Kids Today Need What We Had When We Were Young

Our kids need stay-at-home Moms; and local Grandparents, and Dads who read to them from the Bible every morning at breakfast, after he has made the morning fire, and lit the kerosene lanterns. Everyone has a job to do, and the home runs like a well-oiled machine, in a pre-electrified world........ like I did.
There was nothing wrong with that.One of my jobs was to hike over to Grandma's on an adjacent quarter and separate the cream from the milk,that Grandma had just brought in from the milk-house, then bring it back to our cabin, so we could all have breakfast.I had lots of jobs before I ever started school. Being part of the team fostered self-worth. I hauled water, helped with the chores, and held chicken-heads for Mom as she whacked them off with a hatchet.
There was no TV, no internet, no friggen phone, no electricity, and no flush-toilets. We polished out teeth with baking soda and rinsed with salty water. Another job I had was working the Full-Manual wash-machine. And washing dishes. And a little later, as I was the eldest, I learned to cook and take care of the younger ones.
Where was Mom you might ask. Why, out with Dad and Grandpa, working the mixed farm, don't you know. My Dad was smart; he married a farmgirl,one of three hard working solidly built God-Fearing help-meets. At 17, she had already been working the farm with her Dad and her two older sisters, and little baby-brother 10 years her junior. Grandpa,soon-to-be-in-law, was none to keen on seeing his girls, being married off, and sold the farm shortly afterwards, having lost all his helpers. He too died at 64, a worn-out giant of a man.
My Dad's brother bought our farm when Grandpa got worn out, and we moved to the BigCity. I was seven friggin years old.Grandpa died 3 years later at age 64,having sired 15 kids. He worked his whole life just to bring them all to maturity. Sadly 2 of them never made it to adulthood. IIRC he died before the last son got married. Hyup; Uncle Corny was only 10 years my senior. I'm guessing he was 20 or so when Grandpa keeled over.
But the chores didn't stop in the city. No, they were increased, cuz now Mom had to take up the slack cuz we no longer had food on the table, provided for us by the farm animals, nor the annual wheat harvest, nor the HUGE garden that Grandma tended and I had used to hoe, nor the orchard.
That's what kids today need; to back up the hands of time,and learn to be a part of Family and community.
Sadly, that ain't likely to ever happen. We are living in the Great Falling Away.Electricity was touted as the life-saver. In truth, in just 100years,we have let it destroy our family, our community, and soon,our civilization.
Yeah I know how all that sounds, but that's how it was. I think I was the last of that generation, and the first of the next. I fought it best as I could but when the last of my three started school, my dear wife took a part-time job, and eventually a full-time one, as the kids needed ever more support; and that has never quite stopped. In 30 days or so I will be 65, now officially older than both my grandfathers when their bodies failed;ain't electricity grand.
That's what our kids need, a trip back in time, into a world without electricity.
OK,OK, it ain't all electricity's fault. And electricity brought us out of the dark-ages,lol. But you get the point. The decline if the Family started at about the same time as the rise of electricity, and I am 100% convinced that it played a major role in that.