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Bern, my grandmother had eleven children. She worked at home looking after them. Before getting married, she worked in a factory.
As a child she worked, after school.
My grandad worked on the trains to look after the children, a normal job with a normal salary. They had a decent and clean house to live in.
All the eleven children worked, ten of them from the age of 14.
My mother, the seventh child, worked while going to school from the age of eleven, on a farm.
In this present-day society of quangos, it is illegal for a child to work a few hours, but in Dover, in the olden days, my best mate at the age of 10 was up at 5.30 EVERY morning 7 days a week doing a milk-round, helping the milkman, and never came late to school.
Many of the children who came from the villages to JUNIOR school in Dover worked on farms during the holidays, others did news-paper rounds before coming to school, and were never late.
I was working at the age of ten in a restaurant on weekend-evenings washing and drying dishes.
My brother was working at the age of 14 full-time!
My sister was working part-time at the age of 14 while going to school.
We should tell the human-rights quangos to go and get a life and let chidren be able to work part-time, to gather experience and earn some extra money!
