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How much responsibility to give children and how reliable?
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 3689972" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I was hand hoeing beet from the age of seven. I think we got 10p a row and the rows were over 600 metres long. I had a group of cade lambs to feed from primary school days, before I went to school and after I came home. Also a coup of bantams. I did a bit of tractor driving and by 16 I was driving an old combine at harvest time. I wasn't really helped with this as the old folk were busy so has to get it going myself before I started. Looking back I probably made quite a mess. My Dad always got us involved with projects in the workshop but money and time was always tight so there wasn't much mollycoddling.</p><p></p><p>Any pocket money earned was a kind of secondary consideration really as we were made aware from an early age that our small farm business depended on us doing things right and pulling together. Seeing your Dad and uncle completely knackered also made you want to help. I remember my uncle sweating while hand building bales on the bale trailer while he was recovering from having had a heart attack. We were helping him because we didn't want him to have another heart attack more than anything and didn't want the farm to go under. Parents worries rubbed off on us.</p><p></p><p>Whether this did us any good I'm not sure, but I still have a sense that I can't rest until everything is up to date or I'm getting too tired to do the job properly.</p><p></p><p>My father was and still is a perfectionist which isn't easy to live with or really the best way sometimes with but it is slightly catching as well.</p><p></p><p>The way your parents work does rub off on you if you work with them from an early age. </p><p></p><p>I don't think it's just a case of saying here's £5 if you'll clean that tractor. You have to incentivise by giving them some sort of stake in the longer term outcome of a small part of the enterprise, rearing some stock for sale, doing up a piece of machinery that kind of thing.</p><p></p><p>Children should still have time to be children though. Looking back I maybe got too wrapped up in the farm too early. Dunno.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 3689972, member: 2119"] I was hand hoeing beet from the age of seven. I think we got 10p a row and the rows were over 600 metres long. I had a group of cade lambs to feed from primary school days, before I went to school and after I came home. Also a coup of bantams. I did a bit of tractor driving and by 16 I was driving an old combine at harvest time. I wasn't really helped with this as the old folk were busy so has to get it going myself before I started. Looking back I probably made quite a mess. My Dad always got us involved with projects in the workshop but money and time was always tight so there wasn't much mollycoddling. Any pocket money earned was a kind of secondary consideration really as we were made aware from an early age that our small farm business depended on us doing things right and pulling together. Seeing your Dad and uncle completely knackered also made you want to help. I remember my uncle sweating while hand building bales on the bale trailer while he was recovering from having had a heart attack. We were helping him because we didn't want him to have another heart attack more than anything and didn't want the farm to go under. Parents worries rubbed off on us. Whether this did us any good I'm not sure, but I still have a sense that I can't rest until everything is up to date or I'm getting too tired to do the job properly. My father was and still is a perfectionist which isn't easy to live with or really the best way sometimes with but it is slightly catching as well. The way your parents work does rub off on you if you work with them from an early age. I don't think it's just a case of saying here's £5 if you'll clean that tractor. You have to incentivise by giving them some sort of stake in the longer term outcome of a small part of the enterprise, rearing some stock for sale, doing up a piece of machinery that kind of thing. Children should still have time to be children though. Looking back I maybe got too wrapped up in the farm too early. Dunno. [/QUOTE]
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