Tipping a Kubota

[JimBinMI]

Gordon,

One problem today IS the parents! They both work to maintain a lifestyle (though in some families they both have to work to make ends meet) and then they throw money at the kids because they feel guilty for not spending time with them. There's lot of research on how much spendable income kids have these days, the income is the parents mostly.

Just check out some of the prices on designer clothes and then see how many kids are wearing them. Also, the kids that did the shooting at Columbine High School were children of priviledge, making bombs in their house without the parents knowing. EVERYONE that I have talked to can't believe how kids make bombs in the house and the parents didn't have a clue! And another teacher shooting in Florida yesterday! Sorry, getting too deep for the weekend.

JimBinMI

We boys and our toys!

 

[gordon]

Jim you are 110% correct about the parents throwing money at the kids. I work alot and I can say this I don't throw money at my kids. If they know that by doing nothing they can get money thats exactly what they will do---nothing.
Parents try to put blame on the teachers for their own faults to me a teacher is one of the most under paid for what he or she is expected to do. It's always easier to blame someone else but it's time alot of parents take a good look in the mirror. A kid is only as good as the morals that the parents teach them. It starts and ends at the home not in the school.
Gordon

 

[jdkid]

Hi Gordon
yep ya get my vote im 30 but i grew up with my grandmother and father .did the school of hard knocks only had eneff cash in the famaly to keep food on the table and shoes on our feet .but like you i had to bust my a$$ to buy my frist car if i wanted to get new jeans i had to work carting hay ,choping wood, working in woolsheads,even did some time trapping .now (and with NO out side help i own "read paying off"1/4 of a mill kiwi$$worth of tractor and plant )if it was not for what i had learnt about working i'd still be on a heap like others wating for the govt to pay me handouts.
cya's
JD Kid

 

[Bird]

Yep, things are different nowadays. I'll never forget moving to town from the farm when I was 14, and being absolutely amazed at the fact that city kids have no work to do. All we had in town for me to maintain was a big yard, a few chickens, and a vegetable garden. Of course, with no more hogs, vegetables, fruit, and pecans to sell like I'd been doing, I had to take up lawnmowing to make some money, but gosh, that was easy money compared to the farm./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[W5FL]

Bird, I think the biggest things kids miss in the city is having room to do things and to work off frustration and get plenty of exercise. Animals don't do very well when over crowded and people don't seem to function properly either. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[W5FL]

jkid,

I always enjoy your posts as you have enough land to do full scale farming. I have talked to a lot of people in New Zealand on Amateur Radio since I was 15 years old in 1955. Then they would always ask if all people in Texas were cowboys and wore boots. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

You can farm on almost any size property. When we moved to the city we only had 2 1/2 acres. My dad farmed the two acres and put it in vegetables. We sure had all we could eat and give away. He had a little Farmall gasoline crank type tractor. It was about a 1944 version and was one of the first to have a hydraulic lift for the plow. No such thing as a 3 point on Farmalls at that time. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

Wen, that's a theory I've subscribed to for many years.

Bird

 

[gordon]

Ditto to that my childern have plenty of land to play on and so do their friends. It's amazing how many of the kids friends come over and think its so neat to have private bike trails in the woods. Whats even better is that the kids aren't hanging out on some streetcorner with nothing better to do and by being around the house I can keep an eye on them.

 

[gordon]

I thought that it was a law in Texas about the boots and hat, am I wrong on this?/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Here is a great useless fact that New Zealand is the highest producer of methane gas!!!!

 

[Dick]

They did a survey a year or so ago on this board (ok, the forerunner to this board) on parcel sizes that folks had. I can't remember which lot size had the biggest representation but I seem to remember the 5-10 acre folks were the biggest number.

That would seem to indicate (to me anyway) that the small horse place/rural suburb folks seemed to frequent this location on a large scale.