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. 
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This brings back so many memories. As a kid I would cut the grass, shovel and also stacked firewood after having it passed through a window into the box below in the basement. Such a common practice back then and it actually wasn’t that long ago at the same time.
sounds like my upbringing. my kids are helping out already and I will have plenty of tasks for them as the need as we have access to the farm. i recognize the fortune I have to provide that.
Yep, I loved running the lawn mower when I was a young teen. It got me out of the house away from my parents for a bit, and I could listen to my off-brand Walkman and jam out while getting exercise and appreciating physical work.
I didn't even know about the turbo function on the mower until I accidentally pressed down on that part of the handle bar and it gunned a little 😁
I was pushing it mostly myself until then, with just a bit of help from the motor.
But yeah, now that I'm older, I know lawns are bs. I also hate the fertilizer our landlord sprinkles around every spring. It reeks for weeks until a good couple of rains wash the smell away. 😭