Girls and boys help reconcile motherhood and agricultural work

This is Irene’s account, born in 1921, her experience as a caretaker for her sister in 1927, when she was six years old:

“My sister was born on the patron’s day and the bread [the rye] was already high, I went with my mother and left my sister asleep in the bread, because my brothers my brothers left to look for nests and I went with them to run leaving my little sister alone, who woke up and started crying, with the good luck that my aunt who was ploughing there next to her, heard it and took her to my mother, who was also ploughing in. After running around all afternoon I went back to look for my sister, but there was I disappeared and I did not dare to go home without her, when in the end I came back and they beat me. “