing's not catching,

* I just pulled up a family video of several kids, mine, my siblings, friends, making commercial marbles for sale pulling glass from a furnace and rolling them on a bench, using optic moulds, canes for decoration, etc .. at the age of five.

Sure, we weren't running them like chimney sweeps or coal mine donkeys 24/7 - that's what they wanted to do for pocket money - make their own, how ever many, and sell them.

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rubzah 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Fishing's not catching

Sounds like something from an MLM seminar. "Telling's not selling!"

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nephihaha 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I doubt she was doing much in this direction until at least the age of eleven and even then...

	▲	defrost 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I can't say either way, having never met her. I can say that Sandy over the road (now deceased, made it to 94) was hitching bullocks to sled a water tank to a spring and back every morning setting out at 4am from the age of five or so - both his parents died of influenza just a few years later. My own father, (still alive, born 1935) was shooting and trapping rabbits at that age to feed the family.
	▲	cucumber3732842 an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		In the days before OSHA there was a lot of stuff on a lobster boat an 8yo can be tasked with.
	▲	barry-cotter 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Depressing to realise that soon most people will not even have second hand experience with children being useful.