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For generations in my family it has been a tradition that once the boys come of age..(14)..they are put on 'detention for six months hard labor'..this of course means working out on a farm during their free time and learning the ropes of working on the land and with animals. It happens whether we live in the city or towns.

Well today my son Liam 14 had his first day learning to drive a tractor and be subjected to the harsh reality of work....We live on a the beautiful coast and enjoy an optimum lifestyle but he journeyed at 4.30 a.m. on a bus to partake in what has been a long life tradtition.

As a woman I was thrust in a world tyoday unfamiliar to me filled with mixed emotions, the mother side wanted to keep him in bed and make him hot chocolate...the wisdom side knew through experience that is has been a healthy and rewarding doorway into manhood....

Do you continue any traditons that are proudly part of your family and ancestors?

kinda the same as you, work ethic...it's a wonderful thing to be taught if you don't already possess it. I'm sure your son will feel quite the man when he is done

Thanks Princess...its always hard to let go as a mother and stop mothering but I know in my heart it helps shape boys into fine young men.

my son is 22 and I still can't stop mothering, but I don't think that they really want us to, after all, they only have 1 mother for a lifetime! ....... .........

Have to say thats a great tradition to have. Must learn very quickly that hard work pays off.. Mre people should do something like that!

If I had a hat I'd tip it for you.

I think it is good work ethics, prepare him for the world out there. It will only strengthen him, not take away from anything you have done for him over the years.

Where are you Zarah? It doesn't sound like a Dublin thing.

No

I am coming there is three weeks so you will have to put with me then...

I am living in Australia at the moment but lived in lots of countries through medical and humanitarian work but born is Sweden...

Thank Goodness for my son...he would probably get buried under a blizzard.

We had a tiny one of those the other day.....so I wouldn't rule out some May snow in these climate change days!!

Great......I hate the cold...the only swede I know that craves for sun and coconut oil...Gee hope the guiness keeps me happy

I turned 17 and my uncle Bullie got me pissed, flakeOOOOOOOOO . I woke in the morning at sea on a leaky old tub, no land in site in any direction
. The bilege pumps broken don't let us sink the old prick says and he farkin goes to sleep
. I climbed up and down the boat with a bucket for 6 hours with the worst hangover ever while uncle bullie slept He wasn't the sort you ever disturbed or crossed

I ended up having the time of my life targeting Marlin and diving at the Three Kings. Now on occasion I get to play uncle Bullies part