I grew up on a farm in Southwestern Pa. We all had to work doing chores like helping milk the cows...Throwing feed down from the hay mile....We had to feed chickens and gather eggs, and slop the hogs....We had to help in the hay fields and help hoe the garden.....We worked hard but played after working in the hay on the upper barn floor...We use to go swimming in the creek below our house after we finished the haying and field work in the summer.....We didn't have a lot of toys but we were very creative with the things that were lying around....There were 6 of us so we always had a playmate....