[Aquinasfan]

While studying in Boston, Father paid for his studies by making and delivering pizzas, serving as busboy and waiter and even auto mechanic. He learned many trades during those years and these have come in handy now that he has his own parish.

And look how he turned out. This is why I'd like my kids to work their way through school, at least partially.

Personally, I find working in the yard or doing chores to be therapeutic, besides being humbling.

[NYer]

Personally, I find working in the yard or doing chores to be therapeutic, besides being humbling.

You are absolutely correct. Handing our children a costly education has no meaning. If anything, it renders them flippant. Those who have few if any resources, become 'resourceful' in funding their dreams.

Father comes from a family of 9 children - 8 boys and 1 girl. He occasionally shares stories of how the kids tried to pull the wool over the eyes of the parents. On one occasion, after miscalculating the time the parents would be absent from home, the children (most of them were teens) pulled the house apart, always intent on restoring everything to its proper place before the parents returned. Unfortunately, that night, the parents returned early from Church and they were caught. When the parents discovered the dissaray, they sent each child to the corner of a room to kneel in repentant prayer. It obviously left a strong impression :-)