If you’re working 40-60 hours a week and you have kids and/or a stay at home wife, you should never have to touch a mower other than to do oil and air filter services and touching up the blades. My Dad usually had another 20 hours of work on bigger projects to cram into his weekend on top of getting us to sports and out into the bush. Despite grumbling through it sometimes, three hours of lawn cutting with a push mower made a great first chore for teaching us how to work and earn a bit of allowance. In the winter it’d be replaced by shovelling and blowing snow and hauling firewood and chucking it down a window well chute and stacking it in the basement wood room. In the spring it would be me and my sister running a tractor up and down the fields picking rocks prior to planting. Without the benefit of growing up on a farm, lawn mowing is for today’s suburb dwelling kids one of the best and first excuses to teach them to be useful.