Soft suburbanite? LOL
This soft suburbanite has hand stacked 1000 bales of hay in a day on many, many occasions.
From the seventh grade on I and my younger brother and sister were up at five each morning to feed and milk cows before school and repeated chores after school before bed.
Chores were done in a three walled barn, whether the temp was 110 degrees or 20 below zero. Critters get fed, milked, and watered, regardless of weather conditions.
Ok Thats a good upbringing. But your folks accepted that risk of child labor with increased risk of trips, falls, trampling also kids being more susceptible to hypo- and hyperthermia . Some might consider it child abuse. I guess my point is some would accept even more risk, disease and famine ihcluded. Some of us are in jobs like that rignt now. I'd agree some fellas dont understand what the old days entail though.
