Feel like a bad Mom!

[Marilyn]

Janet, I just thought of something else. In a way, your son is not just learning the necessity of hard work and doing what is required to earn your pay, he is helping your local farmer employ US citizens and not have to find illegal immigrants to get the job done. The job your son is doing is exactly the type job that they say Americans no longer are willing to do. I think it is extremely admirable that your son and the other young men in your area are willing to do this type of work. Our parents generation was willing to do it. I remember my father telling of picking cotton to earn money to buy gas to get back and forth to college. As a mom, I think you are doing the right thing to encourage him to work hard. I wish I'd pushed my daughters more when they were your son's age. They could have been helping around the house more, but I hated hearing them complain when I got after them.