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Seen and heard the very same thing. Kids nowadays are much precious dontyaknow?
How dare you imply they can simply deliver papers like in ye olden days.
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I agree with 1198 it seems like a somewhat misguided attempt at installing a decent work ethic. But in fact it might backfire, because Kiddikins would always expect Daddy to get him out of doing shit at work, and elsewhere.
This wave of parental hysteria about their children being unable to go anywhere is utterly ridiculous. There's not THAT many serial killers/suicide bombers/paedos out there after children; there simply aren't enough to go around. Its not really a show of strength or compassion by the parents, in a way it just means that the parents themselves haven't grown up because they are not exposing THEMSELVES to normal adult emotions of fear or worry.
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Did he eat a handful of freezing cold gravel before he left the house, do you think?
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Maybe he was making sure he did the round, and not just dump the papers in the first lobby of a block of flats. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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When I was a kid, I had a few part-time jobs.
My dad had a local shop, we lived in a flat above the shop in a row of shops, the sort of little mini-shopping areas that are largely gone now, three green grocers, three butchers, a baker, two newsagents, four banks, two garages, a hardware store, couple of chemists etc
Anyway, by the time I was about 14, I was up at 05:45 to get to the papershop down the road for 06:00 to mark up all the paper rounds before doing my own. Straight after school do an evening round for same shop, Had 4 free paper rounds, 2 for one that came out on a Tuesday and 2 for one that came out on a Thursday, also did holiday cover sometimes. Walked someones dog straight after my evening paper round, and worked in my dad's shop some evenings, and most weekends for up to 24 hrs a week.
I thought, and my dad thought, stuff the child labour laws.
By 1988 as I approached my 16th birthday, I was earning over £150 a week. Oh yea, by the time I was 15, he'd just leave me on my own to run the shop, sometimes for the entire weekend.
When I left school, and my dad sold his shop, and I stopped doing paperround I joined the civil service, but by income took a nose dive. So, I got a job in a convinience store weekends and evenings to top it back up again. No one really knew where I should be in the civil service, or what I was doing, and I might have abused the flexi time, |
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Perhaps the dad thought his son would be the type to dump them all, or had found out he was, and was making sure he did the job properly and learned some responsibility. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Ahhh paper rounds. I could be that dad, well sort of.
My first son, got his paper round 4 years back when he was 12, first we heard of it, was the newsagent phoning us. (Good for my lad).
We did need to help him at first, perhaps the first couple of weeks, but then he was okay. Now there was always the odd panic, where he overslept and we needed to do it in the car and he also had an operation on his shoulder, so we needed to help for a bit.
Number one lad is now 16 and now has a checkout job, so the paper round has gone to number 2 lad. Who doesn't have the same work ethic.
We are still helping him after 4 months, sometimes in car, more often on foot. I can't stress enough how important work ethic is. Even local copper helps his daughter on paper round.
Number one lad ended up doing gardening jobs for his customers and his direct experience of the job, helped with his interviews for his supermarket job. He explained how he had done gardening and when he messed up, he forked out of his own money for a paper.
He also managed to fund a gaming PC out of the round. He earned about £12 a week, but would often cover another round and got a shxt load of tips at Christmas.
The funniest thing though was my lad went 16 at the very end of August and all his mates worked through the summer, he was still on his paper round. Plus he had his operation as a 15 year old and there where pictures of monkeys in the kiddies ward where he was. (he's 6 foot tall). ____________________ I've a twin and a 4. |
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AldridgePrior wrote: | hellkat wrote: | Did he eat a handful of freezing cold gravel before he left the house, do you think?
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My sons 11, we like in a quiet village in the Highlands, I've taken him round a couple of times in the van when the weather has been blowing 60mph as he's came off his bike a few times. I would not be bothering following him, if he's worried that much he should not be doing it. ____________________ Current: 2019 Yamaha T7 -> 2015 KTM Superduke R | 2000 Yamaha R1 Past -> 2009 KTM 990 SM -> 2005 kawasaki ZX10r -> 2000 Honda CBR 600 FY -> 2002 Honda XLV 125 Varadero
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My 15 yr old lad had work experience this summer, local 'ish sports centre 6 miles away.
He has a very expensive mountain bike, Christmas present last year, which I was not keen on him taking and leaving outside so said he could use mine, he spent Saturday afternoon cleaning and servicing ready for Monday morning.
He road in via the cycle paths to his 'job' Monday morning and at half past three I tracked him to the local bike park where he met some friends, or so I thought, but no he had arranged for mum to pick him up and bring him home with the bike in the boot.
The rest of the week his granddad picked him up at 8:30 and took him in and picked him up again at 3:30 to bring him home.........
Then the in-laws have the cheek to tell me I'm not bringing my kids up properly cause they're lazy
I tried to get the missus to make him cycle but all I ever get is "you don't cycle to work so why should he?" I work 22 miles away and am 53 yrs old and need to be there for 8am!! ____________________ Current Bikes: VFR 800Fi 1998 & CB250N Superdream 1981 |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 133 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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