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Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 12:54 AM
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kagomez85
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Just curious what do yall do to occupy the kiddos at the lease during the day and hunting hours if they dont go to the stand. I have a 13 year old and 4 year old both girls both seem to lose interest pretty quick. May be a stupid question just looking for new ideas. I remember when i was kid i was content just exploring around and getting into stuff i shouldn't, my girls seem to be a little different.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 01:29 AM
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camera, the birds, squirrels
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 01:47 AM
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satellite TV helps
but most of the time mine are riding around on the Polaris or making smores
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 02:05 AM
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If there is a pond, put a fishing pole in their hands.
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Re: Kids at the lease
[Re: kagomez85]
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10/19/14 02:08 AM
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Fishing, shooting, playing with rocks, climbing trees, take a nap, or just give them a bungee cord and an arrow with no tip and they will fight dragons and critters...at least that's what my girl does
iPad or DVD player goes in the stand to pass the time when rifle season gets here.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 02:20 AM
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KG68
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We have family land that we camp and hunt on and have a huge sand pile covered and chain link fenced with lights. We built it for our kids years ago and now it's a big hit with the grandkids.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 02:22 AM
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To this day I can distinctly remember that the hours between 10 and 3 took about a week to go by when I was a kid. The men usually were napping. We played and fished at the pond/river mostly. I just loved hunting so much I couldn't wait for each hunt...
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 02:24 AM
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Fishing, shooting, playing with rocks, climbing trees, take a nap, or just give them a bungee cord and an arrow with no tip and they will fight dragons and critters...at least that's what my girl does
iPad or DVD player goes in the stand to pass the time when rifle season gets here. This plus look for arrowheads.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 02:41 AM
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The grandkids bring board games and cards, that's enough to keep them busy inside. Outside they terrorize everything that moves. We also have a "range" set up for BB guns that keeps them going.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 03:16 AM
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cool idea's. i gotta learn ta read, thought it read whin kids are in stand
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 05:43 AM
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txshntr
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Fishing, shooting, playing with rocks, climbing trees, take a nap, or just give them a bungee cord and an arrow with no tip and they will fight dragons and critters...at least that's what my girl does
iPad or DVD player goes in the stand to pass the time when rifle season gets here. This plus look for arrowheads. We have yet to find one in 20 years on the place, so we walk the old creek bed to find fossils
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 06:00 AM
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To this day I can distinctly remember that the hours between 10 and 3 took about a week to go by when I was a kid. The men usually were napping. We played and fished at the pond/river mostly. I just loved hunting so much I couldn't wait for each hunt... I can totally relate. My time was, while the Men were napping, spent with a fly rod and a popping bug on the shores of Toledo Bend or Sam Rayburn...Many bass were caught...They were released...In peanut oil.
Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it. Don't text and drive.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 02:58 PM
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blackcoal
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^^^ Wow, someone had rich parents to own fly rods in east Texas.
^^^^^ Found many fossils? Don't tell anyone, land will be taken over for new dino park.
Just joshing you fellows, good memories for all.
The Greatest Enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.--Stephen Hawking
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 03:22 PM
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There's a verified Indian camp on our place. The kids LOVE hunting for arrowheads....and the adults make SURE there are just enough arrowheads found to keep the kids interested. Some call it "seeding." Arrowheads are cheap on E-Bay. We've been doing this for a few generations and by the time the "kids" are old enough to either be told or figure out the truth they no longer need occupying and are more than willing to eventually deploy the same tactic on their own kids or nieces and nephews. We let the kids go empty-handed sometimes to keep it challenging. Sometimes they surprise us and find an "actual" arrowhead after a good rain.
"I have no idea what WW-III will be fought with, but WW-IV will be fought with sticks and stones." A. Einstein
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 03:45 PM
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Kids at camp? Sounds like a free source of manual labor to me. Brush clearing, rock piling, feeder filling, food plot plowing and planting. Work 'em like a rented mule so they'll sleep good at night.
LOL....just kidding.
