Just wondering how many other guys out there shave with their (younger) sons. It has become a bit of a ritual on Saturdays with my 3 year old where after him and I each shower we get together to "shave". Although I've just started on the DE journey one of the things I've enjoyed most is passing on the information I'm learning to him. He's gotten to the point where he pretty much knows each step I do and I can ask him "What do we do next?" and he'll tell me. He does it all right to applying lather, rinsing, and shaving with his toy razor to putting on after shave then running to his mom and asking her to feel his face lol. As he gets older I know I'll lose times like this with him and I hope that he will look back on them as fondly as I do/will when he gets old enough to really start shaving himself.
Shaving with your son
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it's the things like this that make me hope for my own son in the next few years. 
Dude, I'm getting a little misty over here just thinking about it. I have a 6 month old boy and I can't wait to do things like this with him. Thanks for posting this.
WOW! My 3 year old LOVES to shave with daddy! I , whip up a lather for us and after I shave, I take the blade out of my merkur 23c and he "shaves" I cherish times like this with him. He's growing up way to fast and he has a little brother that is 8 weeks old. I hope he will want to spend time with daddy doing the same things. I hope they are able to remember such things fondly as they grow up. Now, I can't wait to teach then to hunt, fish and shoot!
I hate that world, but it's really cute 
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My 2 YO son loves to pretend shaving. I've let him use my brushes in the tub to play with before (hey, I've seen Johnson's Baby Shampoo recommended on here to clean your brushes...saves me the work).
My wife bought him a Thomas shaving kit. He loves to lather up the dog's face with bubble bath and pretend to shave him. The dog just loves to eat soap.
I've NEVER let him play with one of my unloaded real razors. He won't know if there is a blade in or not and if he plays with it once, he may think he can again. I keep them well out of his reach always.
My wife bought him a Thomas shaving kit. He loves to lather up the dog's face with bubble bath and pretend to shave him. The dog just loves to eat soap.
I've NEVER let him play with one of my unloaded real razors. He won't know if there is a blade in or not and if he plays with it once, he may think he can again. I keep them well out of his reach always.
I'm gonna have to get him one of those! I wonder if Target has them?
That's exactly where my wife bought it. Was about $9-10 I think but I don't care...that's a cool toy. She bought it more to impress me I think.
Too bad the razor looks like a Sensor Excel, but it could be worse I guess!
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The one my son looks almost exactly like that except it doesn't have thomas the train on it.
My son just got 8 and we are shaving together in weekends for years now; he has his own safety razor (unloaded 
) and is very able now to make his own lather. It is not just sons btw; my 4 year old daughter insists on having a shave of her own now and then....She is good at it so maybe she can teach her future husband one day how to shave properly....
) and is very able now to make his own lather. It is not just sons btw; my 4 year old daughter insists on having a shave of her own now and then....She is good at it so maybe she can teach her future husband one day how to shave properly....
Yup, I do that with my 3 year old too... I lather him up in the bath, and he 'shaves' it all off with a de-bladed razor. I get a can off cheap "senitive" canned foam for him to use. Fun stuff!
Yes, when my son was 3 to 8 we would shave together on weekends and he had an older injector (also unloaded). It is a nice feeling and sense of accomplishment to have your son emulate you; its proof that the nut does not fall far from the tree.
Now he is a teenager and I try to teach him more realistically with a DE, but his response is I got it dad! Ahh the days of knowing it all
For those of teenage parents, do not get discouraged:
Now he is a teenager and I try to teach him more realistically with a DE, but his response is I got it dad! Ahh the days of knowing it all
For those of teenage parents, do not get discouraged:
good for you................
I do from time to time and your moving post is a reminder to do so more often. Thanks for that...
Mine is 19 years old now. He has a Shick DE and a Gillette DE which he got from my father (now 80+). I bought him some new DE blades recently. He much prefers them over the Fusion jokesters that Gillette sent him for free. We never played shaving together. He has seen me shave with damn near everything, from a Braun classic electric foil razor, to the Sensor Excel, and now back to the straights and DEs that I used when I was in my 20s.
If you are lucky, you and your son will be duking it out in the front yard when he reaches about 16 or so. You won't be worried about how he shaves.
He had Thomas the Tank Engine toys in the bath tub when he was three. The trains all had wreaks and big explosions. Boom. Splash. Crash. That's that Y chromosome for you.
If you are lucky, you and your son will be duking it out in the front yard when he reaches about 16 or so. You won't be worried about how he shaves.
He had Thomas the Tank Engine toys in the bath tub when he was three. The trains all had wreaks and big explosions. Boom. Splash. Crash. That's that Y chromosome for you.
My son is 4, and when I shower him he'll ask me to whip up a bowl of lather and brush it on his face.
This coming summer, I hope to teach my father how to shave properly.
I have a 3 year old boy as well as a 1 year old girl. Love putting lather on both of them as they giggle from the brush tickling their face. Kids giggles are music to a parents ears.
I'm a straight shaver, so I'm not sure I'd get him a toy shaver. Don't want him to think it's okay to use daddy's straight!!! Comments on the previous sentence?
I'm a straight shaver, so I'm not sure I'd get him a toy shaver. Don't want him to think it's okay to use daddy's straight!!! Comments on the previous sentence?
I have posted several times about shaving with my 14 and 16 year old.
But of course, it's hard to keep them interested in their weekly "bum fluff" shave. It may changed once they have to shave everyday.
They both sneak into the bathroom and use the electric . It's a rechargeable and I've hidden the power cord so they might be back to DE soon.
Maybe I might start them on a straight. Surely a "macho" method like that will get them interested.
But like everything with teenagers these days it's all about doing things quickly and instantly
But of course, it's hard to keep them interested in their weekly "bum fluff" shave. It may changed once they have to shave everyday.
They both sneak into the bathroom and use the electric . It's a rechargeable and I've hidden the power cord so they might be back to DE soon.
Maybe I might start them on a straight. Surely a "macho" method like that will get them interested.
But like everything with teenagers these days it's all about doing things quickly and instantly
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