Bear Grylls: let children play with knives, The Telegraph

Bear Grylls, the adventurer, says young children should learn to play with knives – even though it left his six-year-old son with “blood pouring everywhere”

Children should be allowed to play with knives because it can “empower” them by teaching them how to do something dangerous but safely, Bear Grylls has said.

The adventurer said a “mega-sharp penknife” is a great tool for the young, even though his six-year-old son, Huckleberry, recently had an accident that would have led many other parents to take the opposite view.

“Sometimes in life we get cut. My six-year-old recently cut himself on a knife, and came in with blood pouring everywhere, but, you know what? He’s not cut himself again.  Full article

Share:

FacebookTwitterEmailShare