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Life lessons gained by growing up on a farm
ОглавлениеMy five siblings and I worked together on a family farm in the 1950s and 1960s. My first outside chores were to gather eggs and tend the garden. Inside, I helped set the table and do dishes, starting at 2 years old.
As I got older, I was in charge of gathering and burning the trash. My father started paying me for farm work when I was 10 -- cutting seed potatoes for 10 cents a basket. That year I started driving the tractor and spraying weeds for $1 an hour.
I believe that the best way to impart your values to children is to work together.
When I married, one of our goals was to re-create that environment for our four daughters, without having to feed and milk cattle twice a day in the freezing cold.
We discovered that we had to be very intentional to create opportunities for working together that come naturally on a farm. Our daughters worked in our vegetable garden, raised and sold pumpkins and helped us with our business.
Millie McNab Pocatello, Idaho
