[LearnsFromMistakes]

Urban based children (and some of their parents) have only the vaguest (and generally wrong) idea of what they and their children have missed. (Let the flames begin...)

Until you have cleaned out farrowing houses in 100 degree heat or smashed thru the ice in an automatic hog waterer, you haven't really lived.

I told my kids about this accident last night. They are 10 and 8, and we have a go-kart on the farm at grandpa's. Sobering...

[skraeling]

Until you have cleaned out farrowing houses in 100 degree heat or smashed thru the ice in an automatic hog waterer, you haven't really lived.

You got that right! Or at least you don't really comprehend where your food comes from.

[skraeling]

told my kids about this accident last night. They are 10 and 8, and we have a go-kart on the farm at grandpa's.

There are some city knowitalls who would insist your kids have government issued drivers licenses to drive those go carts or the lawnmower around the farmstead. But be careful anyway.