I have two sons (and a daughter) The oldest was the way you describe when he was a teenager, completely uninterested in anything I was doing. He is 27 now and is still not interested in farming or machinery, but is a good man now and is doing OK. His son is 5 now and loves tractor rides, trains, and trucks, so might turn out more like his grandfather. He won't have the opportunity to grow up on a farm like I did, though. My younger son is more like me than I am. He loves to fix stuff. When he was about one and a half, before he could talk, I was working on my plow, taking it apart to adjust the with of cut from 12" to 14". He crawled in my lap to "help" and I was fine with that, but then he tried to kick me out of the way so he could do it himself. That's where I drew the line. He has been fixing things ever since. He worked for a BTO for a couple of years and they loved the way he maintained and fixed the machinery he was operating, and called him "the welder man". Now at 21, he is a couple of months away from finishing his schooling for aircraft maintenance. To sum up, same genetics, same upbringing, two completely different outcomes. By the way, my daughter is great with animals, but horrible with machinery. I think it's all the luck of the draw. All you can do is your best, and you have to leave the rest up to them and God.
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