Young kids nowadays
can identify any number of corporate logoscannot identify leaves from trees in their own garden
Of course their future progress will depend more on knowing where to go to buy what, than on knowing an oak leaf from a maple one
I horrified a pupil today by saying milk came from cows. Ew, she said, no, it comes from bottles. Yersssssssss but ...
Anyone here ever milked a cow, even once
Lifted a hen to take an egg from her nest
Dug up potatoes
Said boo to a goose with its wings out and neck outstretched as it rushed up hissing
I know lots and lots of us have groomed horses
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Lifted a hen to take an egg from her nest
Dug up potatoes
For years.
Biffffffffffff
Hi Luke
Bet we're in the minority, though
I guess I’m a bad mom, huh?
Whole new world now, though, I have some herbs in pots for cooking but would doubtless starve if I had to live off the land, about the only things I even recognize are olive trees (see, not only kids)
but only because YOU keep saying so
Rubbish layer it was, though. Yours?
another idea for the chicken
I won't say it. but she did it
kids, we ate flowers, of course hiding from our parents
it was a macho-kids-thing
our own toys, from whatever material we found
it was a trip, with no drugs
I mean, I remember in 1980s, asthma on new kids
was kind of an epidemy, who knows, they didn't eat
raw grass
Never made much in the way of toys but we spent hours tracking dragons and inventing complicated games when checkers and scrabble got boring - fun
It was fun being a kid, I suppose it is now too, just the games are different
with real toys
Our cribs had lead-based paints
We rode our bikes without helmets
No safety belts in the back seat and as for bouncing around in the back of a bakkie, TREAT.
We drank from the garden hose
etc etc
also I fought a lot with my younger brother, siblings stuff
Noticing one thing, even those who know how to do this stuff, no-one's mentioned their kids doing it too. Bloody, I'm guessing your kids know their way around but most kids are far more at home in a mall than in the countryside
Generation gap! but the horse thing sounds idyllic ...
I never did that, I just planted seeds when it was time, but she researched growing a garden and I was most impressed with her skill at knowledge. She even knew which squash were male and female and I had no idea there even was such a thing.
She's a bit out of the norm for her generation though. Her Dad and I were very much urbanites until she came along. She was a little farm girl from the get-go, although she didn't do a lot of gardening when she was younger, but she did like to help me pick it.
Put her near horses though, and she'd do anything to be able to ride. So mucking stalls, grooming and care were all part of her chores to ride. More kids should have the experience of living on a farm. Best experience ever!
Do you visit often, and do you lend a hand with the chores when you do?
I don't think I ever actually lifted the hen up though.
I can't imagine any kids being so far removed from nature as to truly believe that milk comes from a bottle without knowing its source.
But then again, without putting too much of a dampener on the blog, how many of us know or care where many of the things we use come from?
as if. the parents didn't choose how to raise them.
Yea.- i like how old people think, cause. its always some one else's - fault ..(wait a sec. that's a New, Younger stupid kid excuse)
I think it should be a compulsory part of city kids learning.
This particular kid was 7 years old and lives in Shanghai, which I am led to believe is quite built-up. Could be fake news.
Yes your cogent point could dampen the blog
Thank you for commenting even suppressively
Topic for your next class
I do agree at least one summer at a working farm sharing the long hours and the sheer toil should be compulsory. Closest to hard work I ever did was being a working pupil at a commercial stables and even that changes you. JMO.
That way, they find out exactly where their food comes from, and what it takes to produce it.