Had my 8 year old son with me last weekend.
Used my buddy' s ground blind to put my son in at the bottom of my tree. Got in the woods just before daybreak and as we' re setting up the blind, not 30 yards off we hear a deer snort as it took off. Pretty cool. Ok about 6:45 2 doe come in. One works it' s way all around us to within 15 yards of my son in the blind. I' m telling him that the deer is on the other side of the blind while he is looking out the back window and he shoud look out the front window. As the zippers start coming down, I swear that deer looked in his direction and said " What in the He!!" I can see my son' s head searching for the deer above the brush that the blind was behind. As the deer turned to take off I gave her a " errrp" to stop her. I let the arrow go, but misjudged the distance and the arrow flew low. My son thought we had her, but I let him down easy. He didn' t see her until she took off after the shot.
That evening we set up in another area and I sat in the blind with him. Had hot chocolate together and talked about everything. Didn' t need to see anything, just had a good time watching squirrels in a hollow tree chasing each other and joking and playing around with each other.
All in all, time spent with your kids is more valuable than you think.
I missed another doe after my son had returned home for school, but it didn' t matter. I' ll forget about the missed shots, and remember the weekend for the time I had with him. My brother gave him my nephew' s youth bow. I' m going to lower the draw weight and see if he can pull it.
Can' t wait for our next trip.[8D]