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Unfortunately most people don't small game hunt. They are missing alot of good times. We do small game hunt but I will admit chasing whitetails takes precedence.
Questions about taking kids out
- Thread starter Redhunter1012
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I'm a new parent and It'll be a while before I get to this point... But I just don't understand this whole concept of bringing a bag full of Gameboys and iPads and other distractions to the woods. Am I off base to say that maybe if they can't stay entertained without distractions, maybe they're too young to be deer hunting? Sure if you want to take them, take them. But if they get bored go home. It just seems like giving them an iPad is nothing more than a selfish remedy to keep US out in the field. What ever happened to small game hunting? What ever happened to it being okay when kids are bored? Why do we always have to be shoving some electronic device in their face? I'm sure I sound like an old fart and/or a naive dipshit... But answer this for me... Are we doing our kids any favors with this practice? What are we teaching? This is an honest question.
I get it. I ask myself all these same questions. But it's just a different time nowadays. Im gonna pack snacks, his tablet, my phone will be charged. We'll see how it goes
Kinda on the same page, although I don't have any kids of that age to take hunting. Back when I first got my hunting license at age 12 I wanted to hunt. No distractions needed[emoji16].
I’m pretty much with you on this. Sorta like that song by Waylon Jennings is it really how Hank done it.
But replace Hank with Dad and you as a kid hunting. There were no games. no phones no tablets. Etc..
Now fast forward till now.we all talk about how the world is changing etc etc.. Yet we’re changing the core things ways we were taught to make things more comfortable for kids. Games,tablets,iPhones..
Hunting isn’t about instant gratification. The woods always have a story to tell. From showing different trees types but bearing or not. How a ravine got there . The different bird sounds, Different animals Teaching them to identify those sounds to type of bird,animal.
I can go along with bring food keep warm. The games tho. Not for me. Be there because you want to be there. I’ve took a lot of kids hunting. First year expect nothing. 30 minute hunts.
Second year expect a little more. And so on depending on their age. They fall asleep. I wake them up and ask them why they didn’t just shoot that big buck that came by. They start being loud fiddling with sticks I ask them if they want to do some jumping jacks.. Agin this is depending on age. Just saying as years go buy.. You have to expect more.
The part about bringing games and what not. I simply question everyone saying it’s about them not the parent. To me it’s about the parent wanting the kid to stay and see a deer get a shot. Instant gratification. Play a game while I watch for you. That’s just my opinion. Reguardless I guess anyway you can get a kid in the woods. I support it. Yet Is it really how your daddy taught you?
I believe this makes for a great debate/not argument. Either way a kid is in the woods.. Good stuff.
we have a thread booming right now...from adults using electronics to bring us along hunting. If I gotta pack an extra electronic to get my kids hooked, I see it as a small price to pay. I know I use mine while I’m out. It’s fun to share the hunts with others. What else are they gonna do? Sit on the couch and play it?
I get that, but is it really the same? Posting to TOO now and again is like sending a txt to a buddy... It takes only a minute or two. Pulling out a phone and doing that once an hour or two is not the same as sitting there with your face in a game or YouTube, while dad does all the watching for critters.
I'm not trying to say one's right or wrong because ultimately I want to see kids outside with their family. I just question whether we're doing what's best for the kid. And I don't know the answer to that.
It’s my job to entertain them while out. My oldest, 13, will text her friends pics of us goofing around. My boys don’t much play on them as much. I keep them pretty interested, some times I just don’t feel like it, that’s when they get them. We spend most of our time talking though. I guess my understanding of this was not the intent of them spending the entire time on it. I see what you’re saying now. I don’t agree with them going out to sit on the electronic, they can stay in the couch if that’s what they want to do.
Bingo... The woods are a place to disconnect.. Its a big book,a never ending book,teaching them how to read it is the funest part. Heck I can’t say I’m not guilty of looking at my phone reading etc.. Really I remember the days before cell phones and trail cameras. Still did all day sits, Sorta weird with all this new technology, looking back tho.. It was the woods that kept me in the woods.
Who knows 15 years from now people may be in their tree stands playing call of duty with their other buddies in the woods on some new type gadgets...
I don’t know if you do take electronics out with the kids maybe make them identify 4 different trees 4 different squirrels 4 different birds etc before they even turn on the electronics. Maybe in the course of that conversations good jobs come up and they don’t turn it on. Make little bets with a time limit to... Etc Or the I spy game ..