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Gloat (kinda)...

Doug

>While trying (and trying) to potty train my two year old, she grabbed my copy of the latest LN catalog and proceeded to read it herself. While I still don't have a potty trained youngster, but I'll bet she's one of the few two year olds in the country who could point out rabbet planes, block planes, scraper planes, saws, and spokeshaves.

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I'm sure she'll get the...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Hang of it. Hand planing that is... not potty training. Just kiddin, the best of luck! Scott thinking it's a LOT less messy to potty train a girl instead of a boy, someting like a firehose getting free from your hands;).

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Jim in Burlington Ont.

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Jim in Burlington Ontario

>Warning starting them too young they get burnt out. The seven year old roll's his eye's into his head and say's tools tools tools' that's all you ever want to look at I'm sick of them. You have to tell him(lie a little) that the store has toys's inside to get him to go in anymore.

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Danger Will Robinson!

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Just make sure you lock up the tools you're especially fond of...she sounds like she may be out in the shop making things soon, and you'll have to remember that raising her is more important than keeping tools.

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