[KobraKai]

Part time farm labor is a good experience for teens, it will give them a perspective about what actual hard work is. In other words, character building.

You make it sound 3rd world.

[Sacajaweau]

I've done it and so did my children. Didn't change our character at all...but we did eat good.

Working on computers also builds character.

So working as a waitress doesn't build character? Climbing utility poles doesn't build character??

You have to work in a field to have good character. It's about choice.

Why work on a farm if you can work as an electricians apprentice...like my son in law.

[MayflowerMadam]

I don’t know if I’d call it actual farm labor, but in summers starting at 14 I’d pick berries and grapes for local farmers. Guess it WAS farming.

[Dustoff45]

In the 60s, in the Big Valley, in California, from 8th grade on until I enlisted into the Army every summer was spent all summer long doing farm work, milking cows, picking peaches, cutting grapes, shoveling manure, irrigating throughout the night, herding cows, oh-dark thirty get-ups every morning.

Finally was out until midnight, while in college, running the tractor through remote fields to cut the alfalfa to haul back to feed the cows at midnight. I still had homework to do. I heard Uncle Sam calling and never went back.

Don't tell me farm work is easy. Yes, it does build character.