Thread: 7yo damaged my strop!

Kids...yeah, I was one of 'em, but I sure don't understand them!

My 7yo daughter decided this morning to go into the bathroom and claw up my SRD Premium 1 strop! When I asked why she had done it, she just broke into tears and said, 'I don't know'. Seriously? You came into the bathroom and thought to yourself, 'hey, I'm just going to claw this $85 strop all up...why not.'

I don't think that the strop is seriously damaged, but every time I strop up a razor, it's going to tick me off to look at the scratch marks up and down the leather

Hi,

Reminds me of the time when my cat decided to use the smooth side of my SRP paddle to sharpen his claws

Have fun !

best regards

Russ

Im so glad my son is out of that phase... when he was around that age, he opened the drawer where we have the chords for charging the cell phones and cut each one once with a pair of scissors... asked why.... you got it.... I DONT KNOW!!! ....

Kids do these things.
'I don't know' is the answer I get a lot of the time. Fact is that kids do things just to see what happens, how something feels like if they poke / prod / scratch it. Not out of malice, but out of curiosity. My youngest one colored the grouting between the tiles in the living room with wax crayons once Kids say 'I don't know' because they often have no specific reason for the things they do, other than curiosity.

Did you explain to her up front that she was not to touch your strop?
Whenever it is important to me that my daughters don't touch something, I take the time to sit them down and explain. That usually works. Otherwise they assume that they can poke / prod and handle whatever it is that peaked their curiosity.

I remember when I was a kid I poked a load of holes in the coving that my dad had just put up in our room. We had bunk beds so I was pretty close to the ceiling.

I've no idea why I did it, though I suspect its because the material felt nice on my finger, but my dad was fuming about it. As you would be having spent time and money doing the job I guess..!

I also burnt the carpet with a hairdryer, and my brother and I shredded a load of my sisters nappies to make snow as well, amongst other things! Man, I was trouble when I was younger..!

When I realized I could throw a knife at the ground so that it flipped and stuck, I did it about 100 times in one small area of the linoleum floor of the kitchen (trying to get it to stick 10 times in a row, of course). It made perfect sense in the moment, but damned if I couldn't explain it AT ALL to my mother when she found out!

But she is your daughter. She is your heart and soul.

A strop is just a hunk of leather with no value.

Take a picture and drag it out as a fun story when she is 18.




Kids do stupid $hit sometimes, but that's what makes them kids. When she saw how angry you were, her little heart probably sank all the way to her toes.

She needs a hug from Daddy.

Hi,

Kids just do these things. It is a nature of a small child to get curious. Just to see how items feel or what they can do with it. I'm sure most of us have done something like it as a child. Their mind and logic isn't always the same as we adult have, but that's why we are there. To tell them not to touch items and also to tell them why not to do this and that.

At the age of seven or eight i took the fuel pump away from my grandfathers Morris. It must have been a great idea then. Guess it was the easiest part to take out and i just wanted to see what it is and how it works. Old man wasn't happy at all, but after smoking few cigarettes and -guess- letting his nerves to calm down we dissembled the pump, assembled it and put it back into engine.

Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL

I've heard strops make fine disciplinary tools, now's your chance to try it out.

J/K.

This is one of those defining moments in a parent/child relationship.

It was clearly not an accident, but there was probably less malice involved than there was just a kid doing a kid thing.

So how you respond, and more importantly, how you exhibit grace to forgive are going to be a lesson in a 7 year old's life that will be remembered for a lifetime.

I can't emphasize enough that you show her the grace of forgiveness - but there will still be appropriate ramifications for this action.

But still - who the hell am I to be giving parenting advice anyhow.