We help out at a local travelling cooperative market (local, organic and/or fair trade foods) from time to time. This morning we went to help them set up in their town centre location; Rob and Emer went first and Linnea and I came along later.
Emer helped face the goods forwards on the shelves, largely off her own bat (no, we don't ask much of a two-year-old, but she tends to offer a great deal) and Linnea put out scoops for the dry goods, set paper bags out by the various sets of weighing scales, and even priced things with the price-gun, very carefully and effectively.
Usually when we shop Linnea selects foods and brings them to me to weigh, or counts eggs into half-dozen boxes for me to put in the bag. Emer carries things around.
I don't know what they are learning from this, but it's valuable, useful work, so they must be learning something. And they like doing it.
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Holly is my chief un-packer as we get a weekly ocado delivery. She's a lot more helpful than Kate, though they have both been brought up the same. Kate is still fabulous & wonderful & perhaps Holly may want to do less when she gets older, who knows?
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