How about encouraging a budding entomologist?

When I was a little girl, my dad and I would take walks around the block. After a rain, one day, I saw some worms on the sidewalk, and I screamed. I was afraid of these squirmy things keeping me from walking on the sidewalk. My father looked at me, took my hand, and ushered me to the grass next to the sidewalk. He said, "Wait here."

Did you help your parents with a vegetable garden when you were young?

My dad loved to garden and would plant tomatoes every year. When I was little, he asked me if I would help him.

We started at the local hardware store and bought a packet of tomato seeds, which cost 15 cents. Dad showed me how to take some potting soil (he always kept some in his garden shed) and fill the egg holders of a used egg carton mother gave us instead of throwing it out.

Let's do a quick survey. How many are in favor of child labor? Against?

Child labor…these words conjure up images of children working from dawn to dusk in spinning mills, shucking clams, or spraying arsenic on cotton fields in the 19th century or early 20th century. All of us would say that we have moved to a better place.