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Aug 30, 2023 · Do you want to take kids hunting, but not sure when or how to start? Here are three ways to prepare a child for hunting and lessons they can learn.
- Gun Safety. Our precious Second Amendment guarantees that there are firearms everywhere in our society. Sooner or later your children will come in contact with them.
- I Can Do It Myself. One of the most important things an adult can do for a child is to teach them how to do things with the goal of the child soon being able to do it themselves.
- Be Responsible For Your Actions Think about it. When hunting you’re handling a dangerous weapon. If lucky, you kill an animal, or animals. You respect other hunters, and you leave the woods as clean and pristine as you found them.
- Everything You Need To Know About Life. You can learn everything you need to know about success in life in the hunting fields. Discipline, patience, endurance, learning to live with disappointment and failure, hunting helps develop life skills that will help make well-rounded adults out of your kids.
- Teach Them to Provide Meat for the Table. Handing a kid a Happy Meal or a plate of pre-made boneless chicken wings fresh out of the oven gives them an unrealistic perspective of where food comes from.
- Teach Them the Skill of Decision-Making. From the moment a bow or firearm is uncased, every hunting outing involves dozens of decisions. And every decision has outcomes or consequences.
- Teach Them to Address Challenges. Challenges cause us to think harder and deeper. They cause us to assess situations and project potential outcomes based on given circumstances.
- Get Them Away from Video Games. Excessive video gaming numbs you to the real world. It seems those who are great at gaming are taught that things come fairly easily.
Jun 25, 2022 · All kids should get the chance to become a hunter, even if they're not cut out for it. That's why introducing them to hunting is important.
- Beka Garris
Sep 14, 2017 · Children learn what we teach them and what greater lesson than to impart the knowledge of a sport they can embrace for the rest of their lives? Although adults must help youngsters with basic hunting, shooting, and safety skills, the motivation begins long before they pick up a rifle or bow.
- Joe Byers
Dec 10, 2023 · We asked real parents who hunt share the top hunting lessons they taught their kids on gun safety, aim, and how to be successful.
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Jun 10, 2011 · While there is much we can teach our kids about hunting, fishing, conservation and the environment, more often than not they can teach us, too. If we slow down and look at the world through the eyes of a child, we'll often rediscover what drew us to this passion in the first place.
