Thread: Gonna be a Daddy again!!

Congratulations to you all thats wounderful news.
I agree with you on your choice of Hierlooms my grand children stand to get a few razors as well.I've already got my stepson into the art.Paul

Congrats Now don't tell us it wasn't fun tryin'

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

Congrats Now don't tell us it wasn't fun tryin'

Thanks,
actually, we have been trying for SO long that it really started to suck, no pun intended...

It became so buisness like, my wife would say, "you want to make a deposit..?'' and I'd agree, of course. Then afterwards she would say "thanks for coming" and I'd say, "good doing business with you..." and we'd go about our day. Honestly, it was pretty bad. Dont get me wrong, there were good times in between the "work week" but that one week a month was a killer...

Originally Posted by Shaun

Thanks everybody, We are all very excited.
Ash, there was a thread a while back about guys buying a Zeepk for their kids to "shave" with. There were disputes about teaching the kids to play with sharp objects ect... I am thinking about getting one for my son though, he's 9. I think thats old enough to start learning the technique. Then I think what I'll do is maybe get a Wapi, rescale it in something nice and have it engraved when I give it to him.

Hi Shaun,

I won't be letting him near a razor for some time yet.

To be honest, I don't think I would give him a neutered razor to play with at all (even when older), he must learn from the outset that they must be treated with respect.

I don't intend to "force" him to use one, if he wishes to do so then I will encourage him, but if he doesn't, well, so be it, I have plenty of time to convince him

I bought a few Wapi's a little while ago with the "one for me, one for him and one spare to mess up on" thoughts. I intend to rescale them. The one that I honed up seems to be fairly good - but I don't think that I honed it perfectly just yet. still a work in progress.

Cheers,
Ash.

Congratulations Shaun! Sorry to hear about your struggle to procreate... I had the opposite problem. I swear to God that if I looked at my wife too hard she turned up pregnant. Five kids later and a visit to the doctor for some alterations to the plumbing and now its all the and none of the .

Yeah that was me who de-horned the zeepk and is using it as a teaching tool for the kids... not that there was much "horn" to begin with. There was some debate over whether it was good idea or not... I suppose that is a decision that each parent has to weigh individually.

I would submit that there is a world of difference between fear and respect... out here in the wild west we teach them to ride before they walk and shoot before they get to get to kindergarten. Most importantly most kids around here are taught to respect every person who warrants it, every tool they use, every critter they eat and the land under their feet; and not to fear any one of those things.

Cheers,
Justin

Congratulations! It's a wonderful thing having more than one. (I've kind of seen it from both extremes ... grew up as an only child, then once married my story was eerily similar to Justin's.)

That idea about celebrating the pregnancy month by month with a NOS razor and the Robt Williams after the birth ... that is an old and deeply respected tradition and is believed to bring great good fortune to the whole family. <-- If your wife doesn't believe it, you can now assure her that you read it on the Internet. If she still doesn't believe it she can ask me.

Rich

Originally Posted by w12code3

I would submit that there is a world of difference between fear and respect... out here in the wild west we teach them to ride before they walk and shoot before they get to get to kindergarten. Most importantly most kids around here are taught to respect every person who warrants it, every tool they use, every critter they eat and the land under their feet; and not to fear any one of those things.

Well said Justin. at the risk of hijacking Shaun's thread - I agree with you on the ideals - teach the child to respect everything. That is wonderful creed.

Children need to be allowed to fail at things - this is how they learn. The modern world seems to want to overprotect the child to the extent where they can not be allowed to try things for fear of harm. By all means protect your child, but know when to let them try and fail, just ensure that should they fail, they won't be doing great harm to themselves. (This is not aimed at you in any way Justin, just my thoughts)

This is my reasoning - if they are going to learn to straight shave, they need to use the real deal. Sure, it should be under supervision to ensure they don't do anything dumb, but let them try. If one thinks they are going to hurt themselves or the equipment then perhaps it is too early, or perhaps one needs to learn to trust the child more.

It is a tough call, one that I have many years to ponder yet. In the mean time I enjoy my son learning new things every day. Currently his language skills are rocketing ahead. He is saying new 10s of new words daily and starting to structure complex sentances.. It is a wonderful time!

Cheers,
Ash.

Congrats man. Good to hear.

Originally Posted by Shaun

Thanks,
actually, we have been trying for SO long that it really started to suck, no pun intended...

It became so buisness like, my wife would say, "you want to make a deposit..?'' and I'd agree, of course. Then afterwards she would say "thanks for coming" and I'd say, "good doing business with you..." and we'd go about our day. Honestly, it was pretty bad. Dont get me wrong, there were good times in between the "work week" but that one week a month was a killer...

It's terrible, but I laughed so hard at that. I'm sorry

Congratulations Shaun!

At least your wife and you had kept a sense of humour about it, judging by the comments the two of you were making.

Here's to many, many sleepless nights!



Sandy