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A Mowing Problem

By Chris Walker

August 14, 2008

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LAST WEEKEND I was passing out chores to the kids. I gave Hattie, our middle child, the special job of mowing the lawn. She informed me that she didn’t like mowing and she wasn’t going to do it. She then let me know that if I made her mow, she would drive the tractor into the pond.

I am not sure what startled me the most: her unwillingness to help, her threats of violence to the tractor, or that she is only 5 years old and has never mowed the lawn before.

When school starts, I hope lawn-mowing appreciation is part of the kindergarten curriculum.

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