EXCELLENT POST! I'd give it more than 100% if I could. p.s. When I was a teacher, I discovered that students who grew up in homes (and farms and ranches) like the one you've created were unquestionably, clearly happier, harder working, better adjusted, more capable, more helpful and cooperative, better grades, and other positives. It was the way most people grew up just two or three generations ago. Now, most kids -- no fault of their own -- grow up with little access to adults, no household chores, trying to figure out how to raise themselves and their siblings. Severe sleep deprivation (getting up at 4 or 5 am to catch a bus that takes them to a school far from their own neighborhood) and malnutrition (diet of what's sold in vending machines and public-school cafeterias) is also a big problem. Your post is an illustration of a solution that gets to the core of a lot of problems. Thanks for this!