Posted by JD Seller on January 31, 2014 at 20:52:48 from (208.126.196.144):
There have been two good posts on here about how fellows are looking at their children/families. Those posts got me to thinking about how we have done in raising the next generation of citizens of this great country.
I have five children: Fours sons and one daughter. They all seem to be successful in their life's endeavors but their Mother and I helped them to get going. I mean this as when they where/are young adults not as children.
My children have never had to face the tough times that their Mother and I started out with. Those life experiences shaped the life my wife and I had. It made us much closer as a couple and also made us a "Team" in life. The hard work really was not a hardship. I can remember many good times that we had while working our butts off.
I can remember loading hay bales behind the baler and dancing a jig on the moving wagon just to see her laugh while driving the tractor. Then maybe a round or two later she would "flash" me just to see me stumble while walking on the moving wagon. Man, I can still see her laughing at me in my mind's eye. That has been over forty years ago now.
I can remember being so cold while "fixing" equipment in the winter in a unheated open shed. She would bring me out hot chocolate to drink. Then she would hold a light, hand me a wrench, or read the repair manual to me while keeping me company while I worked.
I can remember she and I counting the loose change we had to buy groceries for the family.
All of these things are not rare to many that are my age. I think my kids have not gotten to grow with their spouse like my wife and I did. We may have buffered them from the hard times. Has that effected how they have grown together????
They also have not had to live life worrying about where the next meal/or bill money was coming from. I know this has effected their monetary actions. I am much more conservative than they all are about money.
There is a saying that kind of states how your strength is forged by the fire of adversity. Have we/I weaken them by smoothing the way so to speak for them????
This is equipment/tractor related too. They never have "had" to farm/work with junk/bad equipment. By the time they where of age I had a fairly descent line of equipment. They have not had to use the baling wire and duct tape to keep things going. Buy 2-3 pices of "junk" to have the parts to make one work correctly.
So I often wonder how we will stack up in thier eyes????? Did we do right by them????
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