Children's knives

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Children's knives

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I know, what a heading! But bear with me, I'm reccing a Montessori article https://www.howwemontessori.com/how-we- ... nives.html

I love the idea of letting a young child use a crinkle cut chipper, or a butter knife - I have a high quality butter knife made of wood, which would be fine for spreading jam, or peanut butter. Completely blunt in terms of being a "knife", but definitely a knife shape, and very sturdy.
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I didn’t know such things existed! That is excellent. Children should learn how to use a knife,after all ,knives are the most ancient tool known to us.We now have a cultural fear of knives,and it shouldn’t be so.
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I never knew that anyone made cooking knives for kids.
I thought you were talking about something like the kid-safe Opinels
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Knives have been demonised by the press etc for so long that carrying almost any kind of bladed tool instantly makes you a bad person.
The twin teenagers in my dance team were horrified when they first found out that I had a pocket knife and that I carried one everyday (even when going to practices or to the pub). The phrase "But, you're a nice person..... Why would you do that?" was used.
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It's interesting, isn't it! The history is important too - all those flint knives, made either from one piece or lots of tiny pieces set into antler or some such, that they find at archaeological digs. And incidentally, ForgeCorvus, Opinels are mentioned in the article. The research that's gone into it is amazing.
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Yep, I saw the Opinel. I knew they made 'grown-up' kitchen knives, but I didn't know they did a kids version.

I've been known to refer to knives as "Tool #1"
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Mora do a good "safety" knife in a few forms one carries the scout logo on the scabbard


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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:24 pm Mora do a good "safety" knife in a few forms one carries the scout logo on the scabbard


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Please be aware of the UK Knife laws regarding fixed blade length. It doesn't matter the age of the carrier.

I know cub scout troops who have all their Moras locked in an Ammo box when not in use. Talk about not trusting your members. :roll:
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ForgeCorvus wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:24 pm Knives have been demonised by the press etc for so long that carrying almost any kind of bladed tool instantly makes you a bad person.
The twin teenagers in my dance team were horrified when they first found out that I had a pocket knife and that I carried one everyday (even when going to practices or to the pub). The phrase "But, you're a nice person..... Why would you do that?" was used.
I've had some odd responses to having a pocket knife. I was using my *very small and pretty much blunt* crappy penknife to open some boxes at work once and my manager's eyes came out on stalks. She didn't stop me or anything, but mumbled something about hoping security wasn't planning on doing a building check. The students who we had in to help with the project steered well clear of me :lol:

And then you have my brother, a police sergeant, asking his 'prepper sister' if he could borrow her (perfectly legal) swiss army knife so he can break into all the plastic cr@p they wrap kids toys in nowadays. His daughters are being brought up with the knowledge that all tools, used properly, are safe.
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I do find myself despairing of the newest generation, not that it's their fault but ours for accepting the cotton wool mentality. When one of my sons was 7 or 8 he announced that he was taking over the chicken incubator and brooder, which he did with good effect. When he was 11 he said this is silly, I should do it all and asked to be taught to kill, pluck and gut the cockerels which we ate. When he was 12 he asked for a knife of his own but by this time it was getting dodgy to have a knife and I said not yet. Well I came home from shopping to find he had made one from scrap metal and a bit of deer antler, it was blooming good! I was really proud of him, he still has it and it is still useful! Reckon if this all happened today we'd end up being refered to social services!