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As for teaching early, I would say you can't be too early with the safety lesson (stop, don't touch, get an adult), but you can weight to teach them to shoot.


Okay, I'll agree with you there. It's best to teach a child at least minimum safety lessons early when encountering dangerous items. I was more thinking along the lines that there's little harm in waiting to teaching them how to *use* the items until everyone is ready.

Whether a parent (or someone else) should artifically introduce a kid to a potentially dangerous item in order to teach them a safety lesson is another matter (one that I don't want to get into).

-Kuovonne