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MIlk Worthy

Got a package from SalsaLady today.  Forget what I ordered, but sure there are things in it that I did not order (free stuff).  Will post reviews in appropriate forum later, but wanted to ramble about my baby girl (10) and this seems like the most appropriate place to do it.
 
Been reviewing products here: http://www.peppersbymail.com/category/chilihead-reviews/
 
Also piling them up because hoping to do social things on the farm this spring.  Give free samples of hot sauce made with the type of pepper someone might be buying and like that.  Daughter wants me to do that but sell milk for $5.00 a cup.

She is also the one who came up with the term "Milk Worthy" to describe hot sauce.  She despises milk and never drinks it.  Never until testing hot sauces with me.  Now the term 'milk worthy' means it is over the top hot for a 10 year old.
 
So she is out shopping with her mom, buying mayonayse and fries for the mayonayse and fries test.  It is her invention, if a sauce is milk worthy then it gets dripped on mayonayse for fries to be dipped in.  Also, dripped on sour cream for chips to be dipped in.  That way she can avoid the second glass of milk.
 
My boy (8) has not gotten truly interested in the business yet other than he loves to burn weeds.  Daughter, helps pull weeds and tend our critters.  Scooting on our butts, she takes one side of a row and I take the other side.  Even at only 10, she keeps pace.  The conversation really helps to keep that pace going well.
 
This summer, she is getting paid fifty bucks a day to run a ren fair booth.  I'll be there forging and answering tough questions, but she is fine with money an great with customers.

So curious, does anyone else involve their kids in work?
 
yup !  mine did their chores ! and they got to have supper , warm bed , education all the good stuff !  Their all grown up and moved out now , but seriously .  they were involved in their grandfathers towing , junk yard , auto repair shop , parts store . big machines , he had everything .     :onfire:
 
My mentor of sorts was 80 something years old when he told me this story.  Was talking about the farm bill that did not pass and how it kept kids from working the family farm.  I asked him, did you work your family farm as a kid.  Oh hell yes.  Did you get paid?  There was supper on the table and food on my feet.

Most of the folk are urban types, nothing different here.  Sometimes feel a bit out of place.  Yep, during this last cold spell I had a baby goat inside in a crate by a heater.  In a couple years, that kid will be a doe giving us milk and cheese.  Its a way of life, one my kids could not enjoy without their help.

So now that online sales matter, yep they are right there for that too.  Many thanks to the comments from folk who get it.

Sicman, thinking you will get this.  Mentor was talking about Mexicans.  Not Hispanic Americans, but Mexican nationals here to work.  He liked me cause I would sling hay in the heat for eight bucks an hour.  I liked it cause nobody gave me shit, he trusted me with huge ass tractors, and I knew that is what he could afford.  I was the only white guy working there, so I asked why in the hell he doesn't hire more Americans. 

"They won;t work A.J."

No shit.  It was before my feet n legs really went south, but I was still thankful for the work.  Most Americans would think guy was taking advantage of my labor but that is what it was worth.  The man bought me lunch every day.  Last time in hospital, long since I worked for him, he brought me as mason jar I probably shouldnt have had.

Americans are lazy cause that is how we are raised.  I refuse abuse my children by raising them to be that way.
 
Some serious sweeping generalizations there. I worked on a farm when in college and from 6 years old I had chores...then at 15 I got a job. Rode my bike 14 miles each way for that job, rain or shine.

I know lots of American kids who aren't afraid of work. Most of my friends kids had chores and now have jobs at 15-16-17

There are plenty of hard working American kids - let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
I do like the term "milk worthy" though.
 
Lucky Dog, yes I am speaking in sweeping terms and of course there are exceptions.  However, sweeping terms are the only way to address the whole of a thing.  For a Mexican national to lawfully work agriculture here in Kentucky, an employer must certify that it can not find Americans to fill the job.  Then the State of Kentucky has to agree.  After that, the Federal government has to certify that it agrees with both the potential employer and the state.  Happens all the time.  In fact, Kentucky agriculture would be dead if not for the fine folk we literally import from Mexico to work our farms.
 
The schedule of our public schools is such that spring and summer break are arranged so kids can work agricultrue.  By virtue of the volume of Mexican nationals authorized to work here, seems obvious that our teens aren't taking enough of those jobs.
 
I too worked from a young age.  By 13, i was working for pioneer seed company detastling corn in the fields.  I think there is much less of that now.  Its not completely gone, but it is certainly on its way out and our government is encouraging that.  All you have to do is look at the Farm Bill which almost past a few years ago.  It would have made it illegal for my kids to go to a chicken swap meet with me, help with kidding the goats, or so much as riding in my lap on the tractor.

I really think one of the reasons our country is having so many problems is that we do not tend to involve our children in work or give them responsibilities as much anymore.
 
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