Reed's Yardworking Ethics

I am assuming that it is tough to get the average 14 year old to do any yard work. It takes a good hour of fighting with Reed to where we actually "break" him and he realizes that we are not going to relent and he won't get out of the work. Such was the day...... Dan had Reed doing the simple task of Aerating the yard with some spikes you strap on to your shoe. Reed decided to goof around on them on the hill and the spike plank flipped and went through his shoe and into his foot. He was punctured in 2 places and when Dan took off his shoe, his sock was filled with blood. Reed doesn't handle blood well, so he got really faint and then threw up all over the front lawn. He has since healed and got out of a week's worth of PE and milked us for rides to and from school for a week.