My boys spend most of their day outside in the field doing various farm chores and absolutely love it. I have to drag them in for dinner most days. My 4 year old has his own hand saw and can pretty accurately measure and cut boards for me while practicing better safety protocols than I’ve seen on most job sites, he learned addition and subtraction by counting how many eggs we get a day which he made one of his daily chores, I had to cut the arms down on a post hole digger and add new handles because we were planting a bunch of trees a few weeks ago and he wanted to be the one to dig all the holes. My 2 year old is always right behind him usually covered in dirt having a ball. I think it’s fine if my 4 year old asks to play a bubble pop game every couple weeks or my 2 year old pretends to be on the phone with his grandma a couple times a week. They won’t even stay inside long enough to watch a whole movie before getting bored.
My boys spend most of their day outside in the field doing various farm chores and absolutely love it. I have to drag them in for dinner most days. My 4 year old has his own hand saw and can pretty accurately measure and cut boards for me while practicing better safety protocols than I’ve seen on most job sites, he learned addition and subtraction by counting how many eggs we get a day which he made one of his daily chores, I had to cut the arms down on a post hole digger and add new handles because we were planting a bunch of trees a few weeks ago and he wanted to be the one to dig all the holes. My 2 year old is always right behind him usually covered in dirt having a ball. I think it’s fine if my 4 year old asks to play a bubble pop game every couple weeks or my 2 year old pretends to be on the phone with his grandma a couple times a week. They won’t even stay inside long enough to watch a whole movie before getting bored.