 You don't let boys get into too much danger. You can present them with a potato peeler, and you know at some point in time they'll be sword fighting with it or something, and one of them is going to skin a finger. Not the end of the world. If you allow them to mess with a deep fryer with hot oil, someone's going to the ER with third-degree burns. You have to understand. Here's a true statement. I didn't come up with this, but it's true.