What jobs can you safely give a 12 year old son in

[Pat Ferrett]

main thing is variety

they will soon get fed up doing repetative work.

My son has worked/helped me for a long time but ONLY when he wanted to.

We have had a lot of quality time whilst achieving something as obviously you have to work differently with them around.

I did buy some arborcoms so i could make sure he was ok and they are fantastic and had a lot of very good chats whilst working rather than me out working and him playing on the gaystation.

Also dont try to work all day but go out do a bit of work then then spend the earnings going out for lunch and off to pictures.

That is real life work pays for treats:thumbup:

 

P.s skyhuck would you like to adopt me

 

Good post Boob:thumbup1:

[gensetsteve]

Spent the afternoon with him sorting off cuts ready to put through upcut machine interest falls off after about an hour. Needs a bit of fun in between delivering and driving things. Think he is helping his mum load kindlet tommorrow. He is a grafter but also more academic than most so should do well in school unlikely to follow my proffessions too bright, hence dont really want him cutting bits off. Has the usual excessive gaystation habits so a bit more practical physical activity will help develop different areas of the brain. If they enjoy helping through the holidays and it puts money in their pockets I think its a good thing. I see to many mature students waiting for their parents to buy them a car and pay for their lessons before sponging on the dole till their parents die and leave an inheritance.

[harvey b davison]

bow saw and an axe, let him cut / chop his own sticks, bag em and sell them as a seperate entity, end off holidays see his face light up when he sees how much he has earned.

 

I was also going to add, let him go knocking on doors selling his wares, but its too dangerous now. i did this back in the 80's, much safer then.

[Coed y Cardi]

Get yourself a woodmizer my 7 year old is a real dab hand on it !!

[kindlett]

Im doing the same with my 10year old son as his grandad did with me give him a few afternoons a week pay him and make him feel special ,today i took him to deliver 275 nets of logs he was a big help as i unload by hand ,he is coming to feed the kindlet machine for me on monday afternoon he's done that since he was 6years old ,teach them young i say lol .

but if my lad says he doesnt want to come to the yard and he wants to play with his mates he does ,he wont be bossed about takes after his old man lol.

[Stereo]

Don't assume that because your child Is academically good that they should go into banking or accountancy. they may not WANT to. I was a farmers boy who found myself doing Maths stats at a level and sitting the entrance exam to read history at Oxford. I was pushed this way. Away from the hard life my parents endured. They meant well. Now I've got to 40 really regret that I was pushed away from a 'real life'.

[gensetsteve]

Don't assume that because your child Is academically good that they should go into banking or accountancy. they may not WANT to. I was a farmers boy who found myself doing Maths stats at a level and sitting the entrance exam to read history at Oxford. I was pushed this way. Away from the hard life my parents endured. They meant well. Now I've got to 40 really regret that I was pushed away from a 'real life'.

 

I agree I also dont put any pressure on them to take over any of the businesses we have running. When I left school I had a huge pressure from my father to get an apprenticeship so I could pay my way from 15. May have been the right move as I was def not accademic. I would rather earn 12k a year and enjoy my job than earn 50k and hate it.

[Joy Yeomans]

My lad has faken a briggs and straten engine to bits to strip down and fix for a rotavatir

 

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[New Forest DEAN]

I'm amazed that you have all overlooked the main thing we all did as lads - find inventive ways to blow stuff up.

 

My Dads never quite gotten over his shed going boom-boom.

 

Not sure this good H&S though...

 

 

Paper round, chimney sweeps assistant, garden nursery work, washing door steps, selling cartoons, chopping wood...all kept me in cash as a nipper.

 

DEAN.

[White Noise]

My eldest is 16 and during the holidays is working 3 days a week on the trees , but he must be back to do his paper round at 3 ish lol . Raking , Sweeping Chief Brash Rat and he's doing well bless him . Although he hates falling asleep at 8pm lol . Good father son time and he loves the banter