My retirement plan....

[TCT]

Starting the new management out young so I can retire!

[Gilligan]

I posted this a while back... she's almost 4 now.  She wasn't even 2 in this vid.

Mya pretending to screen print

[TCT]

Thats what I'm talking about! I use the pull stroke also, smart girl!

[Ryan]

Funny Stuff. this is mine

[Gilligan]

She had only seen me print like 2 shirts.  She's insane... picks up stuff WAY too fast.

The other day I told the wife "Why don't you cook up some C-O-O-K-I-E-S?"  Mya fired off "Yeah, mom, make some cookies!!"  What the hell!??!  You can't spell!!

[dirkdiggler]

I got a 4 year old one of those myself!  He prints all his favorite rock band custom shirts for himself already!

[Ryan]

though it looks like she is looking for Union work 

[TCT]

Kinda scary how they pick this stuff up and WANT to do it! If they only knew!!!!!

Guess with the tables turned though, if I sat at home and watched him play with his trucks I would rather do that also!

[Frog]

I am probably not alone in noticing the phenomena of how eager to help they are at six changing drastically when they are about thirteen!

[Parker 1]

This is my oldest last Sep.

[Binkspot]

My youngest (6 yo)"helping" Hannah last summer stacking hoodies.

[tpitman]

I am probably not alone in noticing the phenomena of how eager to help they are at six changing drastically when they are about thirteen!

I was reroofing my house and told my kid that he was to get up there with me to shovel shingles as a lesson in ambition towards eventual employment a step up or two from being on the business end of a shovel. After about 15 minutes of watching him "labor" with his eyes rolling back in his head as if he'd been tethered to an oar in a galley, I told him to get off the roof, pick up all the shingles that had missed the trailer down below, then go do something else. Forcing me to watch a teenager work to avoid work is cruel and unusual punishment.
A few years later I sold a couple of palms to a nursery. The guy brought by a load of dirt to fill the holes and proffered a $20 toward my kid to do the job so he could leave with the tree. My kid balked. His mother took the twenty and told the boy to fill the holes -- for nothing -- as a reward for being lazy.
Now all that said, once he started working for others at 18, he's been their best employee wherever he went, busting his ass, working Saturdays, whatever. But, man, those early teen years were brutal . . .

[Gilligan]

I am probably not alone in noticing the phenomena of how eager to help they are at six changing drastically when they are about thirteen!

I was reroofing my house and told my kid that he was to get up there with me to shovel shingles as a lesson in ambition towards eventual employment a step up or two from being on the business end of a shovel. After about 15 minutes of watching him "labor" with his eyes rolling back in his head as if he'd been tethered to an oar in a galley, I told him to get off the roof, pick up all the shingles that had missed the trailer down below, then go do something else. Forcing me to watch a teenager work to avoid work is cruel and unusual punishment.
A few years later I sold a couple of palms to a nursery. The guy brought by a load of dirt to fill the holes and proffered a $20 toward my kid to do the job so he could leave with the tree. My kid balked. His mother took the twenty and told the boy to fill the holes -- for nothing -- as a reward for being lazy.
Now all that said, once he started working for others at 18, he's been their best employee wherever he went, busting his ass, working Saturdays, whatever. But, man, those early teen years were brutal . . .

Nice, good for your wife!

Sounds like my daughter (the 19 year old)... except that after doing a bang up job for over a year for other people we offered her a percentage of a new business that we were purchasing.  She just had to put in the extra effort in getting it going.  BARE MINIMUM and complained/told her friends that she was doing EVERYTHING.  Now we are moved and up and running and she still does BARE MINIMUM (actually not enough) and the is kind of crappy to the customers.  She told her friend the other day that she isn't cleaning up the counter because "that's not my mess".  She is the only official employee as my wife fills in for her when she is at school.

So basically we are looking for a replacement.  So sad.  Oh and her percentage of the company is going to be ZERO!  Very sad.

[Croft]

Mines the old story of I don't want to that its boring but all of his buddies think its cool and want to work for me.
 There is hope though my 2 youngest will do anything to add to there piggy banks 

[cleveprint]

well i am the 32 year old version of all your children right now! CP is a family business, my father starting it over 30 years ago. there are some awesome pictures of me as a little kid running around the shop. maybe ill see if i can scan them in. ive been folding shirts since i could reach the tops of the tables.

i had my year and half old down here the other day. he was running from me and ran right under our aux. dryer (off of course!! old Cincinnati dryer) he fits perfectly under it. my dad said he got chills as i used to do the same thing  when i was around that age. like watching the past he said. ahhh family businesses!!

and btw, i was a jerk in high school too. used to come in after school and on weekends to clean/reclaim screens. always clocked out for an hour extra. took my sweet a$$ time doing everything. complained every summer when i had to work. wish i would have taken those years to learn more about the business/printing. would have made my 20's much easier.