Future jobs will need more and more skills (or less and less, but you don't want your children to do those jobs), so helping your children get a good education is the way to go. Preferably without doing like many rich people do, sending them away in expensive private schools to not have to deal with them.
Work that isn't directly related to one's own shelter or full stomach is stupid and anything that saves people from doing any of it is alright in my book. I really hope I never have children but if the worst happens I'll make sure they're cavemen with enormous wallets if they have to venture beyond the reserve I raised them in.