Not saying this is the only answer but it worked of me. I grew up on a farm, we had dairy and stock cows, hogs, chickens, horses. The total farm in the 1970s was 2560 acres. We farmed about half of it with 2 5-14 bottom plows. The rest was pasture and hay ground that we mowed with a 9 foot mower. The corn & sunflowers were colvated with a 4 row. Point beening there wasn't much time to do anything but work so that is all I knew. I remember one time dad told my brother and I that if we wanted to go to the dance on Saturday night, we would have to have the planting done by then. We did it. I was also fortunate enough to have both my grandpa's show me how to fix anything. So I gained a lot of skills in my early ears.
Fast forward to my kids; video games were not allowed in our home. Personally I think a game now and then is OK but to spend hours on them is nothing but mind numbing activity. TV was what we could get off the air, Chores had to be done before school and after school. If the water froze in the winter, they had to figure out how to thaw it out. If the fence was down, they fixed it. They were all out for sports so sometimes that meant working in the dark in the winter time because of practice. They all got good grades too. Now my kids all are doing well, in fact they are making more money than I am,. And most important, none of them are living in my basement.
Point is there is nothing wrong with child labor as long as it not abused i.e. pulling kids out of school to work in a factory. They do need mentoring, develop problem solving skills and not Google every question put to them,
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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