What our kids EDC

[scríbhneoir]

Warning--not for the faint of heart--a lot of pink. :)

We try to stress to the kids the need to be prepared. Both are scouts, and both like bright and sharpy things, fishing, biking, camping, and hiking. The 8-year-old rearranged her stuff today and announced that she had everything exactly where she wanted it on her keychain. So...

red whistle
red Sharpie mini
water bottle holder on red carabiner
two Photon lights
leopard-print house key
pink folding brush
pink hair doodad

Can't show you what is inside, but it is most likely full of dollar bills, candy/bubblegum, disgusting-flavored lip balm, and her daddy's old cell phone that she keeps charged to annoy me with the ring tones.

While she has been instructed on the use of knives and can handle them around us, 10 is the magic age for a first Spyderco. :)

[Grits]

Teaching children to become adults starts at an early age. I'd say that when your kids do become adults that they will be ready with flying colors. With my step kids I kept telling the wife "Cut the cord, cut the cord, she's 25 cut the cord." Nice job of getting started early.

[LowWorm]

Pink hair doodads are probably one of the most underrated EDC items. :) Or any color hair doodad, for that matter. I need to try to remember to carry at least a single black elastic, because I can't tell you how many times I've needed one and didn't, for whatever reasons.

Love the pink. Nothing wrong with pink. And whatever it takes to get people to get the concept of EDC...if it be a lot of your favorite color, all the more interesting.

[Peter Atwood]

Yeah, they are definitely under rated, I know I couldn't get along without all my pink hair clips and brushes..... :P :lol

Seriously, she looks like she is on her way to being well prepared. :) I certainly have tried to do the same with my step kids and they have had a good time with it especially now that they are grown up. They have no shortage of flashlights and little tools.

[scríbhneoir]

Teaching children to become adults starts at an early age.* I'd say that when your kids do become adults that they will be ready with flying colors.* With my step kids I kept telling the wife "Cut the cord, cut the cord, she's 25 cut the cord."* Nice job of getting started early.


Thanks! It is such a different world from the one in which we grew up. On the one hand, we really stress that they be allowed to be kids--it is their job. But on the other, we're working really hard to ensure that they become self-reliant, self-confident thinkers and be equipped to blaze their own trails, so to speak. As a kid, I always had a pen knife, and we had the old olive-green flashlights with the different lenses and cans of c-rations with the spiffy opener that we got from our dad. Those were some good times, simpler times.

[scríbhneoir]

They have no shortage of flashlights and little tools.


And they have a great connection to the source, eh? :lol

[Malcontent]

Thanks!* It is such a different world from the one in which we grew up.* On the one hand, we really stress that they be allowed to be kids--it is their job.* But on the other, we're working really hard to ensure that they become self-reliant, self-confident thinkers and be equipped to blaze their own trails, so to speak.* As a kid, I always had a pen knife, and we had the old olive-green flashlights with the different lenses and cans of c-rations with the spiffy opener that we got from our dad.* Those were some good times, simpler times.


This is so true. As a kid, I cannot remember not having a knife at any age. Even in highshool, everyone carried a pocket knife, and most of us had a full rifle rack hanging in the back window of our trucks. Simple times indeed.

[greenLED]

My son regularly carries a Juice CS4, keys, Sharpie, FireFli (smallest LED light ever that I got from Jsburlys.com), and a tiny Gerber knife autographed by Mr. Gerber himself. I don't know where he got all that from... ;)

Other than that, he might be lugging the electronics gizmo currently on his rotation.

[scríbhneoir]

My son regularly carries a Juice CS4, keys, Sharpie, FireFli (smallest LED light ever that I got from Jsburlys.com), and a tiny Gerber knife autographed by Mr. Gerber himself. I don't know where he got all that from... ;)

Other than that, he might be lugging the electronics gizmo currently on his rotation.


