>>>>>in the old days, teens did not have time to get bored easily working in their parents fields
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>>>>Don't know about your family. No one in mine has worked fields for many generations (at least 4, possibly many more than that), and neither did our teens exorcise their boredom by harming random people.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>I had to work every summer after age 15, first at construction then in engineering offices while going to engineering school.
>>>My wife was required to help out on the family farm.
>>>No time to kill people fur fun (not even in the army)
>>>
>>>Peter
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>>Just a FYI. Peter's childhood was not in USA.
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>>Ken
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>Mine wasn't in USA either and my summer jobs started at 13. My mother made my brother when he turned 13 and then me, when I turned 13, to work all summer at a factory as laborers (basically carrying bundles of fabric to seamstresses, it was a clothing factory). My mother's idea was that if we learn the "taste" of hard work we will study better and go to college instead of becoming a plumber (in the old country 'plumber' was the all-catching name for a bad job). Now, sometimes I wish I became a plumber <g>.

I've long thought (and probably expressed here at least once before) that every kid should have one terrible summer job, as a reminder/motivator for getting a good education. And year, I had one.

Tamar