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My children all had household jobs and as soon as they could see over the steering wheel of a tractor had jobs on the farm. All three of them worked all the time they attended College. When they started having children, I left it up to them how they would teach their children about work and responsibilities.

Now that I am a grandfather, I could "spoil" the GKs a little and it backfired once on me. I have many Hickory trees in the yard and around the house and some years you can not walk for them rolling under your feet. One of the middle grand sons was 6 or 7 and I offered him $1 per 5 gallon bucket filled with hickory nuts and delivered to the burn pile behind the barn in the red wagon. He had collected 4 buckets on the first day and the second, he had totaled 6 and then I discovered his secret. He would go up behind the barn and fill a bucket almost full, pull it to the yard and finish filling. Much easier to pick up from the pile. I explained that it was dishonest, and took his pay away. But when he was out of sight, I had to grin as it was in a way good thinking. Now when I have him stacking brush on a burn pile, I get a better than fair return on my paid wages--he is now 15 and stacking with a tractor.