Roughly 20 years ago my son was in BSA and got to carry a "totin" chip. It was a card certifying he had passed a knife/axe safety class. Idea was if an adult saw a kid missuse a knife or axe,the adult tore off a corner of the card. When the card had no corners left it was confiscated and the kid had to re-take the safety class. While he was at home one day he began playing with a bread knife and broke the blade. I asked him for his TC, confirmed the procedure for unsafe use of a knife, and tore a corner off the TC. He couldn't have been more shaken if I had slapped him. Never saw him misuse a blade again.
We don't do it that way in Canada, JPickett, though I wish we did. Cub Scouts don't get tokens. Many groups, including ours, teach them to use tools like knives and saws, but they have to wait until they are Scouts (11 yo) and earn their permits to be able to carry and use them unsupervised. They are permitted to have a folding knife in their survival kits if their Pack and parents say it's ok.
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