Wrangling Your Ducks

If you have children capable of shoveling, they should help shovel-even clean off car- it teaches work ethic, teamwork, responsibility, and if you have elderly neighbors -help them. My kids go out when we go out. They started young having to be taught and now are great shovelers. The kids now automatically shovel our elderly neighbors because my husband always said—someone is shoveling my parents and your parents when they aren’t near us and I will do the same. It’s a piece of mind for those families. The kids feel great. They get a wave, cookies and even at times money. But they do it because it is the right thing and that’s their responsibility for now with our street. The streets used to be filled with kids offering work to do for extra cash. I hear my aunts on the phone hoping people come by them to shovel each time and they worry. Of course they can call a service. The world is different but we are training, raising and building our future so if you are out cleaning your car-have your children do it with you or without you. If your child is out there- shoveling brag and show us!!! Little kids should still be out even using a brush once to start the routine and expectation. Training on how to do it right is worth it. Keep our community helpful! After they are done doing a small task or the whole driveway, let them play!! Be safe!!!