Mummy's no. 1 helper

Growing up, my parents like many of my friends owned a takeaway. There we learned the value of hard work and the role we played in the family business. Weekends and holidays were spent at the counter taking orders and cleaning chip fryers late into the night.

Now without a family business how do we teach our daughter the meaning of work and responsibility. Maybe at four years old it's rather cruel to assign jobs to her but my ethos is if she wants to do it why not let her try.

Hopefully playing housework will become a habit that will last. But for now I'm quite happy to let her be mummy's number one helper.