How to get kids to pay attention
This is pretty much how I was raised in a small midwestern farming community. I was in charge of the laundry by the time I was 6, and the lawn when I was 8 or 9, and summers were pretty much filled with activities that my friends and I could organize.<p>Moving to the burbs where play was organized sports and kids had everything done for them was a really big shock.<p>It was hard to believe how inept at life most of my peers were when I went off to University.  They only things they knew were what was on tv or from school.