For those of you who have kids...............

[GingivitisKahn]

I'm w/ Idaho Guy - teach your kids how to behave and what not to touch and you are light years ahead. You can rely on your safe and so forth and that will work but what about when your kids are a bit bigger and over at a friend's house where there is no safe?

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Beckerhead #42

 

[Bladite]

It was my honest opinion pal. I would give you another one too if I didn't think it would get me sent to band camp.

allison hannigan goes to band camp

one time, there were chains and ponies!!!

 

[Murphnuge]

Uh, SpecOps guys do it all the time, or so I'm told.

 

[zrfunited]

It was my honest opinion pal. I would give you another one too if I didn't think it would get me sent to band camp.

Then I stand with my previous statement . In the Upper left hand corner is my screen name, click it and choose the option to email me if you would like to get it off your chest

 

[Idaho Guy]

Then I stand with my previous statement . In the Upper left hand corner is my screen name, click it and choose the option to email me if you would like to get it off your chest

From super safe nanny guy to internet tough guy LMAO

 

[BRL]

Edit: nevermind. This dickish back-and-forth has gotten my back up and I need to just stay out of a sadly degenerated thread.

 

[Murphnuge]

So, we ask everyone what they do with dangerous tools/weapons in their own homes, with their own kids and then cry foul when we receive an answer? People Dr. Phil isn't coming to your house to reprimand you or jr. for the way you raise your kids. "You swing from your tree and I'll swing from mine. You have your lemons and I'll have my limes It's funny we all act like monkeys sometime."-Big & Rich.

 

[BushOgre]

So, we ask everyone what they do with dangerous tools/weapons in their own homes, with their own kids and then cry foul when we receive an answer? People Dr. Phil isn't coming to your house to reprimand you or jr. for the way you raise your kids. "You swing from your tree and I'll swing from mine. You have your lemons and I'll have my limes It's funny we all act like monkeys sometime."-Big & Rich.

Big and Rich should be put in a safe for posterity........so they can die of oxygen loss and teach kids what happens to annoying fake cowboys. smiley face for the blind as bladite would say. I think safes should be put in safes. see my happy cuteness.

 

[Flexxx]

I might get my daughter a pink izula, she has been bugging for one for a while now.

The only reason she wants one is because I have so many knives, its pretty cool seeing her following my style

 

[BushOgre]

I might get my daughter a pink izula, she has been bugging for one for a while now.

The only reason she wants one is because I have so many knives, its pretty cool seeing her following my style

Hopefully she won't follow the butt sheath path.

 

[zrfunited]

For those I have pissed off; I apologize. It wasn't my intention to derail this thread. However, I see now that this is what has happened.
For the record; I am not advocating that everyone go get a safe. My purchase of a safe was dictated by the fact that I had firearms, ammunition, and bladed tools spread out in my house on shelves and in closets. I really needed a dedicated place to put things. Now I have one.
I think that the "safe" is what the sticking point with most people is. Hey, if you are fine with having your gear on shelves or anywhere else then thats cool with me. In none of my posts did I say that folks who don't lock their knives up are bad. The only thing I did was point out, in an admittedly snide way, that idaho's 2nd post was an over generalization of
Of a person motivations for locking their gear up in a safe. That's it. I have attempted to point out that I don't advocate the complete sterilization of an environment, or the failure to teach kids to keep their grubby little paws of of other people's stuff. Somehow though I have failed to communicate these things effectively.
Idaho, the previous post wasn't me going from nanny to tough guy. The intention was that if you want to say something then say it, but take it out of this forum so that we can argue without disrupting this thread.

 

[GingivitisKahn]

Uh, SpecOps guys do it all the time, or so I'm told.

Yeah but they use incendiary grenades and whatnot.

I think that the "safe" is what the sticking point with most people is.

No - for me, I think the sticking point was this over the top response:

Huh? This is one of the stupidest overgeneralizations I have ever read on this forum. The majority of this discussion Is dealing with children toddler age and younger.

