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<blockquote data-quote="Boll Weevil" data-source="post: 3482319" data-attributes="member: 10006"><p>I took my 8 year old niece Saturday...pink mittens and all. We walked off down the hill at 1230 in the afternoon and "hunted" for only as long as she wanted to. </p><p></p><p>One key I've found for younglings in to keep it a learning experience and don't make it a grueling exercise. She had the binoculars and was on grunt tube duty. We whittled toohpicks, snuck through an area IN the creek to remain un (or at least less) detected, and changed locations every 15 minutes or so. Wood peckers, mushrooms on a dead log, investigating a scrape, cracking open acorns, tree identification, and whispering about the whats and whys of deer behavior. My goal for her 1st and foremost is in learning to love the outdoors; the whole time she was like a sponge. Lord knows if we hunters had to shoot something (or even SEE something) every time out we'd have quit a looooooong time ago. When we got back to the house she jabbered on incessantly about how much she enjoying walking in the creek, and brought 3 or 4 long sticks back to make toothpicks for everyone.</p><p></p><p>Next time we go we'll sit a little longer, maybe a little colder (morning or evening), in a box blind...which are all new experiences altogether. That's how I've been able to keep it interesting for little people over the years. They'll ease into the discipline and rigor of hunting on their own clock but in the meantime keep it fun and keep them engaged in the outdoors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boll Weevil, post: 3482319, member: 10006"] I took my 8 year old niece Saturday...pink mittens and all. We walked off down the hill at 1230 in the afternoon and "hunted" for only as long as she wanted to. One key I've found for younglings in to keep it a learning experience and don't make it a grueling exercise. She had the binoculars and was on grunt tube duty. We whittled toohpicks, snuck through an area IN the creek to remain un (or at least less) detected, and changed locations every 15 minutes or so. Wood peckers, mushrooms on a dead log, investigating a scrape, cracking open acorns, tree identification, and whispering about the whats and whys of deer behavior. My goal for her 1st and foremost is in learning to love the outdoors; the whole time she was like a sponge. Lord knows if we hunters had to shoot something (or even SEE something) every time out we'd have quit a looooooong time ago. When we got back to the house she jabbered on incessantly about how much she enjoying walking in the creek, and brought 3 or 4 long sticks back to make toothpicks for everyone. Next time we go we'll sit a little longer, maybe a little colder (morning or evening), in a box blind...which are all new experiences altogether. That's how I've been able to keep it interesting for little people over the years. They'll ease into the discipline and rigor of hunting on their own clock but in the meantime keep it fun and keep them engaged in the outdoors. [/QUOTE]
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