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  I think you are wrong about the long hours.
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  True; if you work in an office (your own), it is only acceptable to hire your children to fake positions for income-splitting purposes. >
  
  This is tacit acknowledgement that offices are hellholes. A victorian child might get pulled into a copper loom and die, but they wouldn't risk going through two hours of annual review where all participants had to pretend any of it matters. >
  
  It’s socially acceptable to have your children do work for your own business but not socially acceptable to have your children do work that someone else is employing you to do for them. >
  
  Or if you own your own business, I helped my mom with her business starting at 12 >
  
  What was that like? >
  
  She was a cabinetry and millwork contractor mostly for airports, when I was 12 I helped move cabinets and ticket gate counters in Boston International airport, it was about 6 hours a night for a week and a half but I made bank and bought an xbox after, most of it went to savings though >
  
  and here's me milking cows and feeding calves and whatnot and all i have to show for it at the end of the day is a lack of bruises :P
  gratz on a better childhood than mine :) >
  
  My dad was a programmer so that would have been a bit difficult to help. Like what, am I supposed to do his code reviews for him? >
  
  you can be the coffee-fetcher :P
  and i dunno, if he does anything with visuals, you can always ask the kid if this looks good or if that looks better
  be like, 'hey, this function needs to output this' and then just have your kid blackbox a simple function that adds 2 numbers or so and then he feels he is helping and he's learning coding >
  
  Most farms are family owned and operated, and don't require commuting or long hours