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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] working kids
  • Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:53:28 -0400

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:40:36 -0400, you wrote:


>What we seem to have is a setup in which most kids aren't allowed to
>work until they've got it firmly in their heads that they don't want
>to; and then are supposed to be suddenly grown up at a magic age and
>know how to work, when they've been carefully prevented from learning
>how. (I include myself in this, and it took me probably about ten years
>to figure it out.)
>

Parents can help to prevent this syndrome from developing,
though, by assigning (age-appropriate) chores from an early
age.

Pat
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