Neighbour allowing boy to use lawn mower

[OneLemonOrca]

My male neighbour lives across the road from a relative, the relative has a son who’s 6 or 7 and the son visits. The neighbour is allowing the son to mow his grass with the lawn mower. He is standing in the garden with him but I still think it’s too dangerous?

Am I not allowed to read another person's post and for that post to stimulate an idea which I then express?

Anyway you obviously didn't understand my original post because what you have written is completely irrelevant and neither supports nor detracts from my point.

I worked summers on my cousins farm and was driving jcb diggers, backhoes and a 14 tonne excavator aged 8.

which is why farms are such dangerous places for children - they are among the most dangerous workplaces anyway and one of the few workplaces where children live and roam. But I suspect you are exaggerating - probably sat on a tractor aged 8 and thought you were doing the driving. If it is true, your cousin must have been in a fairly shite place if he had to rely on an 8 year old to use a 14 tonne excavator to carry out essential farm work. Hope things are better for them now.

I wouldn't have a problem with the situation OP described.

I used to mow the lawn at this age with my Dad supervising. Children should be doing a wide range of stuff. Being sedentary and overweight is far more dangerous for children than most of the ‘risky’ things mentioned on here.

In my neighbourhood here in lreland two children have has accidents with lawnmowers. Both were with adults at the time. One had damage to his leg and the other little fella to his toes. I hate kids being too near machines. We see farm accidents regularly. I just don't know what you can do though seeing its not your child. But l would be concerned especially with an older person supervising as unfortunately they are not always as alert to danger as they may have been at a younger age. Many farm accidents happen with grandpa's, l'm afraid.

I remember being one of 4 boys (7-12 yo) wrestling and fighting over the steering wheel of a moving (spare) tractor while our fathers were working at the other end of a field. And it was me, being the smallest who got pushed out of the door and ended up hanging out of the cab face to face with the rear tire.
Could have been nasty.

Because they should be all tucked up in bed glued to their devices, well not a real suggestion but these days I am surprised they are allowed to leave the front door