Youngest Knife Designer?

JCaswell

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Kids are really funny!!

My just-turned-4 year old daughter has seen me designing knives and apparently it looks like fun, because she's taken it up.

Here are her latest folder designs (I think one is some kind of folding butter knife:confused:).
Next to her designs is an example of some of what she sees me working on.

Gotta love the little arrows.:D
Next she'll be calling out tolerances. :D:D
 

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That is priceless! Kids are too funny! The top one looks kind of like a turtle, and the other one looks like a big tick. So are you going to make them for her?:D -Matt-
 
I agree with grease-man. You really should make them, keeping them as close to her design as possible. Keep the drawings with them and give them to her as a gift when she is old enough to appreciate them.

This is so cool.

Ickie
 
Thanks guys,
It is a fun time (challenging sometimes too, as many of you already know).

Bruce, I'll put you down for one of those. She's running a little behind now. Might take 10 years or so ...:eek:

Matt, I think she'll have to do it herself. She already torches glass beads with her mom sometimes. (You should see her with those oversized dydidium glasses on.):thumbup:
 
scottickes said:
I agree with grease-man. You really should make them, keeping them as close to her design as possible. Keep the drawings with them and give them to her as a gift when she is old enough to appreciate them.

This is so cool.

Ickie
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Hmmm. We'll have to see ...

What do you think, Friction, slippies? or linerlock?:D
 
I did some work in developmental psychology in college. If she really drew that, then she is significantly ahead of the developmental curve. Even if she's just copying your blueprint, arrows are an advanced concept and shape. Keep that pencil in her little hands. She'll be a fast study with the alphabet too I bet. She's gonna kick ass in first grade!
 
bjr said:
I did some work in developmental psychology in college. If she really drew that, then she is significantly ahead of the developmental curve. Even if she's just copying your blueprint, arrows are an advanced concept and shape. Keep that pencil in her little hands. She'll be a fast study with the alphabet too I bet. She's gonna kick ass in first grade!
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She's quite the artist and has had her alphabet down about a year now. She can write phonetically (which doesn't mean it's spelled right), so "Grandma" might be "Groma", but we're encouraging that and slowly introducing the rules. (A lot of the rules don't make any sense, after all, so I figure we should introduce them into her little paradigm softly. It's fun for her now so we want to keep it that way. :thumbup:

Anytime she draws a knife it has the arrows pointing to parts of it because that's how she sees me drawing knives. :D

Here's one of my favorite drawings--her first "piggy". She did it when she was 2 1/2. I have a portfolio with everything dated that's about 3 inches thick:eek:!
 

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My parents,who had art backgrounds, encouraged us in many ways. One was that we had a 4'x8' board where we would display our drawings ....That pig is great for a 2 1/2 year old , she's got some artistic talent !! Encourage her.
 
Great kid you've got there ,Joe. You are right to encourage her and enjoy her as she learns.

This reminds me of a really funny story.
Back in the 1980's,a close friend of mine was married to a teacher.His wife was a new graduate with a degree in early child development (a fairly new concept then.). She (the teacher) told her first pre-K class at the first day of school to draw a picture of what you did this summer. Most were stick figures and barely discernible dogs and cats. One little 5 year old girl drew a very good drawing of several adults children, all clearly naked and the genitalia very accurately drawn. Some were laying down ,some were standing up. The teacher became very alarmed and call in the school principal, who called the mother and asked if she would some down.The mother came and they showed her the picture. She looked at it and smiled, saying, "I know, she's a little Picasso, isn't she." When the principal pointed out that this was a picture of 'What I Did This Summer', The mom laughed, replying, "Oh,we spent the summer in New England at a resort.....we are naturalists (nudists)!

You've got to love kids.
Stacy
 
Dang, man. That piggie drawing is excellent for a 2 1/2 year old. That's how old my little girl is now. Maybe I need to encourage her drawing a bit more... But she could recite the whole alphabet & count to 20 before her second birthday...
 
Joe

Get her a copy of "How to Teach Your Baby to Read" and "How to Teach Your Baby Math". Search for them on Amazon.com. The author's web site is "www.iahp.org". The flash cards are available on e-Bay to save you having to make them yourself.

We ended up using a different program to teach our boys to read and have been able to teach them to start reading quite early. They are now reading and doing math several years ahead of other kids their age (8 and 12). Our observation is that kids that read a lot don't exhibit the symptoms and behaviours associated with ADD unlike kids who spend a lot of time in front of the TV. They are able to occupy themselves with a book instead of needing the TV to act as a babysitter.

A mind is a teribble thing to waste, especially if it is your childs.

Phil
 
Thats pretty good. She does good arrows. Mine just turned 5.
 
pso said:
Our observation is that kids that read a lot don't exhibit the symptoms and behaviours associated with ADD unlike kids who spend a lot of time in front of the TV. They are able to occupy themselves with a book instead of needing the TV to act as a babysitter.

A mind is a teribble thing to waste, especially if it is your childs.

Phil
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I must be the major exception to that one :D I actually had a reading problem, I read so much that it got to the point that my teachers were frisking me every morning to make sure I didn't have any books.
 
Back in 1954 my mother tried to put me in first grade (there was no kindergarten or Pre-K here ,then). She was told that I had to be 6 to enter school (I was four). She asked why? He can read, write, do algebra, and knows all 48 states. ( I had been educated by my Grandfather since age 1. Some of you know the story.) They told her I would not fit in. She put me in a private school, which was a huge financial burden in those days (Dad was an E-7, made something like $6000. I never knew, but suspect Grandpa paid for the school).....

Point is, now days there programs and teaching for gifted youth. Cultivate and encourage your children as much as you can. Sit down and read a book with them. Take out some paper and pencils. TURN OFF THE TV and unplug the PS2!!!!! It will do them more good than the best college education fifteen years from now.
Stacy
 
I am in high school and have had a rough time slogging through the school years, If I never watched tv I would be a pretty decent knife maker and, moreover, an excellent student. If I lived on wonder bread and cola I would probably "need" ridalin, which brings up a good point, health. encourage lots of new foods! get your kids into sports! Obesity is a global epidemic that can be prevented. you two keep up the good work! maybe you should try a collaboration knife??
 
heck ya, send that kid into art, just tell here to do craft/material studies in metal and they you will never need to hire anyone to be a personal metallurgist and you can say to some macho guy that is trying to show off "my daughter knows more about metal than you do" and make him feel less manly :-P

keep pushing that art, and dont let her be lazy and not do the stuff she doesnt want to do cause wow the art school im at is supposed to be really good and there are a lot of lazy people here that are gona get droped from the foundation classes pretty quick.



you sooOOOoooOOo need to make the knife for her and give it to her for like one of the big birthdays or at her weeding or when she has a baby, that would be rather humorous
-matt
 
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