Well said Rankrank1: I was guilty of not being able to spend a lot of time with my children as they grew up but my wife was always a stay at home Mom so they got a lot of attention from her.
I now have the time to spend with the grand kids. I think this is kind of how life works. When you are young you are busting your butt to provide for your family and then when you are older you have the time to spend with the next generation. I can take a day off now and not worry about paying my bills. When I was young I did not have that option. Things where real close money wise.
As for the cost of gifts and such. The grand daughters have not had that much spent on their horse hobby. The horse stable was here from when horses where the only form of power you had. Their horses have been gotten from people that either had to move and could not take their horses or people that could no longer afford to feed them. My grand daughters have to work at home and here on the farm to off set the cost of the feed/care of their horses. Each of them has an account that is credited with the value of their work and the cost of feed/hay/vet care an such is subtracted off. My SIL is a CPA and she set up each girl a spread sheet so they each have to keep their own profit/loss record on the cost of their hobby. Their parents and I "audit" their books once each month. If they are falling behind they had to catch up some extra chores to have the account balance by the next month or they get limited on the time they get to spend with their horse. So far in the year we have done this we never have had to do this. They all have a surplus in their "horse account".
An example of their chores is cleaning the semi truck inside and out. The youngest is only 9 years old so she cleans the inside of the cabs out every week. She washes the windows and sweeps the floors. She gets "paid" ten dollars a truck for each complete cleaning. The older girls wash the outsides off each week.
It is funny to see the oldest back a semi into the shop by herself to do the washing. I am willing to bet that there are not too many teenage girls that can drive a full size semi and back it too. Is this a skill I thinks she will need later in life? Not really but you never know. I always kept my CDL as a form of insurance against job loss. So any skill you learn can help you later in life.
I am not a fan of horses. I have seen too many people waste fortunes on fooling with them. I do think this will be a positive thing for my grand daughters. They are not just getting things handed to them. Plus it is better than many of the other things they could get into. It is much better for them to spend the time on my farm here than in some shopping mall or playing on a computer in the house.
I am telling them to not think that they will get to spend what they see others do on their horse hobby. When they are adults they can spend what they want on this hobby if it still draws their attention. So there is no high priced horse stuff in their futures unless they earn it themselves.
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