Brother boo,
Respectfully, why did you wait until your son was 15 years old? Certain male skills should be role modeled and caught at an early age. I was blessed to watch in fasciation and in envy as my father shaved with a "brass colored Gillette DE razor with a 'ball' on the end of the handle." (It may have been a Gillette Good Will razor from the early 1930's, but who knows?) I was maybe 5 years old and it was during the early years of WW2. I could hardly wait until it was my time to do it.
Similar skills that could and should be taught to children and caught at an early age are the care and maintenance of one's shoes, and the care and maintenance of one's teeth.
An orientation to "the how to" of all three of these activities (shaving, shoes, and teeth) can be handled by an elementary school age child and potentially will pay handsome dividends in adulthood. But the older the child is before starting this line of education, and example, the more difficult for the seed to germinate and take root.
Most young children like parental guidance for awhile, but teenagers much less so. It will be normal for your son to shave with the hardware that he sees his peers are using, at least initially.
Adolescence is the most challenging time in a boy's life. Remember our own experiences during adolescence? [Shudder]
Good luck and best wishes.
Respectfully, why did you wait until your son was 15 years old? Certain male skills should be role modeled and caught at an early age. I was blessed to watch in fasciation and in envy as my father shaved with a "brass colored Gillette DE razor with a 'ball' on the end of the handle." (It may have been a Gillette Good Will razor from the early 1930's, but who knows?) I was maybe 5 years old and it was during the early years of WW2. I could hardly wait until it was my time to do it.
Similar skills that could and should be taught to children and caught at an early age are the care and maintenance of one's shoes, and the care and maintenance of one's teeth.
An orientation to "the how to" of all three of these activities (shaving, shoes, and teeth) can be handled by an elementary school age child and potentially will pay handsome dividends in adulthood. But the older the child is before starting this line of education, and example, the more difficult for the seed to germinate and take root.
Most young children like parental guidance for awhile, but teenagers much less so. It will be normal for your son to shave with the hardware that he sees his peers are using, at least initially.
Adolescence is the most challenging time in a boy's life. Remember our own experiences during adolescence? [Shudder]
Good luck and best wishes.
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