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buckeyefarmer
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Making cracklings and getting sick from eating so many
What farm task do kids today know nothing about.
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Most kids today know nothing about anything (except video gaming and computers) mostly because their parents haven't taken the time to teach them. Just like in the insurance commercial where the kid has a flat tire and doesn't even know what a lug wrench is. Most kids don't live on a farm or have never been exposed to farm life so they wont know how to do anything on a farm.
I grew up on a farm, fixing things that broke by either mechanical skills or welding, driving tractors, doctoring animals, milking, slaughtering etc. We did it all on the farm and bought very little from stores, mostly flour, salt, coffee and sugar, the rest we grew ourselves. I don't think I could be that self sufficient today. But I did teach all my kids (boys and girls)how to do minor mechanic work on cars including changing a flat tire.
I grew up on a farm, fixing things that broke by either mechanical skills or welding, driving tractors, doctoring animals, milking, slaughtering etc. We did it all on the farm and bought very little from stores, mostly flour, salt, coffee and sugar, the rest we grew ourselves. I don't think I could be that self sufficient today. But I did teach all my kids (boys and girls)how to do minor mechanic work on cars including changing a flat tire.
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buckeyefarmer
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Likewise. We did it all on the farm, nothing was hired out, we didnt have the money.
But, i didn't want to learn it either, back then. Now, there are so many things i wish i had paid closer attention to back then.
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Reminds me of an article I read sometime back, regarding what great soldiers American farm boys made during WWII. Seems they were all handy with tools, equipment, machinery, firearms, etc. They could improvise about anything in the field; an advantage that enemy soldiers, as a rule, didn't have.
oosik
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I have to agree with GF. Most kids today know very little about anything. If it isn't on their smart phone - they will have no knowledge of it. AND farm tasks are only a very small portion of what they don't know. Yaa - the kid didn't know what a lug wrench was...........and so the world turns. He was probably lucky - had he known - probably would have killed himself changing the tire.
Whatever they are being taught in school today - it has very little to do with "making their way in life". Saw an article yesterday that somewhat represents the way things are today - "the ten vehicles that are lemons even before they leave the new car lot".
Whatever they are being taught in school today - it has very little to do with "making their way in life". Saw an article yesterday that somewhat represents the way things are today - "the ten vehicles that are lemons even before they leave the new car lot".
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We are moving closer and closer to a V.R. world...It won't be too long before people will be able to experience just about anything in a virtual reality matrix...
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So I work with my grandkids and I try to get them involved with projects I'm working on. Like planting the garden cleaning veggies for dinner. Maintenance on the tractor, fixing the shed, build a bird house. Just little projects on the weekend.
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One of the things our parents insisted we learn was how to catch a live chicken and everything it takes to finally eat that chicken.
Squirrel, rabbit and pheasant were easy, we didn't have to catch them, we shot em.
Squirrel, rabbit and pheasant were easy, we didn't have to catch them, we shot em.
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At the grocery store today a millennial at the self check out lane turned to his mother who appeared to be about 60 and said "but I don't know how to self check out !" Honest, this kid who looked to be in his early twenties and apparently shopped for groceries with his mother, did not know how to operate the self checkout. I was stunned and then I remembered this little song.
