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Originally Posted by guiness  I have always been facinated by wildlife and nature. As a child my Dad would always take me out in to Derbyshire every weekend. He taught me all he knew over the years.
I am now married with two boys of my own. As they are both under 2 years old some people think that they are too young to start to learn about wildlife. My wife has had a typical City girl upbringing and she had never set foot in Derbyshire until she met me.
I am wanting to take my family somewhere to show them Deer in the wild. I realise we will have to get up very early but with both my lads being under 2 we are used to it. I live inbetween Barnsley and Doncaster in South Yorkshire. Does anyone know where we could see Deer in the wild???
Any advice would be apprieciated. |
Your children are definitely not to young to be introduced to nature. I have some young friends with a 27 months old little boy, his dad is passionate about nature, particularly spiders and other creepy-crawlies, his mum prefers shopping. When the little-one was only a few weeks old I went for a walk with him and his dad around a local nature reserve, all the way round his dad was showing him the flowers and telling him their names.
A few weeks ago I went with him and his dad to Natureland in Skegness. Natureland is mainly about seals but it does have other animals, one of which is a crocodile. The little-one when he saw the crocodile stopped looked at it and then, without any prompting from either his dad or me said, quite clearly and definitely, crocodile. Now he hadn't seen a crocodile before except for pictures in books and on the telly and I thought, 'watch-out Sir David you've got competition'.
I think his dad is right, whatever the future holds for the little-one, whatever form of employment he ultimately takes, a love of nature installed into him now will stay with him and he will not willingly harm nature in the future.