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Sure.  I was babysitting three kids, including an infant, by 11.  Times have changed and our kids are growing up in very different places.  My inlaws live in idaho and their kids grew up mowing lawns and shoveling snow.  Where I live, people hire bonded companies to do work like that at their houses.  It is a different world and my kids can do things that didn't exist when I was a kid (like set up personal computers, tablets, cell phones for their grandparents), they also can't do the things I did.

My fil can't order things online - it stresses him out.  My 11 yr old can do that.  [/quote]
But you can teach your 11 yr old to do both.  I agree that our kids are growing up in a different time period/culture, but there are certain things that are timeless, like being able to buy something at age 11 on your own.  Oh, and my kids in the DC  area shovel snow (when there is snow), and the older one (14) has been shoveling snow for neighbors and getting paid for it. 14 yr old also babysits and does other stuff to earn money.  Certain skill sets should be timeless.  This kid has money in the savings account, and often has more cash in the wallet than I do. [/quote]

No one is saying not to teach your 11 yr old to do stuff. In fact, people have posted great examples of scaffolding the kids who are anxious  and kids who aren't anxious in these skills.  It just is a matter of where you live as to what that looks like - the opportunities that were available in the past or in other areas are not available to many people now.  I live in a college town and no one is hiring teens to babysit.  There are lawn people who have dedicated companies - people aren't hiring tweens to do anything.  The only thing tweens do here is the occasional lemonade stand or selling girl scout cookies. [/quote]

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