I sometimes drive through PA Amish country
I see kids who look to be 9-10 years-old on tractors plowing fields.
Pick up a McGuffey Reader.
Those kids were alright.
My BIL had pics of him working on one of the farm’s tractors when he was 7.
Most of the farmers’ kids in our church growing up were driving the heavy equipment before they were 10. At the end of the day they were “plinking” with their very own guns.
I was 10 when I drove my first full size tractor. At 16 I hired on as an out of state grain truck driver, with no drivers license. In my mid 20’s I was driving big rig truck hauling dozers and excavators with no brakes or proper lights at night. I learned at an early age to take risks.
A kid today is simply afraid to take the simplest risk. Who knows, they might see their own shadow and exhaust themselves to death trying to run away from it before it kills them.
Tractors in Amish areas?