When would you let your child mow the lawn? CP

Re: When would you let your child mow the lawn? CP

• Smgrochowski member

  August 2012

  I voted 12, but a lot depends on the kid. I mowed our lawn when I was 10. Looking back, I'm surprised at my parents letting me. We had a small, but steep hill that sloped down right into the road. I'm pretty sure I remember doing it when no one was home, too.

  

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• ebd08 member

  August 2012

  I might be weird, but I really enjoyed mowing the lawn as a kid!  10 might be a bit young, though.  I'd want to make sure that we went over safety precautions with using something like that first.

  Also, a PSA - make sure you wear some sort of eye protection when you mow the lawn.  A friend of mine's mower shot a rock into her eye and did some serious damage!

  
  

  

  

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• motang member

  August 2012

  I remember I couldn't wait to turn 12 so I could mow the grass. We had a riding mower so that was the big attraction for me because I so badly wanted to drive. I think 12 is a reasonable age to allow kids to mow... 10 is a little young.

  

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• guccikat member

  August 2012

  I said 15.. But would not let DD mow the lawn at all.. In my opinion mowing the lawn should be left for the boys.. So if I had a DS then he can do it at 15.. Otherwise I would hire someone to mow it. I think DH would rather hire someone than do it himself too.

  

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• CountingUp

  August 2012

  11. But it would depend on the kid.

  

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• uncharch7

  August 2012

  totally depends on the child, but supervised i'm fine with under 9. 

  and the mowing should be left to the boys gets a big eye roll out of me. girls are perfectly capable of mowing and this type of mentality does nothing but reinforce gender stereotypes in a household. both myself and my brother mowed at a young age. 

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• Moozilla11 member

  August 2012

  Depends on the kid but I would not until teenage years. I remember in elementary school a kid slipped while mowing the lawn and lost both of his legs because the mower ran them over. It was terrible.

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• guccikat member

  August 2012

  uncharch7:

  totally depends on the child, but supervised i'm fine with under 9.nbsp;and the mowing should be left to the boys gets a big eye roll out of me. girls are perfectly capable of mowing and this type of mentality does nothing but reinforce gender stereotypes in a household. both myself and my brother mowed at a young age.nbsp;

  
  
  Of course girls are capable to mowing the lawn, I just rather the boys do stuff like that. Everyone is capable of mowing a lawn.
  You might see it as stereotyping, I just see it as each persons role in the family.. Some see this as negative..I just see it as teamwork we all have an understanding of how tasks are divided up.
  Honestly, I don't want to get stuck having to mow the lawn, do all the heavy lifting and fix things around the house... Don't get me wrong.. I can do all this stuff but I rather leave that to DH :

  

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• asyph107 member

  August 2012

  guccikat:

  I said 15.. But would not let DD mow the lawn at all.. In my opinion mowing the lawn should be left for the boys.. So if I had a DS then he can do it at 15.. Otherwise I would hire someone to mow it. I think DH would rather hire someone than do it himself too.

  This is what I though until I mowed the lawn for the first Time ever this year. I loved it and use the mower when DH doesn't have time now. It's great exercise and frankly it's like pushing a loud vacuum. No flames from me though gender roles in my family growing up we're pretty firm so I can understand.

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