What was it like growing up on a farm?

Hi, I am Olivia. I'm from Washington DC and my question is, what was it like growing up on a farm?

Well, I did not grow up on a farm, but my dad did and my cousins do, and their lives are very different from me, but I can tell you what I've heard from what I can tell. Growing up on a farm, you are far more physically competent and you have a much more stricter schedule in terms of chores because often you have to help out and you have a lot of freedom going outside, within the countryside because at least my dad and my cousins, they lived on a farm with lots of space, so they could kind of go out and explore all day and their parents wouldn't really ask where they've gone. They knew they were somewhere on the land, but when it comes to being around in a city, they're not as comfortable maneuvering around that way.

My cousins had lots of horses and animals and pigs, and they were always kind of feeding them, and they were just much more physically competent. They knew if one of them was hurt, how to fix them. They knew their schedule. They were far more resilient, whereas I was a bit more squeamish with those things whenever I visited. Yeah, my dad used to have to get up at 5:00 AM to help on the farm before school. He was very, very diligent in getting all of his tasks done, but then when he moved to Big City, he was a bit more like, yeah, I think it's a very free lifestyle in some ways, and also strict in other ways, but in a completely different way than it is from growing up in the city.