Child Labor, Kids Cleaning Off the Dust in the Car

In Thailand, I have the luxury of riding the Jeep Cherokee of my sister. We go places and shop around with it. When we have long weekends we also sometimes go to Pattaya Beach and we drove like 2 hours from our place in AIT. It’s really convenient to travel with a jeep. My sister have 3 kids and they love to play around at the back seat and baggage space.You know kids age from 2-12 years when on the road brings all their toys, food, drinks, pillows and whatever they can get hold on during the long trips. It’s fun but after that you get to face the task of cleaning the car.

The cost of having a car washed is around 200 baht for an Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV). It includes washing, polishing and clean the insides of the car. Once in every month there are times that we clean the car with our nephews and niece. It’s a fun experience because kids are just too eager to lend a hand. A simple help of holding the brush or the water hose is enough for them. Though they volunteer at times to vacuum the floor carpet and seats of the car. They enjoy the portable vacuum cleaner which can be plugged in to the cigarette heater port. I think having a bigger car vacuum cleaner mounted on the garage wall would be too much for them. Though how I wish to have one which I can use to clean our portable floor carpet.

Those are the times that I miss having with the kids who are now in Finland. No, it’s not child labor. It’s actually a child’s labor of love that brought life’s simple pleasures. How I wish that we could still enjoy the same time together in the future.