David (the author) teaching at his own workshop back in 2020 If you tell a parent (or worse, a grandparent) that you're taking a six-year-old to a blacksmith's shop to beat glowing-hot iron with a hammer, you'll probably get one of two reactions: either they look at you like you just suggested juggling chainsaws and dancing with venomous snakes, or they give you that slow blink like a Michigan deer in headlights... But they might be surprised to find that such an idea is NOT