Iplayfarmer
Super Member
My 8-year-old daughter who has shown a lot of responsibility asked if I'd teach her to mow the grass. Seeing the potential for free labor and extra time in the future, I agreed and together we mowed the back yard.
It took work to keep a straight face, but I succeeded. In the picture below, you can see my demonstration swaths on the the right as I showed her how to keep the long grass under the mower and make a straight line. The artistic curves on the left are her accomplishment as her line gradually got more and more crooked.
In the end the entire lawn got mowed, but she put twice as many miles on the mower as I usually do. She was a good sport about it. She knew that she has some learning to do, but she was happy to have had a shot at it.
It took work to keep a straight face, but I succeeded. In the picture below, you can see my demonstration swaths on the the right as I showed her how to keep the long grass under the mower and make a straight line. The artistic curves on the left are her accomplishment as her line gradually got more and more crooked.
In the end the entire lawn got mowed, but she put twice as many miles on the mower as I usually do. She was a good sport about it. She knew that she has some learning to do, but she was happy to have had a shot at it.