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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 516104" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Step... are you quoting my Grandpa?!</p><p>He used to say (back when *I* was a kid), that kids now-a-days have way too much leisure time, which just means they get into way too much trouble. He was done school at 12... and working full-time x2... once for neighbors, to earn money to be able to leave home at 18, and the second helping his Dad with their own outfit. (we heard this story HOW many times? And I was really young when he passed away)</p><p></p><p>And you know, I think he's PARTLY right. Not about being done school at age 12... (difficult child would have liked that...), but about the too-much-leisure-time factor. If kids NEEDED to (it doesn't work when it's manufactured tasks...) split wood, haul water, weed the garden, milk the cows, gather the eggs... just in order for the family to keep things somewhat "together"... then there would be less time and less energy left over for mischief and trouble. But... kids are kids. And there will always be SOME of this stuff, even if the economy gets blasted back to the dirty thirties... I heard all THOSE stories too, and the uncles got into enough trouble back then...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 516104, member: 11791"] Step... are you quoting my Grandpa?! He used to say (back when *I* was a kid), that kids now-a-days have way too much leisure time, which just means they get into way too much trouble. He was done school at 12... and working full-time x2... once for neighbors, to earn money to be able to leave home at 18, and the second helping his Dad with their own outfit. (we heard this story HOW many times? And I was really young when he passed away) And you know, I think he's PARTLY right. Not about being done school at age 12... (difficult child would have liked that...), but about the too-much-leisure-time factor. If kids NEEDED to (it doesn't work when it's manufactured tasks...) split wood, haul water, weed the garden, milk the cows, gather the eggs... just in order for the family to keep things somewhat "together"... then there would be less time and less energy left over for mischief and trouble. But... kids are kids. And there will always be SOME of this stuff, even if the economy gets blasted back to the dirty thirties... I heard all THOSE stories too, and the uncles got into enough trouble back then... [/QUOTE]
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