Child labour? Or fair division of resources?

These guys are such old hands at packing and you can see it in the way they get in with packing and stacking boxes. However, it isn't all plain sailing. ...
One child has been keeping out clothes to wear for the next few days in what he calls his "survival box". He similarly named our drastically reduced collection of dry goods for the next 3 days- the survival food box.
Is there a tsunami on its way or any other apocalyptic event imminent?
The older dreamier one had to unpack a box to dig out at least one other pair of underwear. #2 was on a go slow, wandering around with hair brush in hand asking the industrious packers whether the colour of her outfit clashed. What a girl! She had no idea why she got shouted at.