When I was a kid I had to get up before dawn, plow the field, milk the cows (40 of them), churn the butter, dig a new well, feed the chickens, put out the fire in the barn, and slaughter the pigs all before school. Then I’d come home, raise more pigs, chop 5 cords of wood, restart the fire in the barn, and harvest the fields before bed.
‘And you try to tell kid that today and they won’t believe you.’ (nod to Monty Python).
You left out the snow and walking ten miles each way uphill to school
and walk to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways?