A child's effort

Tonight, the children were working for the right to select one of the candy bars that we had been given in a Christmas gift. The harder workers got to choose first. Adam was helping me do dishes by drying them and stacking them on the counter for me to put away. It was a sizeable job for a 7 year old, and he recognized that. "I am working harder than anyone else," he informed me. I chuckled, thinking of the big kids downstairs who were picking up and vacuuming whole rooms. He was working hard, for a 7 year old, but not harder than the big kids. Then I though of myself. Do I think this way? Do I look at my efforts in the kingdom and think I am working harder than anyone else when I am really giving a child's effort? Maybe so.