[napscoordinator]

Whatever. These were not family members. These were kids forced to do this. If you want to hire 18 year olds to work your business than you should be training them. It is your business and you should have some personal interest in making sure these kids know what you want them to do. Big difference between 18 years old and these children. We didn't work until out of high school or even college in some cases in my family and we are all professionals working in good jobs. Kids need to be concentrating on education as a child not working.....they have their whole life to work. My kids don't work either. They have chores like take out the trash. But not cutting down acres of wheat.

[KittenClaws]

Whatever. These were not family members. These were kids forced to do this. If you want to hire 18 year olds to work your business than you should be training them. It is your business and you should have some personal interest in making sure these kids know what you want them to do. Big difference between 18 years old and these children. We didn't work until out of high school or even college in some cases in my family and we are all professionals working in good jobs. Kids need to be concentrating on education as a child not working.....they have their whole life to work. My kids don't work either. They have chores like take out the trash. But not cutting down acres of wheat.

Yeah, whatever.

Good that your kids are all pro and all that.

Not all families and all kids have that luxury. That's friggin' life.

My mom picked Cotton and soy beans in her childhood. It was tough on her. But she never saw herself as a poor abused baby.

No. She raised children who knew the value of work, and of education..we did not want to go where she had been.

So, some children have it hard...that's LIFE.

[goodnesswins]

YOU didn’t work until you were out of high school? You must have been RICH!

[panthermom]

Sorry, but I don’t agree. I was 9 mucking stalls all morning, feeding the horses, etc. and I didn’t even get paid, I got to ride, 8hr day and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. My own sons, worked a neighbors farm, picking rocks out of the pastures and building and fixing fences.

[MayflowerMadam]

“My kids don’t work either. They have chores like take out the trash.”

How precious. I worked in H.R. for years, and employees with this background had a great sense of entitlement; delusions of grandeur with corresponding salary expectation; no clue how to interact with, or respect, supervisors; and had the reputation of being arrogant a-holes and buffoons. Turned out they were more trouble than they were worth. (But I’m sure your kids will be different.)