Just like everybody else, I've been feeling the pinch of a constrained economy, rising gas prices and a virtually stagnant career. (Oh, wait, that last one's just me.) I've been looking around for ways to cut back. Just this past week, in fact, I had to cancel the lawn service.

The problem is that my lawn service has been, for the past few years, my 14-year-old son. When he started volunteering to cut the grass four years ago at age 10, we thought it was cute. (And, before you write in ...

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