Low temperature soldering might not be satisfactory soldering. This is because the solder has to be hot enough to dissolve into the surface of the metals it's joining. There is actually a solution of metals involved in the soldered joint. I don't mean to say that hotter is always better, just that cool soldering might not work well.
There's actually quite of lot of skill involved in keeping a soldering iron safe on a bench. It helps to be tall, too!
I am fairly tall, with long arms, yet I have often had to lift a soldering iron quite high in order to free it from twists in its own power cable. Could I have done this when I was half my present height? I'm not sure.
Owing to twists in the heavy power cords, soldering irons can move themselves. Consequences of not knowing where your iron has got to can include burns as well as fires.
When you get a really good circuit, ask your dad to solder it!
PS
you can probably make your own solder ribbon by putting ordinary solder on some flat steel suface and spreading it out along its length with a shape like the back of a spoon. Notice that any actual spoon will now be poisonously contaminated with lead!
I wonder if a butane lighter would produce a cleaner flame than a match?
