Well I had to teach a high school kid how to sweep a floor this summer. Today I had to teach him how to coil up a garden hose. I look over tonight and he's got his mouth on one trying to blow the water out! I showed him how to use gravity as your friend. Nice kid, his dad had no patience I heard so he didn't teach him much. I'm going to put him on a ripper this fall (I think). Lots of kids come here and I have to teach them the simplest work. Can't learn a lot on a video game
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It is such a shame, and when you know a sack of hammers has more brains. I use the air hose in the fall to blow out the garden hose for storage. Was showing the next door neighbors two little girls how a couple of drops of oil floats on water! You know what totally blew their minds? Have you seen the Disney animation, Tangled ? It is Rapunzel . They have a part where they launch "Wishing Lanterns". If you go on fleabey you can buy 50 of them in mixed colors for like $23.oo. They were just so blasted when I helped them launch a couple of them.
larry@stinescorner
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Many kids and grownups are amazed when we dig some potatoes.They didnt know they grow underground.Hardly anyone here in NJ knows what a patty pan squash is.And if ypu give some people fresh picked sweetcorn,,see them next week and ask them how they liked it,,,some say,I dont know.,I havent cooked it yet,gonna have it this week...lol
flying belgian
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My rental houses are all 2 story so every year I have to teach the collage student tenants how to close downstairs registers when running ac. and close upstairs registers when running heat. You know what their come back is? "What's a register"
Wife's boss just went through this with a new hire 16 year old girl who got hired to work the deli. She admits that she's never done anything in her life. Didn't know how to wash dishes or sweep the floor. She spent a few years living with her dad and his 2nd wife. Last year she decided to move to live with her mom. 1st thing mom told her was you have to get a job! She tried getting her dad to let her come back but here dad told her that her mom is right and she needs to learn how to work!
Rick
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I think I've mentioned this before on this forum.
My wife worked in student housing at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln campus. At the start of every fall semester, she'd have to teach a number of female freshmen how to wash and dry a load of clothes. They'd be starting college and had never even run a load of clothes through a washer. They couldn't comprehend why you had to separate the whites from colors, etc.
My wife said the guys caught on faster than the girls.
Guess our daughter spoiled us. She was doing her own laundry, and, if necessary, cooking her own meals when she was 12.
My wife worked in student housing at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln campus. At the start of every fall semester, she'd have to teach a number of female freshmen how to wash and dry a load of clothes. They'd be starting college and had never even run a load of clothes through a washer. They couldn't comprehend why you had to separate the whites from colors, etc.
My wife said the guys caught on faster than the girls.
Guess our daughter spoiled us. She was doing her own laundry, and, if necessary, cooking her own meals when she was 12.
I had my 11 year old nephew mow our grass twice this summer with our zero-turn. I told him to slow down when turning around at the ends because he was leaving skips and momentum kept him from being able to straighten out the mower.
His reply was "Well this is the way I do it on my video game".
His reply was "Well this is the way I do it on my video game".
4020 electrician
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Well... Now you know why it's hard to find "good help". The kids that know how to work are hard to find. I have 5 from 13 down and one boy. Their mother is an elementary school teacher and there are no video games here. 4H, berries, organic row crops, and educational trips... Kids are forced with a different way of growing up. Mom and Dad both work and the TV is a cheap babysitter. It's coming down to who will do physical labor. Last I checked you don't even need a degree...
You might chuckle at this but our 19 year daughter has worked at Tractor Supply for the last 2 years while going to college .
Yep, she has her own horse that she takes care of, has tractor pulled the last few years, shoots pretty good and can get them pesky raccoons when needed!
Yep, she has her own horse that she takes care of, has tractor pulled the last few years, shoots pretty good and can get them pesky raccoons when needed!
tracto-man
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Lots of teenagers in my parts claim to be oh so "country" just because where they live or their parents got them a brand new F-150. Yet so many of them won't eat eggs that come from our chickens. That is just way too disgusting! But they'll happily eat the ones that have gone through chemical what not? Was at a friends hobby farm a year or 2 ago with some of these kids and they just couldn't handle that a bull named "sloppy joe" was gonna get killed! If the needed beef they should buy it at the store! And likewise I know several people who won't eat venison as it is just so cruel to kill a deer and eat it.
Oh well, time goes on. I have my handful of buddies with our tractors. we don't care if "they" call us farmers or cool or whatever. I enjoy doing work for what I eat
Oh well, time goes on. I have my handful of buddies with our tractors. we don't care if "they" call us farmers or cool or whatever. I enjoy doing work for what I eat
flying belgian
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When my daughter and sil bought a house with large yard I gave them my JD all wheel steer mower. First time mowing sil ran one side up on retaining wall and got hung up. Said it took four suburban neighbors and a twin pack of beer to get that thing down. And he is 38 yrs. old.
blue water massey
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if it's not connected to a computer or a smart phone a lot of kids don't know how to use or do simple things
I'm glad that some parents believe in teaching them how to use what most of us take for common sense everyday usable objects
some try but the kids hit them with it's to hard, I'm too busy or host of other excuses and are never asked again
there's going to be an awful lot of bewildered people that just don't know how to fend or keep things simple should the computer world ever crashes or there's a major electric outage
and it's now not just kids
I see a lot of the parents with teenage kids pulling them and an RV here into the campground that don't know how to hook up the water hose, sewers, were the electric plug is or how to use the appliances in them
you would think with how most of them are connected online these days that they can look up almost anything on Y-Tube
I used to think why would someone take te time to make a video of simple things like rolling up a hose or pushing a broom as pointless
but not anymore it's vital as way too many just don't know
ok rant over
I'm glad that some parents believe in teaching them how to use what most of us take for common sense everyday usable objects
some try but the kids hit them with it's to hard, I'm too busy or host of other excuses and are never asked again
there's going to be an awful lot of bewildered people that just don't know how to fend or keep things simple should the computer world ever crashes or there's a major electric outage
and it's now not just kids
I see a lot of the parents with teenage kids pulling them and an RV here into the campground that don't know how to hook up the water hose, sewers, were the electric plug is or how to use the appliances in them
you would think with how most of them are connected online these days that they can look up almost anything on Y-Tube
I used to think why would someone take te time to make a video of simple things like rolling up a hose or pushing a broom as pointless
but not anymore it's vital as way too many just don't know
ok rant over
My oldest daughter, who is now 24, came to me one weekend while she was still in college. "Dad, don't get me wrong, I still hate all the stuff you made us do when I was growing up. Especially helping to dig post holes. But I have found out a lot of my friends don't know how to do crap! I may not want to ever do some things again but at least I know how in case I ever have to."
I feel I have done my job.
I feel I have done my job.
Traditional Farmer
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As time goes on a lot of skills fall by the wayside.Could you go harness up a team of horses and plow with them? If not my grandfather would have put you in the same
category as the fellow that couldn't sweep a floor.Yea he taught me how to do it in case I needed to know some day thankfully that's one skill I haven't had to use since his last work
horse died that we used to cultivate the garden.
category as the fellow that couldn't sweep a floor.Yea he taught me how to do it in case I needed to know some day thankfully that's one skill I haven't had to use since his last work
horse died that we used to cultivate the garden.
farmerwithmutt
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I read once that it takes longer to teach and get a kid to do a job then do it yourself. Maybe this is the problem today .
Actually that has always been the case. It always takes much longer to teach a person to do a job than it takes to just do it yourself. The first time you show someone how to do something you have two people tied up doing the work one should be doing and it usually takes twice as long too. That's why training is seen as an investment. You spend the time now and hopefully it pays off sometime in the future.
A guy I work with, almost 50 y.o.) has always lived in a small city all is life and he's never used a riding mower either. He now has about 5 acres and it came with an older Husqvarna rider. He couldn't figure out why it wouldn't go, engine runs, blades engage. Had someone pick it up, haul it in to their shop and tell him it was a broken drive belt (it's a hydro). He could have fixed it for the cost of the belt if he'd have listened to me and got under it and checked it out. Tried to help, but he lives too far away to go over and look at it.
My 18 year old son bought a "new" car last week. He called to tell me that his girlfriend thinks it's pretty cool that he can drive a clutch, so "thanks for that". Made my day. It definitely takes longer to show them how. I spent a lot of time this summer working w/ my 11 year old daughter. We had fun, she learned a lot, and I'm not too concerned that we only got about half the stuff on my list done. Last year at this time she was able to send Grandma pictures of the picnic table she built, and a video of her welding (on my tractor, so I'm not even OT).
Larry, I am just 10 days shy of 73 and on farm all my life and gardened as well but I have never heard the term patty pan squash so I do not know what it is. And as far as the sweet corn now it comes from the grocery store and is already a week old before I buy it and then I cannot eat what I buy at a time so it is still anouther couple of weeks before it gets used. I never could tell difference in that 3 week old corn over first day corn.
