Houndoc
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- Location
- Grantsville
I think the activity can be almost anything where there is a challenge. My kids and sometimes I have been lost hunting, been tired, wet, grumpy but we did it anyway. Backpacking, same thing. Even fishing, we have been in tough spots on the river and had to figure things out. Heck, my year old and I had to retrieve the body of a drowned fisherman one time. When we were crawling heavily, my boys were right there helping do trail fixes to get through the trail.
My older kids got far more of this than my younger ones. I am getting soft, and that has impacted them. I need to provide tough things for them to accomplish. I think Gravy is one of the best at having his kids learn by doing. Mesha is another one.
Kids need to be challenged, and with an activity the care enough about to want to push through the hard times. My kids have trained horses (with a broken bone or two to show), ran cross country etc.
All are activities they picked because they wanted to do it, which helped with the motivation to see it through the hard times. Don't think it is very likely to work if we decide for them what to do (they exception being group activities like Trek.)