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Beckerhead #42

 

[Bladite]

a perfectly valid reason for a safe is that your stuff is valuable to you, and you don't want people taking it AND/OR your people are valuable to you and you don't want them making mistakes.

some knives and guns are VERY expensive. so are most people in your life

 

[Guyon]

I agree that you can't lock everything up. Toddlers can get ahold of kitchen knives a lot easier than you think.
While most of my stuff is locked up, my EDC knives are not. Handguns, however, do go in a keypad lockbox, for the safety of my children, but probably moreso, for that of other people's children.
The most important thing is to teach your children well.

Let's keep the harsh judgments and inflammatory wording to a minimum here, or it'll be band camp for a small orchestra.

 

[FCFER]

Before the wife and I had kids, I always kept a loaded shotgun under the bed. I showed the wife how to use it and make it safe, then just left it there for emergency purposes.
After the kids came I had to re-evaluate that. The shotgun was placed in a locker, and I had to replace it with a sheathed tomahawk or longknife.

My daughters are 5 and 11 now and have learned that Dad has sharp things around and to stay out of them. As soon as they were old enough to understand, I made it a point to show them how dangerous the tools can be. Fortunetly for me, my daughters have no interest in pointy objects. That may change if a boy is in my future, but thats a bridge I'll cross when I get there.

As the girls arent infants anymore I leave an unsheathed kukri beside the night stand for suprize night time visitors. My knife collection resides in a unlocked drawer, and most firearms are under lock and key (with one exception, which is kept where little hands cant get to). The girls know that Dad's knife drawer is off limits unless Dad is with them and is helping them get what they need.

I think the best thing I have done was taking my daughter to a hunters education class when she turned 11.
She was taught hunting ethics and safety, as well as firearm safety, which was discussed heavily.
I was suprized how much of the safety lessons carried over to even how she handles knives! I was very happy with the outcome of the class.
Also, attend the class with your child even if you have already taken it. I had a really good time discussing the class lessons with her after the class was over.

 

[GingivitisKahn]

It's funny but this thread has got me thinking. I don't recall how old my kids were when they got their first knives but they were both pretty young. Similarly, I'm sure there was a time in my life before I had (and carried everywhere) a knife, but I'll be danged if I can remember it.

As to band camp... <twitch>

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Beckerhead #42

 

[Idaho Guy]

I apolagize to anyone I may have offended, my original post was meant to provoke thought not insults. I would NEVER leave a loaded gun laying around but our world is full of "sharp things" and IN MY OPINION the sooner a child learns how to handle or avoid those objects the better.

 

[kfgk14]

No kids, but when I was still under dad's roof I had to teach my brother how to safely handle a knife. SAK bit him a good one when he wouldn't listen to me about how to open and close it, he learned pretty damn fast when I simply handed him the household first aid kit and told him to deal (it wasn't a cut that was going to put him in the hospital or anything, but I wanted to prove a point about listening to me around tools, I know a hell of a lot more about them than he does). From then on I could hand him anything and he knew how to safely handle it (I trained him on the locking mechanisms of all my folders of course, but he could draw a knife from a sheath safely, etc.).
He still carries the scar from that first cut.

 

[hkman47]

I always wondered why our knives that we carry are so dangerous, but the kitchen knives that might be even sharper and bigger can be left out on the counter or the lower drawer and even raise an eyebrow. Every day I take turns with my 6 year-old twins and my 7 year-old getting my knife for me. They just know the rules, as was pointed out by swo many others in this thread.

 

[EseeDownUnder]

Zrfunited & Idaho Guy.
Apology accepted, this thread did veer somewhat off the intended direction..............a direction I never thought a thread such as this could go.............Anyways water under the bridge!!!

The responses from alot of you mentions some form of knife safety & correct handling.
A while back Moose posted a thread about correct handling etc.............a valuable thread & I anxiously await part2.........?

I will post a separate thread where you guys can post safe knife handling tips for kids..............sounds like a good idea!!