Junior wrenching 101

[Can Can]

Lately, my youngest daughter, Vanessa, has taken a lot of interest in my tools. I'll be in the garage having a cigar and she'll wander in and play with my socket set and screwdrivers and wrenches. Well, today she wanted to actually put the tools to use, so I told her to try and take the front plate off of the K5. After about 7 trips back and forth from the tool bench with various tools that wouldn't do the job, she finally came back with a small screwdriver and set about spinning out the screws that hold the front plate on. She took the job very seriously, and I just had to take a pic:

 

[TSGB]

Young and impressionable. Good job though, before too long, you can trick her into doing a gear swap!

 

[3 on the tree]

Too Cool. When my oldest son was bout her age, he "helped" me. I was putting headers on a 70 Mustang, and he kept bugging me to help. I told him to fix the shifter. By the time I had the mufflers bolted to the headers, he had the console trim plate off, and was looking for a wrench to unbolt the shifter!

 

[justhorsinaround]

Tommy blew my mind here a while back when he picked up and knew how to use a rattle wrench. Little snot. He's four by the way.

 

[CustomChevy]

is that your real plate canmore? or is alberta one of the only need a rear plate provances?


if its real, thats an awesome vanity plate score.

 

[divorced]

That's a cool pic. Kids ROCK!

 

[cbbr]

Young and impressionable. Good job though, before too long, you can trick her into doing a gear swap!

Hey, lets go spend some quality time. You fix the Blazer and I'll drink white russians and smoke.

Seriously, it is great when the kids take an interest in your hobbies and want to spend time helping.

 

[Inu-Hanyou1776]

Seriously, it is great when the kids take an interest in your hobbies and want to spend time helping.

It was helping dad out with the normal maintenance on his '79 Toyota Celica when I was 4-5 years old that got me into all things automotive.

This is not it by the way, I don't have any photos of it and we took it to the scrapyard a long time ago, with the odometer showing 330,000+ miles I might add. Only difference between this one and the one my dad had is that dad's was gray and had different wheels.

 

[XHitman396]

CAUTION: I only tell you this from the stories my parents told of me when i found out tools are cool. first, the light-switch covers go. next are the towel racks and dismantling of bicycle parts and the like, followed by door-knobs, work-benches and anything 4 feet to the ground or lower.. just a fair warning.. cool pic..

 

[MTBLAZER89]

Yeah it's cool except when they start taking everything apart. My oldest boy was playing in his room once very quietly. When I went in to check on him he had taken his bed almost completely apart Funny stuff. My boys 7 and almost 3 both are into tools. They both know lefty loosy and righty tighty which is more than I can say for many adults I work with

 

[darkshadow]

or a few folx on here

i was always "fixing" stuff as a kid, be glad she can be entertained by something that isent hooked up to the TV

 

[MTBLAZER89]

Here is my oldest "fixin" his power wheel

 

[surpip]

that is awsome
i cant wait to have me a boy i can corrupt
have you seen the website for hooking up powerwheels?
where the boy is drifting in the corvette
way awsome

 

[Leper]

My son wanted to help me work on my Duster on an engine swap. Itold him to take everything off of the front of the motor. 6 months later I told him to put it all back on........... He did it. I was surprised, to say the least. He was 10.

 

[MattK]

nice beadlocks on the power wheels.

 

[ProJunkRacing]

that is awsome
i cant wait to have me a boy i can corrupt

i like when i get married that is my thought too lol

 

[tarussell]

That is what life is about ! Quality time with the family.
Tom

 

[stallion85]

That is way cool, the other day my 4 year old helped me re install my front axle. He would crank on the jack handle while I matched up the spring pins in the perches I was so proud!