We are not allowed knives at work, alternative methods/tools have to be found/used ie cable ties are cut using snips with blunt points 🙄
Got my first knife around 8. It could only be taken out of the house when I was either working on the farm for stuff like cutting hay bale string or when going fishing. No cubs/scouts/foreign travel or camping for me. Carry one in my Rucksack and Camelbac but it has probably seized up with lack of use 🙄
Can`t remember buying my son one even though he did cubs/scouts and DofE.
My granddad bought be a SAK climber model for my 11th birthday. Still have it today minus the tweezers. Think I cut the back of my hand testing the blade (as all people who own knives do, surely? Ooh, is this sharp? Yes. Yes it is).
Treasured possession. Never stabbed anyone. Never used in anger. Carried to scout camps.
Since then I've got various leatherman and fb knives.
What age you give your child a knife all depends on how you think they will behave with it. There's no perfect age really is there. (But i suspect 24 months is a little young to carry a machette). Just my 2 pennies worth.
My kids have got one of these for their seventh birthdays.
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I let them use mine when they were 5.
They like these ones to make spoons:
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They were using them at nursery aged 6.
No big problems or injuries.
