Kids doing youtube knife video reviews

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Seems they are more common. This is a good thing in theory, until you watch a few. :stupid:

Almost every kid I see on youtube shows a cheap knife (I know that's all they can afford), but then demonstrate delinquent behavior (I know I'm sounding like my Mother!)

One kid stabs around the air and the drapes in his parents house, falling over almost onto the knife. Another demonstrates a knife and smokes EVapor (kid must have been 9). They usually show very little understanding. I did find a few really good ones though.

Now I look at adult knife reviews, and they are sometimes the same right? I mean CutleryLover reviews booze and smoke all the time. I love his channel, but does it affect children watching these reviews and making their own?

My kids love knives, and they are young. I think I did a really good job so far with this, and they don't mess around with them or play with them like they are toys. What input do you have on children making youtube knife reviews?
 
Honestly? I dont like it. From what I have seen you either have kids who like you say are irresponsible with the knives and they cast a poor light on the hobby. And the few that take it seriously take themselves way too seriously and they get defensive if you try and correct them when they make a mistake. I think kids need to decide if they are making a knife review video or a jackass (the tv show) . That isnt to say that some young kids cant be mature and responsible. Im just saying that it isnt the majority when concering who is making videos.
 
Yo Mama said:
Seems they are more common. This is a good thing in theory, until you watch a few. :stupid:

Almost every kid I see on youtube shows a cheap knife (I know that's all they can afford), but then demonstrate delinquent behavior (I know I'm sounding like my Mother!)

One kid stabs around the air and the drapes in his parents house, falling over almost onto the knife. Another demonstrates a knife and smokes EVapor (kid must have been 9). They usually show very little understanding. I did find a few really good ones though.

Now I look at adult knife reviews, and they are sometimes the same right? I mean CutleryLover reviews booze and smoke all the time. I love his channel, but does it affect children watching these reviews and making their own?

My kids love knives, and they are young. I think I did a really good job so far with this, and they don't mess around with them or play with them like they are toys. What input do you have on children making youtube knife reviews?
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I don't know what kind of a place you grew up in, but I grew up in a german catholic family and remember my dad always having a beer with dinner and not seeing it as unusual. He smoked too. I think things like those are going to have more of an impact than what youtube reviewer is doing.
 
I think kids need to decide if they are making a knife review video or a jackass (the tv show) . That isnt to say that some young kids cant be mature and responsible. Im just saying that it isnt the majority when concering who is making videos.
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Exactly my thoughts, but you said it better than I :)

my dad always having a beer with dinner and not seeing it as unusual. He smoked too. I think things like those are going to have more of an impact than what youtube reviewer is doing.
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Agreed. I didn't mean to focus on smoking or drinking, I think PURPLEDC focused on what I'm most concerned with.
 
I have only watched one kid do a knife review and it was okay. It was a little girl reviewing a TGLB. It was obviously put together and shot by a parent in a well controlled environment.

My kid has her own knives and is learning to use them properly under proper parental supervision. I don't particularly like other peoples children, mostly because I don't like the parenting skills of most other people. I sure as heck don't want to watch a knife review done by a kid that was raised by most of the parental population of this country. But hey, there is a lot of stupid stuff out there that I don't want to watch.

As for knife reviewers influencing dumb kids to do dumb knife reviews and what not? Well, I don't let my kid watch anything unsupervised and I sure as hell wouldn't let her watch a beer or vaping review even supervised. Bad kids are generally raised by bad parents who let them do whatever they want. The world is full of people like that.

I enjoy CutleryLovers reviews on various stuff (mostly knives) but I am a well adjusted adult raising a well disciplined child.
 
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Kids are the products of their parents (I use this term lightly) in the end.

Parenting is IMO seriously lacking in today's Society as it seems the general train of thought is that everyone else raises their kids, the School system etc.

The so called parents are more concerned about their own agendas and assorted BS than they are about their kids and that if they actually even stay together and with today's society and as screwed up as it really is.

It's highly unlikely that the parents will stay together with the divorce rates near 60% and the typical BS in today's Society.

So for the most part the kids really don't have a chance from the time they are born to actually become responsible adults.
 
Just to also keep it focused on blades, I notice the kids that really are parented well. They truly understand what a knife is for. I think it's so neat that a kid gets into it, and knows the steel, country of origin, blade shape, manufacturer, materials, ect..... They show a respectful presentation and I think it shows maturity and should be encouraged.

I wish I saw this more, but it's the minority of videos.
 
It's called parenting or lack of....

Last year I spent a Saturday afternoon with a bunch of kids ( under 18) , "playing" with knives , axes and spears.

They were Boy Scouts , they were demonstrating how do start camp fires , build shelters and use improvised spears to hunt.

So there is hope.
 
I have seen some of those as well. Kids are watching and computer savvy. My Father would have never let me do one of those. DM
 
JPD1998 said:
It's called parenting or lack of....

Last year I spent a Saturday afternoon with a bunch of kids ( under 18) , "playing" with knives , axes and spears.

