We have been saying on this blog for a couple of years that children can and should be taught at an early age to help out in the home.  This is the beauty and essence of homeschooling: to train your children to be useful, joyful and hardworking human beings.  If you send your children to daycare or public school, you lose that opportunity.  When you place your children under some strangers' care, you are giving up your rights to shape the characters of your children, which is by the way, God-ordained responsibility for us parents.  When you train and teach your children to help do the chores, you will enjoy and welcome more of them.  The children, in turn, will be happier because they know they are important and needed in the family as well.

Here, Shoshana (5 years old) and cutting up some green onions while Melody (3 years old) is giving her a hand.