What started out as a punishment by Barbara Wilson inspired her son Travis to mow not just her neighbors’ lawns, but yards across the Louisville, Kentucky area. 

For free.

Travis got his brothers and a cousin involved, and now Wilson says she and her husband are taking the kids to Disney. They’ve raised more than $72,000 via GoFundMe for their trip, and Wilson is going to make the trip an annual one “to show, not only our kids, but the kids in our community that there is a world out here so much bigger than ‘our hood!’”

The boys’ Facebook page, entitled “It Takes A Village, Together We Stand Strong,” has more videos of the kids working, maintaining their equipment, etc.

Did I mention that all four boys are just 14 and 15 years old? 

As a premature old man – I’m 30, but I listen to Neil Diamond and I haven’t used PokemonGo – I’ve begun to enjoy the timeless practice of bashing the next generation as worse than mine.

These kids are putting that idea, and me, to shame. And in a summer that has been overwhelmingly negative thanks to terrorist attacks, shootings by and of police, and depressing politics, it’s no wonder that 18 million people have watched four teenage boys mow lawns. Via ABC13: