My son's khuk

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wldmn13

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My 2 1/2 year old son is constantly asking me to hold and/or use "Dada's knife". I did a whole lot of cutting on Saturday, so I decided to make him one of his own. I traced the profile of my village GRS on cardboard, reinforced the length with four 1/8" diameter sticks, and wrapped the whole thing in tape.

He had a great time helping me with it, and since he still has a little trouble not hitting the wrong things with it, Mommy has said it only comes out when Daddy's knife does.

I made an exception the other night. To combat his growing fear of monsters coming for him in the night, we tell him the Mommy, Daddy, the dog, and the cats all fight any monsters that he might see at night to chase them away. On his own he said "Dada fight monsters with Dada's knife", so when he insisted on getting a dinosaur video, he wanted to fight the monsters he saw, so I took his knife out and let him have at it, witht the understanding that he not actually hit the tv. He loved it.

My son proudly displaying his knife:
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4261/khuk3.jpg

Fighting the monsters:
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9595/khuk1.jpg
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3894/khuk2.jpg

edit- I found out the lens was smudged by little fingers afterI took the pictures...
 
"kids with knives" - attaboy!


Another way you can do it is to make them from 1/4" thick basswood. It does make for harder hits, though - gotta be vigilant. Oh, and I always make sure there are 2 around....gotta defend myself sometimes!
 
great moments you have there.


My sons often use sticks as pretend khuks. I've let the 7 year old cut some branches under supervision with a BAS



munk
 
I think 7 is a great age to start 'em out on real blades. Carefully, cautiously and under supervision.

Though, I was swinging an axe at that age with no supervision....:confused:

Does that make me a paranoid parent?

I promise I'm not a soccer Dad....:rolleyes:
 
He'll be eight this summer.

Dan, I'm more frightened of knives than I am of firearms with the little fellows.
Guns are used under supervision ( as are khuks) and accidents seem highly unlikely with safe gun handling.

BUT khuks? I tell him that he must choose swings of the blade by asking himself what would happen if something went wrong, which direction is the blade heading, could it strike a leg or arm?

The main concerns are the blade slipping sideways on the flat, and the blade coming out of hand and into the air.

You have to watch the littler brothers at all times. Not only where the knife holder swings, but where everyonelse is at the time.

I know one hard mistroke and someone might not retain all the use of a leg or arm, or even worse.




munk
 
It has been common thru the ages for kids to play with "trainer" models of weapons, and even then ya can get a little dinged up.

Great pix! (well, pix look a little foggy, but the subject is cool.

I hafta scan this pic of me 20 month old with a familiar triangle box and a huge smile...just when does HIKV strike the young?:D

Keith
 
Way too cute!

My cousin is almost four and is a bit afraid of the bad guy on "The Fairly Odd Parents". Maybe a kardboard khuk would help him. Maybe his parents would boil me in oil...

Thanks for sharing the pics, wldmn13!
 
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