I Wish My Kids Could Do This!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode of I Tell You What. I've
got a couple of kids that are at U of M,
one going into finance, the other going into chemical engineering.
I can safely say, at any agent, including the agents
that they are at right now, there's no way they'd
be able to pull something like this off. And I'm
very envious of not only this child, but of this

(00:20):
child's parents.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's this video that's going around of this seven year
old who had to step up and move a skid
steer loader for her mom because dad wasn't home. He's
the one that normally runs it, and so her mom
asked her to move it because she knows how to
run it. Her dad taught her how to do it,
and she's seven years old, and she just climbs right
in and moves.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
It easy, psy all done.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And I think it's just such a great example of
a farm kid learning how to do these things really
really early on, because I grew up with that.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Like I've got, there's five of us kids.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
In my family, and we all learn from a really
young age how to run the lawnmower, run.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
A skid steer, drive a tractor.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
My brothers especially, they handled a lot of that stuff
and so so I mean, I think I remember my
brother being like basically the same age, six or seven
years old, being able to run machinery like that, and it's.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Really really cool.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
You learn a lot of great life skills out on
a farm. But people are so worked up about it
online saying that this is super unsafe, that you shouldn't
let kids do this. But this kid even demonstrated in
the video she knew all the safety features, like the
door was really hard to.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Latch, and her mom said, well, can you just leave
it open?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
She said, no, mom, you can't do that because the
safety features prevent the the skits to hear from starting up
if the door is not latched. So, you know, kids
can really learn a lot from growing up on a
farm like that.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
What's bad? Think about it? What's a worse situation for
everybody that's given her crap? What would have made this
way worse? No offense to the woman, but she didn't
know what she was doing. If she tried to move it,
that would have been a disaster.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
It could have been you know what I mean, Yeah,
it totally shod.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
You got your seven year old daughter, there's a farm kid.
The rules they shift a little when it comes to
farm kids. Yes, it just does. I'm not trying to
pander to our farming community here, but it's the absolute truth.
My brother raised his kids on a farm, well, a
couple of brothers did, and I'll never forget my one
brother and my nephew. I hear this, What is that?

(02:22):
That's Ryan? He's on his dirt bike. Yes, he's four, Yes,
oh yeah, learned sometimes, been doing it for a year
and I like you out and he's had this little
mini bike jumping things, yeah, like jumping old cars.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
And like nobody's even watching them.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's Tuesday whatever. I mean, it's regular all day out there.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Super impressive during planting and harvesting season when you have
little kids essentially driving down the road and running machinery
and helping their parents with planting, harvesting all of that,
and I just think it's amazing.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I think it's such a great way for a kid
to grow up.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
And those kids probably pay way better attention to what
they're doing then, even adults.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Very safety conscious because they have to be.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I would it would look a little weird seeing a kid,
like a four year old kid peering over the wheel
of a combine going down the going down the road.
I mean it might, I might draw the line there.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Listen, four year old kids grow on a farm. They
grew up way different than your average four year old.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Is a whole different animal. Thanks for listening to this
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