Earlier this year Amanda Owen spoke to Adrian Chiles about her life on the farm with her nine children the lessons some experiences teach them
Our Yorkshire Farm’s Amanda Owen spoke about one of the harsh realities of living on a farm and the lessons it can teach young people.
Amanda, 51, was speaking to Adrian Chiles on the BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live podcast when she touched on how her farm has shaped her children.
Amanda shares nine children with her ex-husband – Reuben, 22, Raven, 24, Miles, 18, Edith, 15, Violet, 15, Sid, 14, Annas, 12, Clemmie, 10 and Nancy, nine.
Speaking to Adrian about the lessons the farm can, and has, taught her children, she said: “One is that you don’t always win, you do not always win. If you fear failing then that is going to seriously hamper you.”
Continuing her explanation, Amanda used the example of a dying animal to demonstrate how being on a farm teaches her children to keep moving forward despite failure.
She said: “You will have an animal that is sick, and you will do everything, everything within your power to try and heal it to try and get that animal back on the right track.
“The number of times we have propped ailing sheep up on bales and tried to get standing and dose them with treacle, literally showered them with tlc.
“One of the children has come running back in and said ‘The sheep! It’s better! It’s drinking water’. And a little part of my heart sinks because usually that is exactly what they do just before they expire.”
Amanda concluded: “And now you’ve got to carry on, that’s what you have to do. It’s a life lesson in itself.”
This is not the first time Amanda has spoken about her children, as she has also discussed what it is like parenting them now they are growing into teenagers and adults.
Appearing on the Good Housekeeping UK podcast last year, she expressed that she was now experiencing her favourite stage of parenting in terms of communicating with her children.
She explained: “I love it. This is the best of parenthood. I was warned of this because I always remember a lady coming to the door and saying, ‘You’ll pay the price one of these days. When they’re teenagers your life will be hell’.
“Sorry, I think this will be the best stage. I was never very mumsy which sounds silly when you’ve got nine children. I never really was. I would have in the car seat and I would put them down somewhere, forget where I’d put them, things like that.
“I mean it was always in a field. But now they’re really getting their characters coming through and I feel like, if I was looking at it in a selfish way, they keep me feeling relevant. They keep me, sort of, with it.”
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