Farm Chores Debate - La Follette, TN

[No Mercy for Stupidity]

Teaches them responsibility and how to work for a living.

[Vote]

More of big brother just what we don't need or want! Want to tell us now about are childrens chores? This country is heading straight to hell people please get out and vote and know who and what your voting for.

[Scotch]

Vote is a waste of time, take it from south africa look on your small screen monday we take to the streets then we will get our answer same time ntate

[Scotch]

Mercy 4 stupidity somehow we have to teach them cause you not gonna be 4longer

[HowISeeIt]

There aren't enough parents today who are teaching their kids responsibility, but you can bet farmers with children DO! More power to them!!

[idk]

Agree with ya "HowISeeIt", at the same time I gotta wonder why this question is even being brought up. Is there a rash of discoveries that farm families are OVER working their children, as in overboard slave labor/abuse, or something?

Ugh. I'd hate to find out that's the case, but if it is then I could see why it would be felt necessary to think there needs to be an intervention by means of regulating their work hours through law.

No clue though. Anyone?

[agreed]

If more parents actually raised their kids with a sense of responsibility respect and work ethics we wouldn't have near as much welfare joblessness or drugs

[RANDY MARTIN]

agreed wrote:

If more parents actually raised their kids with a sense of responsibility respect and work ethics we wouldn't have near as much welfare joblessness or drugs

Smartest post for good advice I have ever seen on Topix.Good people please heed this free advice.Thank u "agreed".

[agreed]

Welcome :) and thank you for not starting negative stuff like so many on here do.

[mckelroy]

i woudlnt let my kids work on a farm they coud get kicked by a mule or catch pioson ivy or get chiggers or ticks or get run over by a tarctor so no it,s wrong,

[mckelroy]

an not only that they could get bit by a coperhead say no to puting kids to work on farms.

[RANDY MARTIN]

mckelroy wrote:

i woudlnt let my kids work on a farm they coud get kicked by a mule or catch pioson ivy or get chiggers or ticks or get run over by a tarctor so no it,s wrong,

At least one smart A$$ in every crowd.

[FactsofLife]

mckelroy wrote:

i woudlnt let my kids work on a farm they coud get kicked by a mule or catch pioson ivy or get chiggers or ticks or get run over by a tarctor so no it,s wrong,

Do you let your kids out of a bubble?! They could be in their rooms and heaven forbid a tree fall or a plane come crashing down. So many things can happen that you can't control. Allowing your child to learn responsibility in life would actually make them an upstanding citizen.

[my opinion]

I think farm work is fantastic in many ways: Physical work-out, learning about animals, RESPECT of animals, learning of the land and how to work and nurture the land, of growing food and the benefits and satisfaction of the sense of accomplishment those things teach. Keeps them busy in a positive, and constructive manner; also, a bonding manner, in that of FAMILY working together as a team.

Flip side: If it's about farm owners, having and raising kids for the purpose of slaving them to death as free labor under the GUISE of "learning responsibility", then NO.

Farming is a fantastic education in it's own right; however, should not be a replacement of solid academic education.

BALANCE.

[Monterey Jack]

I think it's a very good idea to work the kids on a farm, home school them, don't allow them to go to movie houses, skating rinks, ball games, carvivals, penny arcades, etc. We don't have a television in the house or allow the kids to have internet, cell phones, etc. We take them to church every time the doors are open and they are very intelligent. I work in the corporate world and my wife home schools our children. She has a master's degree in psychology and she is staying out of the public workforce until our children are raised. We have a 6 acre farm with a limited amount of livestock, remember, "Idol hands are the devil's workshop."

[wow]

Secular educated adults, with advanced degrees, completely shutting their children off from secular educations... and, one of those parents has a Master's in Psychology that finds it a good and healthy means of raising formative minds by completely cutting them off from the rest of the world, of REALITY. Not put forth the effort to DEAL with the realities of life on/of this planet and THEIR place in it.. but COMPLETELY shut them down, and off as human beings of/in it...

Something very, very .... disturbing .... about that.

A Masters in Psychology... how does she - both of you, for that matter - help them integrate into the rest of the world AS YOU ARE,'once they are raised', to function anywhere near whole self-aware productive beings with absolutely NO exposure to the myriad facets of REALITY both good and bad of the world along the way of raising them?

What.... NEVER leave the farm, or your shadows, even when grown? Talk about emotionally screwed. Who not better equipped to do an excellent job of accomplishing that then a Master's of Psychology, and a Corporate World (oh the irony. lol) lemming.

Just damn.

[fact]

Don't work, don't eat was the way we were raised and thats the way mine are being raised now. That is one thing wrong with our youth today, they don't understand the concept of hard work. They think 20 hrs a week in a grocery store is hard, let them work putting 600 lbs of potatoes in the ground to feed the family all winter and see what they call that.. It never killed us then and it aint going to kill them now....