I asked my son (14y) if he wanted to stay home from school today to help me...
I asked my son (14y) if he wanted to stay home from school today to help me...
He said yes.
So today he mixed seventeen 30 Kg bags of concrete mix two at a time in a wheelbarrow with a mortar hoe by himself.
We set this foundation slab for a wheelchair lift I bought used and am working on installing for my father.
I think the teachers at his Catholic high school will be ok with this absence.
please excuse MapleEngineer Jr's absence yesterday. He had come down with a concrete illness but is much better now, although his arms and shoulders may be sore for a few days
It's good to teach the kids manual labor. We do the same thing, although I don't think that we have had truancy as a result... Yet anyway.
He's a very good student and his teachers like him. I made sure that he wasn't missing anything important. I think it's a good thing to get some experience with difficult jobs with your father.
I'm sure he's an excellent student, I wasn't calling you a bad parent or something. I also didn't say that I haven't taken a kid home early for other, less serious, reasons.
Mixing concrete is an important skill, even more important is it to understand the value of both hard labor and lending a hand when needed. I bet mixing that much concrete provided a bit of extra confidence as well.