Posted by jdemaris on January 13, 2011 at 07:41:12 from (67.142.130.22):
In Reply to: Snow shovelers posted by Showcrop on January 13, 2011 at 07:27:35:
I don't see kids doing hardly anything like that any more. Same goes with farm work, like during haying season. Standard practice 20 years ago in my area was to always hire kids by the day, when hay had to be done. Not anymore.
But, you can't just blame it on kids. The way things are now-adays, I've be worried about a kid getting hurt (or at least claiming so) and having the parents sue me. It's also hard to keep up with all the labor-laws that keep changing.
From the tons of money I see spent on many kids now-adays, I doubt making a few bucks shoveling walks or roofs is much incentive for many of them.
On the same subject, how many adults do you see actually doing their own work and not hiring out - when it comes to "menial" tasks? Seems to get less and less as time goes on.
When I was a kid, every week-end you'd see adults with their hoods open, working on their own cars. Washing cars in their own driveways with a bucket and sponge. Cutting grass, shoveling snow, trimming trees, cutting wood, etc. Not so much anymore. If the adults are hardly doing it anymore, where are the kids going to get the incentive. That is, unless they want to be the opposite of their parents. That's what many famous shrinks call "paradoxical learning." If you want your kid to do something, tell him/her NOT too. That was a favorite of Viktor Frankl (famous head-shrinker).
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