[Armistead]

I enjoyed your post, in that you portrayed how I think many of us older folks grew up. My dad had a rule about getting up, he didn't care what time we went to bed, but we were getting out of bed at 6am and that was 7 days a week and you made your bed up right after you got out of it. The generation of adults in my youth expected kids to do things and also growing up for years on a farm we did things we hated. We got home from school we always had the rotating chores to do a few hours a day before we could play with friends. We all sat at the table for dinner and you ate what was on your plate or did without. As you said, when the adults taught us something the men usually did so with insult and jest, ever reminding us how easy we had it compared to what they went through. I think we were also a generation of learning trades cuz most of us weren't getting loans and going to college. I did trade work for years, hard work, until I built a business as a GC and had employees doing most the physical stuff. I think we just live with a generation today that thinks the world owes them a great job and pay or they'll just live off their parents. Like somehow it's gonna just fall out of the sky. I hear constantly of grown adults in their 20's laying around the house, up all night playing on the computer and sleeping the day away. I think culture has made children so fragile and offended they just aren't gonna learn the lesson of ... hard knocks, cept when no one is there anymore and they're forced to or die.