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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My elementary-aged kids shoveled ours and elderly neighbors' walks and driveways yesterday for free. It wasn't perfect, but...

I was disappointed that most of the older neighbors had to depend on adults to help them out. The only teenagers I've seen have been in cars, driving out of the neighborhood. THAT I find disappointing.[/quote]

Don't assume that those teens know those older neighbors and/or have relationships with them.

Sorry, but that's just how it is. It's usually the adults who help one another out for free-whether they're helping out the elderly, single woman/mother, woman whose husband is away...They're being neighborly, and I really wouldn't expect teens to do that.

Now if you're going to raise your children to look out for the elderly like that as teens, GOOD ON YOU! That's great. But most teenagers don't. They leave that stuff to the adults. (Remember the stories of the creepy old men in the neighborhood? You can never be too careful with your children. Most parents don't allow them to get too close to other adults.)[/quote]

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