Would you let your 6yo mow the grass with an electric lawn mower?

[OhMowGod]

Supervised by their dad?

I say a big fat pissed off no.

His dad says Im wrapping him up in cotton wool and carried on regardless.

AIBU or is he?

Yes I think this is fine, given closed-in shoes and supervision.

well my two year old has just been up on the roof doing the tiling! so ner!

Competitive dangerousness.

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absolutely not.

No I wouldn't let a six year old do this.

Stupid, silly idea to let a six year old be in control of a large electrically powered machine. Much too young.

If supervised why not. But I myself couldn't actually see the point of this at the age of 6.

well my 9 month old baby regularly cleans the chimney using my electric toothbrush.

@ BQ and TB

Electric toothbrush Burberry???

You're spoiling that baby.

At seven I use to drive a tractor with my cousin, we needed two of us as neither of us could reach the pedals, so we did a join effort.

we had to drive the tractors as that is where we were the most use, when baling,

I certainly drove a car at that age, around the farm, we had wooden blocks on the pedals, the car had no floor.

I drove dumper trucks, diggers, tenders boats from a really young age,

mine use power tools, as did I,

It is really important to learn respect for power tools and machinery, early in life.

Never had an accident, but then I had it drummed into me from the beginning how to use tools properly.

But there is a point.
Houses/gardens etc do not maintain themselves.
The sooner you learn that everyone has to take their turn (obviously within reason) the better, be that tidying toys or making dinner with big sharp shabby knives.
Yup she does that too with me next to her. I'm working up to the cooked breakfast in bed .

My DH grew up on a farm quote and was allowed to do things which were dangerous. It was an extra pair of hands after all

From the health and Saftey Exectutive-"Children and young people up to the age of 18 are regularly killed and injured on farms, either because they are working on the farm or because they are playing there."

No, I would not do this and I have a 6yo. I would hesitate to let my 10yo do it, too.

the mower could hit something that then flies out at the child, the mower could TIP thus putting the child in danger, the list goes on.

It's a power tool

So no (and I am used to power tools AND mowers and hedge cutting and so on)

i an a bit puzzled how you would sustain an injury with a modern push lawn mower, io all honesty he would be more likely to get injured while someone else is mowing

Farming accidents are some of the most common and horrificly disfiguring

Most of us don't live on a farm. Not sure of the relevance there.

Ok aside from the risk of cutting the cable (presuming someone will be holding it)

I often hit stones etc that shoot out from the blades. The child is very small, too short to be at a safe angle for pushing a full size mower safely. It is more likely to tip, in fact it could even flip over onto the child.

My 6yo would find the vibration too difficult to manage
A foot could go under it by accident

The child could fall, most mowers have electric cut out when the handle is released but this is not instantaneous and the blades can keep spinning for a few seconds, which is long enough to cause terrible injury.

Just read the instruction book if you don't think it matters what age group these power tools are sold to.

Would you let your 6yo use an electric drill? Or a jigsaw? No? Then don't let them use a mower.

Yes. With supervision, although they are better employed weeding

Burberryqueen!! just showing off now!! 😃

My dad was brought up on a farm and we used to visit grandparents there.
Once my mum was once fanjo electrocuted when she climbed over the fence to see to the cows. She forgot to turn off the electric fence.

My nanna and grandad are very relaxed when it comes to health and safety. He used to let us drive his car around a field at 9/10 with him as passenger.

I have a 3 year old so no idea what a 6 old is capable of yet but I was driving a lawnmower with supervision at that age.

My 18 month old wing walks - you lot are lame.

(To actually answer the OP, depends if it's an actual lawn mower or a fly-mo. Lawn mower - OK if Dad is holding the cable and really watching, flymo - not under any circumstances.)

weeding ??

nooooooooooo

one of my kids helpfully "weeded" a whole bunch of healthy bedding plants and shrubs...

No, I wouldn't let mine. 12/13 at earliest.

no! at 10 perhaps, if on a flat surface. But not with one with electric blades, kids (and adults for that matter) can slip and end up with feet under the lawnmower and cut themselves. However, I must say it completely infuriates me to hear that "dads are in a better position than mums to teach blahblah" - that is utter bs!

it could even flip over onto the child
assuming he is not mowing the Himalayas,
Dad is walking alongside the child, the lawnmower hits a stone and does a perfect backflip in the air goes right over the handles and lands with the blades on top of him
Have you no grasp of physics and forces.Doesn't your brain not tell you that just couldn't happen?