Re: Giving kids experiences

Posted by Grub on July 10, 2007 at 06:39:37 from (71.193.244.151):

In Reply to: Re: Giving kids experiences posted by iowa_tire_guy on July 10, 2007 at 05:28:17:

ITG,
I feel your pain, having lost a couple friends in middle school and high school to firearm accidents.
How do you find that balance? We can teach skills but you can't teach judgement. My 14 yr old and I did a big woodworking project for Christmas and I taught him about tools and safety. We all teach how to do something correctly, but I also focus on "what can go wrong" because we all have done something by the book and it still goes haywire. This spring while I was on a trip he told me about using the tablesaw and chopsaw on his own and my heart was beating a mile a minute because of my fear, but he did everything right.
Good judgement comes from experience (and often bad ones)and youth do not have the depth of experiences to make good judgements. I say that as a very general statement about adolescents as a group only to make a point supporting what everyone has said thus far; give your kids lots of supervised experiences, let them fail and be honest about the mistakes you make. (Last year I almost flipped a backhoe, really scared me and I told my kids about it and what I was thinking that got me that close to tragedy)
Keep up the good work guys!!

Grub

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