[Seahawk]

I'll probably get skewered, but I made my children work from a fairly young age, at those tasks they were able to do.

We called them chores when I was a kid and they had to be done. Zippy con zippy excuses.

I grew up on a small ranch, my wife on a farm...we bought this place so we could raise our children to know how to work, how to contribute.

What has changed is both a blessing and a pestilence: Life is so easy most places it is hard to grasp the pernicious change: That unless you work at it, there is nothing for most kids today "to do", little parental impetuous to challenge their kids to do the menial tasks that I had to do.

Everything works so kids don't have to...I have had friends ask me how I corralled my son's video game habit and how they could: Say no and then put them on the business end of a mower. Fire the landscaper.

Rant off.