My oldest son (age 37) and I are pretty close, but he's literary, and I'm practical. I bought a VW bug that needed some work when he was 16- he helped me, and did his best to be interested, but it just wasn't "him". While I'm buttoning up the transaxle, he's writing a poem about the whole experience.
So to each his own. Best advice I ever got about raising kids was this- instead of you trying to make him interested in your world, do it the other way around- you work on supporting what he's interested in. I still remember my Dad, who had no interest in cars or mechanical things at all, taking me to a hot rod car show 60 miles from home when I was 12, and also putting me in charge of fixing stuff around the farm, while he did the stuff you would normally assign a kid to do. He bought me tools, and encouraged me any way he could. And by the time I was grown, I had pretty much figured out the differences between us. Came home on break from college, and he asked if I'd take a look at his work car, because battery wasn't charging. I looked, and the generator belt was completely missing. Could have busted his chops by pointing that out, but instead I just bought another and put it on, gave him the receipt and said "there was a problem with the belt", and we were both happy.
I realize it much harder today, because kids are just interested in video games and cell phones- but you have to grit your teeth and try to find common ground. And remember, its much less useful to be mechanical today that it used to be, because we can't fix much of anything anymore on modern stuff.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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