My old man had me and my brother mowing a large lawn area using a old push mower in 1968, we did that taking turns for on whole summer, the next summer we had a pool, but a front lawn to mow
You are never too old to teach. At the end of my construction management career I was in charge of a fifty million dollar project for the military. We were down to tiny punch-list items and all of my crew but one laborer were gone. We had a large lobby and entry area with a terrazzo floor and I had this young 18 year old laborer get a mop bucket, squeeze wringer and a big mop from the janitor’s closet as the lobby was going to be photographed the next day and it was late.
I watched this kid scrub forward and back with a mop making a bigger mess on the floor than what was there. A civilian facility manager (retired military E-8) in charge of the monster building was standing there with me. I patiently took the mop away from the kid and going back to what I had been taught 53 years earlier showed him how to wet and then dry mop a floor as to not to leave streaks.
This military manager could not get over how I had shown the kid, mopped a fourth of the floor myself and given him a detailed skill set. He laughingly talked about how this Project Executive running his building knew everything in tiny detail down to properly mopping the floors.
It is amazing how often people just need some patient detailed instruction and how many of our peers can’t figure out how to provide it.
My 35 year old (single) niece moved down close to me with her four kids and as she was moving in I decided to do the yard. So I got out the push mower out and I pushed the yard (which was sizable) and I finished and she was amazed at how straight the lines were and how perfect the mow job was and how did I do that. I looked at her kind of oddly and I said “I’ve been mowing yards 10 years old honey.” She had never heard of such a thing.