I need to clarify something: Our Cub Pack does use knives. We teach them to use use knives. We just don't let them carry or use them unsupervised. They're not outlawed and we don't make the rules for home. Mom or dad can bring it to the meetings and events when we'll be using them and a leader can hold it for them when not in use, but they can use their own knife when we do knife work.

A limitation, yes, but heck, it's only a few hours a month and it helps us keep everyone safer without risking outrage (and possibly worse) from the non-knife friendly parents. (Some of them even have trouble with us letting them freely roam a copse of trees behind our campsite.) As Ratbert says: