Are you taking advantage of my daughter to build your booming businsess?
The funny thing was, I was the one who encouraged Chaya to take the job to begin with.
When Sara Lieber — who ran the Sunday Sparks clubs that all my girls had loved attending when they were younger — offered Chaya a job, together with a few of her friends, I thought it was a great idea.
Chaya, my youngest, was good with kids, she enjoyed being a day camp counselor, and the job — assisting with the baking club — was right up her alley. And she’d been looking for a way to earn money so she could save up to pay for part of the cost of the teen sleepaway camp she’d been wanting to go to.
We’ve never done sleepaway camp before, but Chaya’s been begging, her friends all go, and I really want to make it work for her. But the costs are exorbitant — the reason we’d never done this for our other daughters. After discussing it, we decided to offer to cover a significant part of the costs, if she’d contribute to cover the rest. And she was on board — eager to prove herself, excited at the opportunity.
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