SIGH.... I have been MIA and not sewing a thing!!! all of the FUN summer stuff keeping me so busy...
QNSue, your logic makes so much sense to me.
I think people are not raising their children the way that USED to be acceptable. my BIL grew up in strawberry country CA and his father taught him to steer the tractor when he was 3 yrs old!!! BIL would drive the tractor straight to the end of the field and then to stand on the clutch until his father would come over and make the turn... then little BIL would drive it back to the other end... when he was older when the fruit was in season, they would load the flatbed truck every morning before school, and when they got home from school they would pick until it was to dark to see...
life has changed....
when I was a girl of 5, I was responsible to babysit my two younger sisters one of which was a newborn! for two hours twice a day! while my mother milked the goats.... and we were NOT to get into any mischief while she was out either!!! and you know.... we never did get into trouble...
it is SUCH a different life....