Where R The Kids

[Fly Rod]

When growing up we as kids went around knocking on doors and ask if people wanted their property shoveled for a price....where R the kids today?....plenty of teenage kids in neighborhood none with a shovel on their shoulder knocking on doors.....I assume they rather be in the house playing a disfunctional game on their computer...the parents allo this....Oh well....

[JamesJet]

My local paper has an add / service where kids sign up with their numbers so they can be reached. I think its great. Maybe yours does too? I totally agree though, something is just missing about the will to work and earn your own stuff.

[PaulS]

The local kids in my neighborhood are all at their condos in VT skiing. The people from Bridgeport flood my town whenever it snows to try picking up shoveling jobs. I always looked forward to storms to make some $.

[iamskippy]

Originally Posted by Fly Rod

When growing up we as kids went around knocking on doors and ask if people wanted their property shoveled for a price....where R the kids today?....plenty of teenage kids in neighborhood none with a shovel on their shoulder knocking on doors.....I assume they rather be in the house playing a disfunctional game on their computer...the parents allo this....Oh well....

Wait you want these kids to get out from in front of the TV/PC/Game and exert more energy then stuffing their fat faces with hot pockets and Doritos?

That time is over, i did a paper back in collage on the obesity of children title "Fat America - How lazy can our kids get".

[Raven]

Originally Posted by iamskippy

these kids get in front of the TV/PC/Game stuffing their fat faces with hot pockets and Doritos?
How lazy can our kids get".

you forgot PIZZA

how could you be so thoughtless LOL

i think their objective is to have a coronary before age 21

[iamskippy]

Originally Posted by Raven

i think their objective is to have a coronary before age 21

Fine by me.....
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by iamskippy

i did a paper back in collage

So you have a Collage Edumacation....
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[iamskippy]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

So you have a Collage Edumacation....
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Didnt say i graduated lol just kidding i did and yeah i am smart thanks for asking lol
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by iamskippy

Didnt say i graduated lol just kidding i did and yeah i am smart thanks for asking lol
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

You spelled "College" wrong.....

[Raider Ronnie]

My KID drove one of my plow trucks 25 straight hrs this past storm and 39 hrs the storm before.
His younger brother shoveled for plenty of hrs while we were out in the plow trucks.
Parents are as much to blame for lazy kids today as the kid.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[iamskippy]

Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

My KID drove one of my plow trucks 25 straight hrs this past storm and 39 hrs the storm before.
His younger brother shoveled for plenty of hrs while we were out in the plow trucks.
Parents are as much to blame for lazy kids today as the kid.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Parents and the government/system. Remember every kid is entitled today...
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by iamskippy

Parents and the government/system. Remember every kid is entitled today...
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Parents are a kids 1st teacher and part of their education should include the fact our government sucks !

[tysdad115]

Originally Posted by iamskippy

Parents and the government/system. Remember every kid is entitled today...
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

My son is entitled to my foot in his ass if he isn't out shoveling the older neighbors we have!
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[nightfighter]

Don't even get me going... My son went off and pulled a 30 hour shift shoveling a commercial site with two of his buddies. But he had blown me off earlier in the week. He lives at his mother's, so I can't always reach out to "touch someone." Pisses me the ef off.... Tough love is coming. Gonna let him learn from the school of hard knocks. In the past I have hired other kids who would throw two shovels of snow in between checking their I Phone..... Fortunately I got a real good 20 yo kid who knows how to work, knows to leave his phone in the truck while we are out working, was available and ready to go early. Is an apprentice electrician, so he appreciated the storm and roof pay.

[Fishpart]

Originally Posted by tysdad115

My son is entitled to my foot in his ass if he isn't out shoveling the older neighbors we have!
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Then off to track practice and school robotics team.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[Dick Durand]

A few years ago my mother-in-law and step father-in-law, both octogenarians, lived a few houses away from his granddaughter and great grandson who was about 14 years old at the time. My brother-in-law and I would routinely shovel them out, but sometimes it was a problem. We asked the kid if he would be able to shovel the one car length driveway and the walkway. His response in front of his mother was to ask , "How much?"
Mom didn't say anything. The kid would have been duly compensated. End of story - he never shoveled, and Mom missed a valuable teaching opportunity.

[tysdad115]

Originally Posted by Fishpart

Then off to track practice and school robotics team.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Lol..track practice..not my boy, there's a reason he plays left tackle!
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[sburnsey931]

I can only imagine asking my old man when I was a kid..... Dad I need a cell phone, an XBOX 360, a smart TV and a computer in my room.
He'd have died laughing.
How many families buy these things for their kids and then wonder how come they are broke.
Don't get me wrong My kids had those things.....they just earned them.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[ThrowingTimber]

The work ethic is passed on from their parents.

Raiders guys are out there hustling hard, raider instilled that in them.

If a yuppie grew up thinking manual labor was a mexican war hero and called the shovel guy each time it snowed, yuppies son will do the same, when he has a brood of yuplets.

We've got 2 "babies" 18 & 15 and the girls are out there moving snow and helping us out as well as our elderly neighbors.

Would also like to add that some parents may not want or allow their children to go out and do work for strangers etc if they dont know the folks on a personal level. Its a whole new world out there! Remember riding bicycles without helmets? Riding skateboards without looking like an nhl goalie or an umpire?

[Jackbass]

Things were definitely less cushy when I was younger. We were expected to do more. I think about some of the responsibilities I had as a kid (only boy to boot) I can't imagine my 3 yr old at 9 doing some of what I did. I was fortunate my father taught me how to use the snow blower at 9 or 10 so I had free reign on snow days. I also had the wood stove to tend and all the wood to deal with, we generally did 5 cords a season.

My father had it tougher than me for sure. He was wiring houses with his father at 9 or ten. Lead solder explains a lot lol
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[JamesJet]

Ty protects the blind side? nothing wrong with that, its the highest paid lineman. But remember there is always shot put.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[Fishpart]

Have a Pole Vaulter and a Hammer Thrower, neither event is for the physically or mentally weak..

[Rockfish9]

all is not lost... there are a few kids out there.. that want/know how to work.... and everyone that said it's on the parents is right... my neighbor has 4 kids.. 2 boys and twin 9y.o. girls.. all those kids have chores.. all of them get out and help clear their driveway.. the oldest boy ( 15) takes the snow blower and goes around the neighborhood helping anyone that needs it... for FREE... there is another house a few doors down with teen age boys... mom and dad own a restaurant...those boys go help Dad every day after school... they do all the shoveling in their yard...no snow blower... so all is not lost.... now I wont go on about the "entitled" ones that live at the end of the circle...as all have said. It's on the parents..