[ I’m all for it. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. Most kids today are so spoiled they turn to drugs and other felonious activities out of sheer boredom. All that energy and (usually) single mom is no where to be seen and supervise. Used to be children were too tired from farm work to get into malevolent deeds.
Nowadays your average white middle class neighborhood is loaded with divorced “soccer moms” where dad has been pushed away through parental alienation tactics and is viewed as merely a wallet to spoil the children as they please. ]
Grew up on a farm and was expected to work to help out onthe farm, the liberals would have had a coronary with all the stuff that I did involving heavy machinery and “dangerous” working conditions and not having a port-a-potty every 50ft...
Sisters and I spent the summers on the farm. Eleven years-old and my uncle says ‘get up on the Massey Ferguson girl and drive her in a straight line’ and I did. Was too little to load the hay on the trailer so he adjusted the labor available.
Best years of my life.