Donald Lehman
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Yup.
Donald Lehman
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See my post over on TT. Lol!
I have more patience than my father at least. I could learn from him, but it was tough. I had to learn on my own by just doing it mostly. That's OK too. I decided even with three little girls I was going to teach them some of life's simplest things. I didn't realize the hose coiling, so we're doing that next! We've got the sweeping thing down, putting a worm on a hook, taking care of chickens, driving, gun safety and shooting, etc. My in-laws think I'm a hillbilly for sure, but there's nothing wrong with learning that stuff.
I try to keep one or two high-school or college age helpers around all the time. I had one a few years ago that I thought would be good. Strong, sturdy lad. I paid him $12/hr. He helped me a few weekends taking down and sawing up some big trees. Then we spent a day driving t-posts in the old fashioned way and then putting up wire fence. After the t-post episode, he quit answering his phone and I never saw him again! Ha. Some folks don't like to work unless there is an engine involved.
rdandersom
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Lots of reasons for it.Parents can't teach what they don't know,simple skills aren't valued,nothing is worth fixing or maintaining in a throwaway society,I could go on and on.The lad you mentioned sounds like he might have sense and work ethic enough to work out fine.My own situation was that my dad taught me a lot watching him from a distance but he was too busy to take the time to explain much.I still can't do much of anything around the house because he would send me to the barn and do it himself.
Pair-a-dice farm
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Well IF he is willing to learn he may end up being a really good hand. I've had a couple work for me that were raised by their mothers and their dead beat daddy was no where to be found. One of them wasn't interested in learning. The other was like a sponge and absorbed everything I told him. He ended up being one of the best hands I have ever seen. I have little patients if they aren't willing to learn and want to stay on the phone. But if they show a little aptitude and willingness to learn, I believe, they are worth the effort to get them going.
Determined
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Coiling hose and extension cords has always been a sore spot with my boys.
I am left handed and they are both right handed.
Once a hose or cord has been coiled up a few times by a lefty it takes a memory and trying to coil it right handed requires stretching the whole thing out to get the bends out of it,
They have about given up and coil everything left handed now
I am left handed and they are both right handed.
Once a hose or cord has been coiled up a few times by a lefty it takes a memory and trying to coil it right handed requires stretching the whole thing out to get the bends out of it,
They have about given up and coil everything left handed now
GeneMO
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Some things are so common, you dont even give it a thought. Coiling a hose, who woulda thought?
It's always been somewhat this way though. Buddy of mine married a girl in the mid 70's. He mother had not wanted to bother with teaching her to cook. She didn't know how to boil water and heat up hot dogs. No lie !!
You just never know what you may have to do in a pinch. In a survival situation. If you dont even know how to coil a hose, chance are you will be SOL if you are ever stranded up on a snowy mountain pass with a stalled car. Or lost, or just plain anything!!
You have made me think though. My grandaughters are 10 hours away. Age 6 and 8. They love to learn. Next trip down, they are going to learn to hammer a nail, saw a board, and other handy tasks.
Gene
It's always been somewhat this way though. Buddy of mine married a girl in the mid 70's. He mother had not wanted to bother with teaching her to cook. She didn't know how to boil water and heat up hot dogs. No lie !!
You just never know what you may have to do in a pinch. In a survival situation. If you dont even know how to coil a hose, chance are you will be SOL if you are ever stranded up on a snowy mountain pass with a stalled car. Or lost, or just plain anything!!
You have made me think though. My grandaughters are 10 hours away. Age 6 and 8. They love to learn. Next trip down, they are going to learn to hammer a nail, saw a board, and other handy tasks.
Gene
Dune Country
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My son (now 22) has always hung around the shop when I was doing a restoration or repair.
He now works in our ATV shop as a mechanic, in 15 years he's the best mechanic I have had.
He started up a company doing custom printing on goggle straps and gloves.
Even designed his own goggles and found a company in Pakistan to make them, ever walk into a Western Union and try to send 3 grand to Pakistan?? :roll:
He now works in our ATV shop as a mechanic, in 15 years he's the best mechanic I have had.
He started up a company doing custom printing on goggle straps and gloves.
Even designed his own goggles and found a company in Pakistan to make them, ever walk into a Western Union and try to send 3 grand to Pakistan?? :roll:
Hobo,NC
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Kaepernick is guaranteed $11.9 million from the 49ers this season, whether he is on the roster or not.
Take the money away and I bet he stands up.
Hobo,NC
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woops wrong post.
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