Thread: Teaching Kids To Shoot

I am enjoying shooting with my 7 year old son.
I try to make it as fun as possible for him and offer lots of encouragement and praise. We shoot reactive targets, rather than paper and make games and challenges for each other. He is getting deadly out to 65m on anything smaller than a tennis ball.
He does not like the noise from centerfires at all so I'm very conscious of who's shooting or about to. I tend to do my stuff mid week and leave the weekends free for plinking with him.
We have always been very careful about the kids ears, the suppressor is always used and if anyone else is shooting our kids have a pair of the wee peltors each.
I'm continuously reaffirming range and firearm etiquette with him to form good habits.
I'm also careful how long we go for and knock off at the first sign of him having had enough. Just like with fishing, an ice-cream on the way home is pretty mandatory.