Mike Buda, Tx Hunt near Freer
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/19/14 07:41 PM
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There's a verified Indian camp on our place. The kids LOVE hunting for arrowheads....and the adults make SURE there are just enough arrowheads found to keep the kids interested. Some call it "seeding." Arrowheads are cheap on E-Bay. We've been doing this for a few generations and by the time the "kids" are old enough to either be told or figure out the truth they no longer need occupying and are more than willing to eventually deploy the same tactic on their own kids or nieces and nephews. We let the kids go empty-handed sometimes to keep it challenging. Sometimes they surprise us and find an "actual" arrowhead after a good rain. we did same with tooth fairy with our kids. Ya'll know story. whin woke up from me nap, grandson standing thar with a dallor, said here's for some dentures.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/20/14 02:45 PM
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I'll hunt all day....but my kids are all grown now so they grew up with it...
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/20/14 03:04 PM
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I have an old school bus that we fixed up for the kids to have a hang out. My 15 year old daughter sits on her phone all day most of the time anyway. If her friends come up they hang out in the bus. One will be in the front of the bus and the other at the back and they are still texting each other. lol... My boy has a spot in the creek that his is digging for cold in. I'm not going to tell him there is no gold there. he might find some.
Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/20/14 03:36 PM
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I'll make a confession here: my girls like the outdoors and being at the farm now, but are just now getting into hunting (they are 18 and 20 now). But they were always well behaved. When friends bring their younger kids to the farm, it often seems like a beating to me. They seem to just run wild and stay constantly underfoot. They don't entertain themselves by exploring, etc. like we did and seem to require their parents to be entertaining them. Constantly butting into grownup conversations. I grew up in an age where kids respected their elders and were mostly "seen and not heard". That seems to be a thing of the past now.....
Maybe I'm just an old codger now IDK.
Last edited by Nogalus Prairie; 10/20/14 03:37 PM.
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/20/14 04:10 PM
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guess a lot is how & were ya grew up. good stuff here
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Re: Kids at the lease
[Re: 1860.colt]
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10/20/14 04:21 PM
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KG68
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Age is the key here. Sure some 7 and up kids are able to entertain themselves but the younger 3, 4, 5, and 6 year olds want to go along too and have to be occupied as well. That is where granny and grandad come in to play.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/20/14 04:35 PM
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I get it with the young ones. I am talking about 10-16 year olds. Just a little while back, a buddy and his 13 year old rode down with me to hog hunt-couldn't even have a conversation riding down for the kid constantly interrupting from the back seat talking about crap that's on a 13 year old's brain. Rude. No concept of manners. Dad didn't even attempt to correct him. Crazy....
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I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/20/14 04:58 PM
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Just curious what do yall do to occupy the kiddos at the lease during the day and hunting hours if they dont go to the stand. I have a 13 year old and 4 year old both girls both seem to lose interest pretty quick. May be a stupid question just looking for new ideas. I remember when i was kid i was content just exploring around and getting into stuff i shouldn't, my girls seem to be a little different. Why don't you leave them at home?
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/20/14 08:16 PM
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Just curious what do yall do to occupy the kiddos at the lease during the day and hunting hours if they dont go to the stand. I have a 13 year old and 4 year old both girls both seem to lose interest pretty quick. May be a stupid question just looking for new ideas. I remember when i was kid i was content just exploring around and getting into stuff i shouldn't, my girls seem to be a little different. Why don't you leave them at home? know a lot of girls that age that care nothing about being at a lease. sugar & spice, & every thing nice. I've sat an let my daughter put nail polish on my toes , Not saying ya have ta do that.
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Re: Kids at the lease
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10/22/14 02:55 AM
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firestick
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I have one granddaughter been hunting with me since she was 6. She is 10 now and took her first deer last year when she was 9. She totally occupies herself when in camp. My other granddaughter is a few years older. She follows me around saying I am bored every 5 minutes. If they don't want to be there it's hard trying to keep them entertained.
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