Beekissed
Mountain Sage
No, I don't find you argumentative at all...I think it's refreshing to meet someone with a similar background but it sounds as if your area was a much tougher existence than mine! We never had temps that low at all and here in the WV mountains it is damp, so never had a big fire around these parts. Most all of our food was in the cellar(also made of logs that first year) and would not have perished in a fire~ and after the first year the wood was stacked away from the house....but largely due to the bark bugs keeping us awake all night! 
You are right...kids weren't so lippy because there were no such thing as time outs, groundings or allowances. I raised my kids the same way(minus the tooled belt but I have used one) and they are the most polite young men around. That is the first thing everyone comments on when they meet my boys(even when they are not around me they are still polite). They were raised to say "yes, ma'am" and "no, sir" like we used to do....for some reason folks think that is a bad thing now and I've even been threatened for a right up by a boss for saying "yes, ma'am" to her!
I'd dearly love to hear more about your growing up...I think it's valuable on this forum to have people share their homesteading experiences so that it doesn't become romanticized and over-thought, as it seems to have become. It was a simple thing, a hard but worthwhile thing, and it was a big influence on the rest of my life. It would be great to hear about roughing it in the cold north and all it's challenges, Animalfarm!
You are right...kids weren't so lippy because there were no such thing as time outs, groundings or allowances. I raised my kids the same way(minus the tooled belt but I have used one) and they are the most polite young men around. That is the first thing everyone comments on when they meet my boys(even when they are not around me they are still polite). They were raised to say "yes, ma'am" and "no, sir" like we used to do....for some reason folks think that is a bad thing now and I've even been threatened for a right up by a boss for saying "yes, ma'am" to her!
I'd dearly love to hear more about your growing up...I think it's valuable on this forum to have people share their homesteading experiences so that it doesn't become romanticized and over-thought, as it seems to have become. It was a simple thing, a hard but worthwhile thing, and it was a big influence on the rest of my life. It would be great to hear about roughing it in the cold north and all it's challenges, Animalfarm!
