@J-Cake you're right about it being a non-answer, at least. I've flagged it into the review queues for now.

Okay amazing. What happens when they determine it to be a non-answer? does it just get removed?

Yep!

Whats up el hefe?

@JeffSchaller I deleted it (cc @J-Cake). It wasn't providing an answer.

@jesse_b heya jesse_b! Keepin' on keepin' on. Just helped my son mow the lawn; may be one of his summer chores (and one off my list!)

@JeffSchaller Nice how old is he? I recently got a new zero turn mower and my boys love going for rides on it but my oldest is only 5 so at least a couple years away from cutting the grass

He has a john deere powerwheel he drives around after me on while I'm mowing though

@jesse_b I have a really old riding mower, so he didn't get to start small with a push mower; had to wait until his legs could reach the brake on rider, so we started last year when he was 12, showing him the controls.

@JeffSchaller How long do you think before the fun wears off and it becomes a chore?

Honestly I still enjoy mowing my lawn since I got that zero turn. It used to take me upwards of 6 hours and now it takes less than 2

@jesse_b well, I'd love for it to be a chore, but I think we're working our way towards it being a paid service. He's getting motivated by money lately, so this is a good opportunity to show him what earning money looks like, not just spending money :)

@JeffSchaller Yeah I want to introduce allowance to my kids as like a pay per task thing but neither of them really care for money yet other than coins are shiny

@jesse_b yeah, it's tricky; we started with a short list of "household contributions" (emptying the dishwasher, emptying the trashes, vacuuming, etc) that each kid would be responsible for; we personally weren't fans of the "free" allowance idea, so now we're trying to come up with paid chores

I think it could help to have each task be paid individually so it's not just "do all your chores and you get $n". I could make up a list like dishes are $3, taking out the trash is $2, etc

of course with inflation it's probably going to cost me like $20 to get some dishes done

... and whether you can 100% delegate the chore (maybe that's just me); I want to come up with a whole checklist of things, just for mowing (fuel? oil? tires aired up? etc)

speaking of family, time for a video call; enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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