They were Boy Scouts , they were demonstrating how do start camp fires , build shelters and use improvised spears to hunt.

So there is hope.
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Exactly.

I'm sure we've a few members to blame for this too. You know who you are. Get off of YouTube and the forum and for the love of God take the damned iPad away from your 8 year old. Then go outside, back yard, public park, lake, forest, whatever and teach them to sharpen a stick. Maybe even make a fire(there's a YouTube video or two). That's right. You will actually have to USE the knife. No safe queens here.

Couldn't keep me inside when I was a kid and I'm only 28. We didn't have iPads and YouTube, but we did have Super Nintendo and I knew plenty of kids that never left their rooms... Because their parents never left the house, save maybe for a drive-thru.
 
I've seen a couple good ones from kids that were obviously supervised/assisted by adults, but yes most are channeling mall ninjas and displaying a perfect example of how more parents these days fail than succeed.

That said, sadly there's no shortage of adults doing stupid stuff with knives as well on the internet. As far as delinquent behavior, a case could be made that it sells product, and VERY well. If it was not for enough customers being attracted to things like trying to simulate illegal (in most states) automatic knives, become mall ninjas themselves, and carry in places they probably shouldn't be things like flippers, assisted knives, battle axes, and deep carry clips would have never made it off the drawing board.
 
Is there any topic more certain to generate waves of smug superiority than how others parent their children?
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Or those oblivious to the effect poor parenting has on society. Hipsters always think they are above everyone else, and look down on those with traditional values.
 
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Is there any topic more certain to generate waves of smug superiority than how others parent their children?
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Right vs wrong doesn't equal smug superiority.

I'm a therapeutic foster parent and I've parented over a dozen kids in the last 15 years , guess which parents get their kids taken away from them?

Yes and some cases do involve the internet and videos.
 
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Or those oblivious to the effect poor parenting has on society. Hipsters always think they are above everyone else, and look down on those with traditional values.
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Effects on society is an interesting subject. Divorce rate is down, teen pregnancy is down, violent crime is down, drug use (other than marijuana) is down. Maybe parents are doing a better job than we give them credit for. ;)
 
Insipid Moniker said:
Is there any topic more certain to generate waves of smug superiority than how others parent their children?
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I don't believe that there is a template to raising kids so there isn't one way or a method that is really 100%.

It's how the actual kids are or how they end up that is the results on how well the Parents did.
 
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Effects on society is an interesting subject. Divorce rate is down, teen pregnancy is down, violent crime is down, drug use (other than marijuana) is down. Maybe parents are doing a better job than we give them credit for. ;)
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Mental health diagnosis is at an all time high, mass shootings rising since 2000, children graduating with a 2nd grade education, obesity rates at all time highs, US children with highest poverty rate of any industrialized nation........(want me to keep going?) Doesn't look like we are doing very well.

And I don't know where you're getting your info, but drug use especially prescription and heroin are sharply up.
 
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It really depends on the child and how mature they are. I've met kids who I think were definitely responsible enough to own a pocket knife. However there are also children who I wouldn't want to give a butter knife to! I remember one particular knife review where the kid sounded like he was around 11 years old and he was reviewing a 8" bowie knife...it made me feel pretty nervous to be honest. Although I don't know the kid. For all I know, he could be more mature than me!

I got my first knife when I was 12. To be honest, I don't think I was mature enough for such a responsibility. If I were to do it again I think I'd wait 3 or 4 more years. Obviously I knew not to play with it in public, or God forbid, pull it on someone, but I still don't think that I understood that it was a tool and not a toy.

Now I'm 17 and I think I'm mature enough to own and use folding knives. I prefer smaller non-threatening knives that conform to the laws of the state that I live in, particularly Opinels.

And my parents did a great job raising me in my opinion. Any faults I had then or have now are my fault, not my parents (again in my opinion). I haven't nor do I plan to drink, smoke, or do drugs. To be honest I'm more interested in girls. But I also know not to have sex before I think my partner or I am ready, either
 
You forgot the US is also the highest % of single parent children in developed nations. We're the only developed nation that has no mandated paid vacation or maternity leave, and the average offered vacation/maternity leave is much lower than our peers. We have some of the highest # of hours worked annually for full time (except for Asian countries). The highest health care costs not only as a % of GDP but also per capita, for what we're quickly learning is mediocre care (and getting worse). We have very high infant morality rates and low life spans compared to other developed nations. The highest secondary education costs for what is arguably sub-par. We also have some of the most lax restrictions on chemicals and pesticides used on/in foods so we consume.

Its not all bad though, we beat most countries in food, taxes, utilities, and gas prices (even when it was $4 a gallon)! Also while the European countries might only work about 1500 hours a year to our 1700 for full time, those Asian countries are well over 2200 so it could be worse!

Of course if you don't like it you are free to leave :) but it's interesting because we as Americans continue to have this belief that we are the best country by far, have the best of everything, excel at everything, and that was probably true until the 80-90's, but since then we've been complacent and everyone else has been catching up and in some cases surpassing us, for example China is now the #1 economy etc.
 
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