I was a paid rec sports referee at 13 for the younger kids league, and I worked unpaid for the family business before that. There's no way I could have, or shou

I was a paid rec sports referee at 13 for the younger kids league, and I worked unpaid for the family business before that. There's no way I could have, or should have, done that full-time. A few hours on the weekends or the odd weeknight was a good experience. My wife grew up on a farm, so she was doing age-appropriate farm work at an even younger age, and she also thinks it was a good experience. There's a difference between child labor and a child doing age-appropriate work.