Raise a child in the way
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wroughtn_harv
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Harv, you keep posting this kind of stuff and someone might begin to think you were a proud grandparent.
Me? My boy is due to arrive in the end of September so there won't be any pictures of him on the tractor until October. Of course, he won't be alone, his two sisters will be holding him.
Congratulations again
Mike
Me? My boy is due to arrive in the end of September so there won't be any pictures of him on the tractor until October. Of course, he won't be alone, his two sisters will be holding him.
Congratulations again
Mike
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Harvey
I couldn't agree more. My parents and I would be arrested for child endangerment if we had to live with today's practices back then. I was placed on a tractor (IH 1020 with a 2 bottom plow) at the ripe old age of 4 to steer it around the field. My dad was right behind me in case there was trouble. Dad would have me stand on the platform (couldn't reach the seat), he would start the tractor across the field with the instructions if something went wrong, pull the throttle back so it would die. He stepped of the draw bar and got on another tractor and followed me around the field with another plow (probably about a mile per hour or less). I really thought I was something but a lot of kids did that back then.
When my oldest son was 4 years old, he taught his grand dad to race around the yard on a gas powered go cart. He did much better than his grand dad (his grand dad ran into the only tree in the yard when he looked back to see if everyone was watching him).
As long as one take safety precautions, I don't think one can start kids in the learning process too young. I think the learning begets responsibility. Of course, I don't expect too many people to agree with me.
Glad to see it!
Leo in San Diego
I couldn't agree more. My parents and I would be arrested for child endangerment if we had to live with today's practices back then. I was placed on a tractor (IH 1020 with a 2 bottom plow) at the ripe old age of 4 to steer it around the field. My dad was right behind me in case there was trouble. Dad would have me stand on the platform (couldn't reach the seat), he would start the tractor across the field with the instructions if something went wrong, pull the throttle back so it would die. He stepped of the draw bar and got on another tractor and followed me around the field with another plow (probably about a mile per hour or less). I really thought I was something but a lot of kids did that back then.
When my oldest son was 4 years old, he taught his grand dad to race around the yard on a gas powered go cart. He did much better than his grand dad (his grand dad ran into the only tree in the yard when he looked back to see if everyone was watching him).
As long as one take safety precautions, I don't think one can start kids in the learning process too young. I think the learning begets responsibility. Of course, I don't expect too many people to agree with me.
Glad to see it!
Leo in San Diego
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Leo
I couldnt agree more with you
My daughter had her first honda mini trail at 5 years old
Pulling wheelies on it at 6, and hunting deer with me at 8 yrs old. Tonight she's in the hospital giving birth to her first child
I told her to leave her 38 special at home not in her purse!!
next week Im shopping for her sons first BB gun. he gets it at 6yrs. old. By the time hes 10 he will be welding, hunting /forums/images/graemlins/smile.giftractoring, /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif and respecting people as a young adult, or I will show him the woodshed! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Ernie
I couldnt agree more with you
My daughter had her first honda mini trail at 5 years old
Pulling wheelies on it at 6, and hunting deer with me at 8 yrs old. Tonight she's in the hospital giving birth to her first child
I told her to leave her 38 special at home not in her purse!!
next week Im shopping for her sons first BB gun. he gets it at 6yrs. old. By the time hes 10 he will be welding, hunting /forums/images/graemlins/smile.giftractoring, /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif and respecting people as a young adult, or I will show him the woodshed! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Ernie
ScottAR
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Guys, you are not alone... Dad started pulling the farm wagon during corn harvest at 6. When he was 7, he got to pick up the down row. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I was a little behind, I didn't get started on a real tractor till 9.
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wroughtn_harv
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Man ya'll don't want to get me started. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
My philosophy on child raising involves understanding the correlation between knowledge and responsibility. With knowledge comes responsibility. And responsibility only comes with knowledge.
It doesn't matter is the subject is tractors, guns, sex, money, relationships, or management of people or things. The more you know about it the more likely you are going to be responsible with it. It isn't as strong a natural law as gravity, but it's close.
My philosophy on child raising involves understanding the correlation between knowledge and responsibility. With knowledge comes responsibility. And responsibility only comes with knowledge.
It doesn't matter is the subject is tractors, guns, sex, money, relationships, or management of people or things. The more you know about it the more likely you are going to be responsible with it. It isn't as strong a natural law as gravity, but it's close.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( My philosophy on child raising involves understanding the correlation between knowledge and responsibility. With knowledge comes responsibility. And responsibility only comes with knowledge.)</font>
I believe this extends beyond merely child raising, but that is definitely when humans are the most impressionable.
Dave
I believe this extends beyond merely child raising, but that is definitely when humans are the most impressionable.
Dave
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I don't see anything wrong with this picture because the child is just sitting there but it reminded me of a job we were on once at a dairy farm where the wife was feeding calves out in hutches away from the barn. She loads up 5gal pails of milk and bottles in the bucket of the skidsteer, climbs in with a baby the same size as this one in a seat same as this, puts it on her lap and takes off for the calves. The sight of it made my stomach roll. One bump and that seat could have been down under the bucket or machine quicker than lightning. Mind you there was a few places that I saw some pretty stupid goings on.
