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    I really feel sorry for some of today's kids

    We have a young man helping us clean out fence rows. I don't mean it unkindly when I say he isn't very smart, it is just a fact.

    He told DH he was wanted to be a farmer. DH asked him if he was going to raise goats like we do. He said he didn't really like goats....but he did kinda like our big red goat. Big red goat??? He pointed to the Jersey bull calf. And DH had to explain it wasn't a goat, it was an entirely different species.

    I kid you not.

    Seriously, it is sad that people think their food comes on little styrofoam packages from the grocery store!
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    Its not only sad in many ways but also can be dangerous. We came from Maine and the out of state permits for hunting should have been issued with pictures of what could be shot. I kid you not..........2 guys from out of state tried to tag a couple of cows at the local tagging station in Rangeley, Maine just a few years ago. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't lived so close. The other problem that seems to come up pretty frequently is not having sufficient training and common sense to make sure they know ''exactly' what the heck they are shooting at. Seems like hunters bite the dust every year even when wearing that (never did learn to like it) bright orange. Chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows doesn't it........LOL?

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    • #3
      Having been a youth leader at a church many moons ago, and now working at a major, respected University, I can tell you that some of these kids are as dumb as rocks... Clueless! Wouldn't know logical reasoning if it was labeled on a shelf, sprinkled on like salt... Or smart but with serious personaility problems...

      The only kids that have impressed me the last decade or so have been HOME-SCHOOLED kids from parents who had some firing dendrites themselves...

      Rmpl
      Last edited by Rmplstlskn; 11-24-2012, 08:32 PM.
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      • #4
        I do too.
        I am glad I am letting my son be a kid but also teaching him skills.

        Yeah he may have an iPod that he rocks on but be helped me clean my skull cap antler skinning.
        He helped me fix my blower
        He will go in the woods in a heartbeat.

        I grew up with Nintendo but I played outside.

        I have friends with kids that are freakin clueless.

        My son is five and goes primitive camping with me. Starting scouts next year.

        I just hope he doesn't make friends with these lil zombie worthless pukes.
        You know what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like this?

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        • #5
          Among other reasons for decaying intelligence among our youth is that there is no critical thinking taught in the gov't. schools anymore. Kids used to be taught facts but now, since most teachers are liberals, kids are taught liberal ideology. Between many parents making no time for their kids and liberal schools it's no wonder they're turning out like they are. Rmplstlksn is right....HOMESCHOOL!
          Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

          Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)

          JOSEPH WAS A PREPPER!
          NOAH WAS A PREPPER!
          I'M A PREPPER TOO!

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          • #6
            Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but it's not just the kids. Ask a national park Ranger about some of the questions that people ask them, such as, "What time do you turn the waterfalls on in the morning?" and "Where do you keep all the animals at night?" Sad, but true.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Bearman202 View Post
              Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but it's not just the kids. Ask a national park Ranger about some of the questions that people ask them, such as, "What time do you turn the waterfalls on in the morning?" and "Where do you keep all the animals at night?" Sad, but true.
              I agree with you Bearman. When we had our businesses in Red River, NM we got questions like, "At what elevation do the dear turn into elk?" Poker faced, I would relpy, "at about 9,000 ft." (Red River was a little over 8,600 elevation).

              I think the trouble started with my generation. Our parents and their generation grew up in the great depression, fought in WW11, Korea and Vietnam and after seeing economic disaster and the destruction of wars they settled down and worked hard to make sure their kids didn't have to go through the same trials. In one way that was great because that mindset was what made the country boom for decades and their children and grandchildren reaped the benefits. The problem with this though is that many of our parents did too much for us. They were so afraid of failure at both a family and national level they didn't allow us to fall on our face and fail once in a while. History shows that true success usually follows failure, sometimes a lot of failure but it's that drive to succeed that has been lost in our generation and the two following us. We've not been allowed to fail and so we've breed 3 generations of people that have come to believe that they "deserve" everything in the interest of "fairness". Individualism has gone out the window and been replaced by socialism...and so here we are.
              Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

              Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)

              JOSEPH WAS A PREPPER!
              NOAH WAS A PREPPER!
              I'M A PREPPER TOO!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by JUSTIFIED View Post
                I agree with you Bearman. When we had our businesses in Red River, NM we got questions like, "At what elevation do the dear turn into elk?" Poker faced, I would relpy, "at about 9,000 ft." (Red River was a little over 8,600 elevation).

                I think the trouble started with my generation. Our parents and their generation grew up in the great depression, fought in WW11, Korea and Vietnam and after seeing economic disaster and the destruction of wars they settled down and worked hard to make sure their kids didn't have to go through the same trials. In one way that was great because that mindset was what made the country boom for decades and their children and grandchildren reaped the benefits. The problem with this though is that many of our parents did too much for us. They were so afraid of failure at both a family and national level they didn't allow us to fall on our face and fail once in a while. History shows that true success usually follows failure, sometimes a lot of failure but it's that drive to succeed that has been lost in our generation and the two following us. We've not been allowed to fail and so we've breed 3 generations of people that have come to believe that they "deserve" everything in the interest of "fairness". Individualism has gone out the window and been replaced by socialism...and so here we are.
                Preach it! I have been saying since I was a teen, that many parents in trying to give their children everything they never had, have done them a great dis-service.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by MustangGal View Post
                  Preach it! I have been saying since I was a teen, that many parents in trying to give their children everything they never had, have done them a great dis-service.
                  ....and you and I are paying the price....
                  Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

                  Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)

                  JOSEPH WAS A PREPPER!
                  NOAH WAS A PREPPER!
                  I'M A PREPPER TOO!

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