Not everyone advocates waiting for a kid to understand caves or to express an interest in caving before taking the child to a cave. Some second generation cavers claim to have gone caving with their mothers before they were even born. They don't remember these early caving trips, of course, but they do remember hearing later about how their mothers had gone caving while pregnant, and they sometimes enjoy the bragging rights when cavers swap stories about how young they were when they started caving.
So what are you waiting for, Dave? You're already late! ;-) Actually, I think the age of a child's first caving experience is not nearly as important as how the child feel's about doing it. If she enjoys the initial experiences and feels that caving is something neat you're letting her do, then there's a good chance she'll develop further interest in it and will grow up proud to be a second generation caver, especially if she associates with other young cavers who reinforce her interest in it as she grows up. On the other hand, if she grows up feeling that it's something her parents pushed her to do or that it's an activity associated only with her parents' generation and not with her generation, then she'll probably learn to avoid caving. That, of course, is true not just for caving, but for most activities that parents introduce to their children. Rod -----Original Message----- >From: Stefan Creaser <stefan.crea...@arm.com> >Sent: Jul 22, 2010 2:17 PM >To: David McClung <david.mccl...@sbcglobal.net>, texascavers@texascavers.com >Subject: RE: [Texascavers] first cave trip > >Surely you'll want her to remember her first caving trip? If so you're >gonna have to wait until she's about 3. > > > >Stefan > > > >From: David McClung [mailto:david.mccl...@sbcglobal.net] >Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:32 PM >To: texascavers@texascavers.com >Subject: [Texascavers] first cave trip > > > >i got a 5 month old mini caver that will need to go caving for the first >time and wondered if anybody has a suggestion on a good cave to go to. I >will wait till shes maybe a year old or so. or maybe not. > > > >chow, dave mc > > > > >-- >IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are >confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended >recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the >contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the >information in any medium. Thank you. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
