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We are going camping this weekend and I will be giving my daughter her first knife. We have been camping and hiking recently and it is a new thing for us. I grew up hunting, fishing, camping, but my wife was never an outdoors person before we started up recently.
I have been showing my daughter some basic knife use (building a hobo stove, shaving sticks for tender, basic rules about cutting away from yourself etc.) using my EDC a wenger s10. She said she wanted a swiss army knife of her own, so several weeks ago I showed her a Vic classic at walmart. I told her when I thought she was ready I would get her one. So this weekend I am going to give it to her on a piece of paracord to wear around her neck.
She's 9 and hasn't really handled any kives except what I have been teaching her the last few weeks. I will let her wear the knife while we are outdoors and I'm around to supervise, and eventually just turn it over to her completly.
My first knife was a Vic pocket pal when I was 5 or 6, I thought for her a classic would be a good starter, she has already said she wants a bigger one like mine with more "stuff" (can opener, bottle opener etc). I told her if she proves responsible I will get her a bigger one (probably a cadet engraved with her name)
Those of you with kids, what was the first knife you gave them, and how old where they? What made you choose that one?
I have been showing my daughter some basic knife use (building a hobo stove, shaving sticks for tender, basic rules about cutting away from yourself etc.) using my EDC a wenger s10. She said she wanted a swiss army knife of her own, so several weeks ago I showed her a Vic classic at walmart. I told her when I thought she was ready I would get her one. So this weekend I am going to give it to her on a piece of paracord to wear around her neck.
She's 9 and hasn't really handled any kives except what I have been teaching her the last few weeks. I will let her wear the knife while we are outdoors and I'm around to supervise, and eventually just turn it over to her completly.
My first knife was a Vic pocket pal when I was 5 or 6, I thought for her a classic would be a good starter, she has already said she wants a bigger one like mine with more "stuff" (can opener, bottle opener etc). I told her if she proves responsible I will get her a bigger one (probably a cadet engraved with her name)
Those of you with kids, what was the first knife you gave them, and how old where they? What made you choose that one?
