Involving the family in caring for your lawn can be a great activity for the whole family. Getting your kids involved in keeping your lawn clean and healthy can be a good way to teach them responsibility. Furthermore, doing with your kids is a good way to build a healthy and fun relationship with your children. Most kids enjoy helping their parents with outdoor work especially if it can be construed as "fun" and not "work". Make a game of it and the kids will enjoy the activity.

Getting the whole family involved in caring for your lawn can be a little tricky especially with schedules. If you need and want the family to help let them know exactly what needs to be done, basically how you want it done (demonstrate) and not take things too seriously especially if you're dealing with younger children.

Give each child a specific responsibility and when the work is done, have a fun event planned as a "thank you". Let's be honest. To many people, is a religion and an ongoing competition with neighbors. If you're that serious you might want to consider hiring a service to come in and do the work because kids are kids and they are not going to take that seriously. If this is going to be a problem, don't put the kids in the middle.

When doing with your children, give each child a task to perform. For instance, when it is time to plant the grass, you can ask your children to help you pick up the seeds from the garden store. If your children are old enough to help you sow the grass seeds, it would be a good idea for you to ask for their help in this task. Not only will it be more fun to have your kids help you, it will also help you accomplish the task faster.

Obviously, you don't want your children around the fertilizer that you will be using or using equipment that can be dangerous like lawn mowers. If you have a riding lawn mower, you might consider some type of safety device that would prevent "back-overs" of small children or pets.

It might require some creativity on your part to get the family involved in caring for the lawn, but in the long run it might turn out to be a fun afternoon for everyone.

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