I just don't. It's nothing something I'd want my children doing.
If they don't learn young, they'll almost never get to like it. The animals will overgrow sustainable, healthy populations because there are not enough hunters or predators.
I would say that is one lucky kid. I didn't get my BB gun until I was ten. I got my first shotgun at age twelve.
If kids were educated about firearms at an early age there would be fewer accidents, and less opportunities for the gun-grabbers to preach about "gun violence."
I regret that I never took mine.
Hunting is not for everybody, though. It's a traditional rite of passage in much of rural America, and an experience from which many young people learn valuable lessons about nature, life, death, and responsibility.
I hunt but my daughter doesn't care to. She loves shooting and knows the safety rules, she also likes doing all the camping things involved with hunting including getting all camo'd up, she just doesn't care to hunt...Nothing wrong with that.
I won't make light of your obvious love for animals...but... Unless you are strict vegetarians, do your kids know where their food comes from? Hunting is among the most basic of survival skills. When properly taught, it fosters respect for God's creatures, not abuse.
Does not the wild boar die a better death than the barrow in the slaughterhouse?
If a person is introduced to hunting (if should so choose) at an early age, they benefit from it. Where they learn discipline, always safety first, fair chase credo, adherence to game laws and the awesome responsibility which goes with the use of firearms, that is a good thing. IMO, it is something that carries over into their growing up to become responsible adult citizens.
I had guns and hunted before I was ten years old, same for our children, and it is the same for our grand children.
Some pics of our grandson, turkey at age eleven, at age twelve, he took an antelope, deer and elk. Now that he can pull a 40 pound draw, has graduated to archery and does most of his hunting with a bow.
http://hstrial-rchambers.homestead.com/Photo_Album.html