Kids these Days....

I catch myself saying these words, and have to laugh. Kids these days!!! Words that I remember my Parents and Grandparents saying. I would roll my eyes, and think to myself "they have no IDEA how bad I have it!"  yeah right. psh. One thing we did learn that children of the next generation aren't is work ethics. Everything will come easy to them. They do not know what "hard" work is. I didn't grow up where I had hard chores as a child, but I started cleaning and helping take care of my brothers at an early age. There is NO way I would trust my 14 y.o. home alone with the two younger ones for longer than 15 minutes.

Last night I came up with an idea....there should be a camp where we send our kids to a farm. Their daily activities would be getting up at the crack of dawn to tend to all of the farm animals. I would like to see my son get up at 5 am to milk a cow.  Go back to basics, show them how to work for their food and shelter.Maybe they could spend some time on a cattle drive?? no cell phones, no internet, no bed, learn to cook over a fire, and sleep on the ground. I think after a couple of weeks of this my son would not mind unloading the dishes 3 times a week!!

I have to make sure that my sons appreciate what they have. In the last month I have started teaching them how to cook. Showing them that it isn't just where the MOM goes and "POOF!" there is this dinner. It is like giving them a view of what happens behind the curtain. After they are done they feel a sense of accomplishment, and a new found respect for how much work it is. Let's teach our children how to survive.

I leave this blog with one of my favorite quotes:

"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime."-Author Unknown.