Suffer not the children

[Swordarm4]

Do you guys teach your kids ? This is my daughter she's about to turn 10, yeah it's tuff to to keep their attention, but I try. ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/69469703@N03/6656935323 ) I'd love to hear or see some feed back.

[Long Shot]

Good on ya, Swordarm

Wife and I are raising a grand daughter going on 11. I've taken her camping, fishing and hunting since day 1. She loves to play survivor and we spend a good deal of time identifying wild food and medicinal plants. Turning 11 in april and has her eye on a sweet little single .22 in pink.

[MustangGal]

I'm impressed. The Man Cub takes karate two days a week. He is seven and this spring we will be working on shooting more - he is just now growing into the Cricket. The Man is a firearms instructor, so it will be all about safety and accuracy.

[Swordarm4]

Yeah mines got the pink cricket, and wanting a 243 for deer hunting( I took her with me all this year just to teach her patience , next year I'll let her shoot. I've found if I can throw some pink in there some how, she wants to do it. I'm far from an instructor , but I know my share of hand to hand , and I've been teaching her things since she was 7. Basically just momentum and how to use it against others, with a few gouges and bone breaks mixed in.

[WiseOwl]

My son is 4 and he LOVES to build lil forts and wrestle. He is a lil tough guy but is still his mommas boy.

He gets to go on his first camping trip this spring with just me and him. Cant wait til he's 6 and we can join the scouts. Then it will be a matter of time until he is going backpacking with me.

At age 2 he hiked 4 miles (was carried for 1) and this summer he will be seeing a lot more waterfalls with us on day trips. The 6 month old can now be carried in moms carrier pouch. Too be honest, I cant wait til my boys are 9+, then the real training will begin.

[miked2345]

Cant wait til he's 6 and we can join the scouts. Then it will be a matter of time until he is going backpacking with me.

You can't go wrong with the scouts... My son joined at 6, became an Eagle Scout at 14. He learned ALOT of skills along the way.

[rockriver]

sword and others!
great subject. you guys and lady! are doing great. wish i had done more.
and sword.
i like the pix.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

I've done several posts with youth deer season. Boy is a man now and girl aint to far behind him. I taught them to fish, hunt, fight, woodsmanship, competitivley shoot etc.
This is something we enjoyed as they came up

http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/wildlifeexpo/wildlifeexpo.htm

it exposes them without making them feel outside the normal xbox peer pressure teen syndrome. 243 is an awesome gun for them

[trkarl]

One thing a prepper friend of mine does is teach his kids all about economics. His daughter wanted some chickens so they got 4. They are solely his daughter's responsibility. She does the work and has to buy all the feed. He then buys the eggs for $3.25 per dozen. She then gets to keep the profits. During the summer he said they get average around 3-4 eggs per day. Now that it's winter it is usually 1-2. They also get to invest their money by buying silver coins from him at spot. Then he will buy them back at spot when they want to sell. They also do chores for an allowance so they know what it is like to earn instead of get given.

[Grinnan Barrett]

We have to be careful with kids since we can make survival like some people make baseball to them. I see kids burn out on anything that is force fed to them. I was raised in a survival oriented family but they never preached about it and it was more about who we were than this is what we have to be. Kids will do what we do not what we say. When I was about 6 years old my mother had been gone for over two years and it was just my dad and my extended family. We were broke due to my mom's illness and didn't even have a car. My dad had cashed his check from work and they bank gave him too much money back. He counted the money when he got home and got up from the table and had me walk with him the five miles back to town to return the money to the bank and then walk back home. I will never forget what my DAD did that day. It wasn't what he said it was what he did. I value that lesson more than anything else I can remember from my parents.

Kids have a short attention span. It is okay. A child with a high IQ will usually have a very short attention span. Gifted kids as they are called now have a hard time in normal school settings. we have to be careful not to try and cram to much into them at one time. Do things they like to do and include things related to survival while you do it. After they read something ask them about it and what they think and really mean that you want to know. After a child reaches 13 you have little or no impact on who they are going to be. That is the truth. Their peer group will have the most impact on them after 13. As someone told me once "WE can only choose how we fail when it comes to raising our children." GOD Bless you and enjoy your kids while you can. GB