Genetics? ;D

[greenLED]

Genetics? ;D
...prolly... my dad carried a SAK everywhere he went (in a holster, never in his pocket - keychain too bulky). Back to kids and EDC:

[mossyoak]

haha i edc ink (breat cancer awarness wrist band)
when i was 8 all i needed was my trusty imperial schrade two-blade that didnt leave my side and that was just ten years ago. (private schools didnt mind me having it) now in academy all i have is a swiss mini champ w/light and pen, and a swisscard

[scríbhneoir]

Well, thanks to one of my lucky finds during my recent excursion to Big Lots!, we've added a new item to our kids' edc--a compass-thermometer-whistle-magnifying glass. For $1.50. ;D

[Gadget Guy]

Very nice find Scribbs! Do you think Peter will make some in titanium? :laugh:

GG

[webley445]

Heh, and when our kids grow up and have their own kids, they'll be talking about how these are the good old days....

[Goldtanker]

One of my granddaughters was facinated by all my multitools so I gave her a bladeless Victorinox for her eighth birthday.

http://www.swissknivesexpress.com/vicswisarbla.html

She is here visiting us from Hawaii with her mom and dad (dad, my youngest son, is a major in the army with the 25th Inf and is on the way back to Iraq at the end of the month). Tomorrow I am giving her a Spyderco Byrd Harp for birthday number 9. Kind of a hard time for her so I'm hoping this will help a little.

[hatchetjack]

My son has been putting together an EDC and takes it on all our family trips.

He asked me to post so you can see what he's done.

hatchet-

[Craig720]

Tell him he's lucky.

WAY back when I was 10 (never you mind how long ago :)), I would not have been allowed to carry, own, or handle a lockback knife.

Jeez. :(

[0dBm]

Jack, you've trained him well. Kudos to you.

[pipedreams]

He is more prepaired that most grown-ups. Bravo!

todd

[Chuck G.]

His stuff is better than mine.

[greenLED]

Merged so we can have a centralized thread to discuss what our kids EDC, instead of having multiple individual threads disappear into the depths of the EDCF archive.

[Gadget Guy]

Cool, what is it called now?

GG

[kamkazmoto]

My daughter EDC's a Lil Loco from shivworks http://www.mdtactical.com/shivworks.htm somehow she managed to borrow it from my drawer. She likes it because it is cute and the sheath is black. Now if it only had skulls...

[0dBm]

MD Tactical?

MD as in "Mad Dog" Kevin McClung?

[Craig720]

His stuff is better than mine.


That's what I was thinking.

Not much better, but better.

Most of my money is pre-spent on boring things -- like the mortgage!

Sometimes being an adult isn't all it's cracked up to be. :(

-- Craig

[greenLED]

Cool, what is it called now?The new title is towards the top of every post: "What our kids EDC"

[CanDo]

Well, thanks to one of my lucky finds during my recent excursion to Big Lots!, we've added a new item to our kids' edc--a compass-thermometer-whistle-magnifying glass. For $1.50. ;D




I have on of those (under a different name), and I love it :)
I don't consistently EDC it, but I find it in my pockets often enough. I haven't tried out the magnifying glass for fire starting, and am unsure of whether or not it is large enough.
The compass continues to amaze me as it lines up right with two gps systems and my watch.

[scríbhneoir]

Cool, I'll have to have konrad check that out with his gps. The girls have already attached them to their rings of edc things!

[jggonzalez]

This doesn't count as EDC, but I had to throw it in. Here's a pic of my little girl with her Spyderco Jester. She's too little to carry it, but she's allowed to use it if I'm around to watch her. This was the first piece in her knife collection. She just recently added an Atwood MiniPrybabyXL to her collection.

[scríbhneoir]

Pink is good!* Our eldest daughter carries a pink Ladybug.* Great pic! :)

[Gadget Guy]

Spyderco jester & a mini prybaby! She has a better collection than most people here. :laugh: She is one lucky little girl!

[hatchetjack]

Here' my son Ethan with his kit and favorite fixed blades.

hatchet-

[mtnfolk mike]

very nice pics there hatchet..... O0 your son has some nice knives already.... ;D he takes after his dad i imagine...
my 8 year old son is also on his way to a cool little collection of his own... he also has a nice little collection of longbows going....

if you folks are ever in california, drop us a line.... :D

mike