Re: What Should You? Have You? Will You? Pass Along...
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Silver Tabby! I wish kids had grown up in your neighborhood. What got you interested in forensics?
Nom, Natural History is good stuff. If you take kids out and get them to notice little things and then explain it to them, fascination and appreciation sets in stone.
Teaching first aid and how to handle an emergency are priceless skills, Twink, I agree with you that all kids should have first aid and survival education.
Eccles, my grandmother inspired us to love books from an early age, not just reading but to love books as a thing - the feel, aroma, print, cover, process of writing, etc. Her books were her pearls.
OGF, you read my mind on the woodwork as I came back here to talk about it. Both you an Tarantula are wise and fortunate to pass on those skills and interests. My dad has a full woodworking shop and passed his mastery on to his grandsons who can do basic but beautiful work with knowledge and tips you can't always get from a book or YouTube.
Spitfire, I respectfully disagree with you on this
. While some things just won't take with kids (my son has no interest in flying in a family of pilots), but if you approach "a discovery" (to them) with wonder and excitement, and treat what you show them like it's a treasure and treasured secret, it's pretty easy to get them excited - or at least remember it forever. Do this enough times, and they start taking on discoveries on their own. Teaching and having two of my own taught me this.
Carol, better to get them excited about floating than not!
What else? Electrical projects, photography, gardening, baking, jewelry making? There is so much talent here