My thoughts are talk it over with your kid and let him make the decision, that’s a huge part of life, making choices….

Reminds me of my first year deer hunting as a kid…. Everyone else had already gotten their deer except for me. The eve before the last day of the season, we got permission to hunt some property that my family had hunted years past. Only this year, they were starting to get into outfitting, they said that I could hunt, but they would come with me and I could shoot either a doe or a small buck (spike or 2x2)….

My dad explained it to me straight up, we could go back to where we had been hunting, or go to this other place….

I thought it over and said, you know with it being the last day of the season, I may decide to shoot a doe or small buck. But NO ONE is going to tell me what I can and can’t shoot, I would rather bust my hump all day and see nothing, for me, that would have just taken the fun out of it…. So I went back to where we had been hunting. The next day I shot a dandy 4x4 muley….

Give you kid some choices on different hunt/trip scenarios and let him make the call....