As a child, were you allowed to do things at an earlier age than the other kids in your neighborhood?

As a child, were you allowed to do things at an earlier age than the other kids in your neighborhood?
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answer:Oh god… I grew up on a 80 acre farm. Every summer we would do “hay”. My dad let me drive a 2 Ton truck (automatic) while the bailer drove behind it shooting bails of hay on the truck that teenage boys would stack 15 feet high on the back of the truck. I was 8 years old. We had two creeks running through our farm. My dad had a lot of lumber he would let us cut unsupervised with circular saws and table saws to build forts in the trees running along our creeks. Cut the lumber, grab some nails and a hammer, build a tree-house hanging over a creek, and be back by dinner. We had a big barn that was about 30 feet high. 75% of the barn was bails of hay stacked to the rafters. The remainder was broken up bails of hay we would have to shift to the cows every morning before school. So we would climb up into the rafters and jump into the broken up bails. Like dropping into a itchy swimming pool. Here is where we lived – Rectangle roof.
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