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Posted by FMD on April 19, 2007 at 9:59:21 am EDT
In reply to Climbing as a Parent posted by Alicia on February 5, 2007 at 7:21:12 pm EST

My kids (three of them) had started climbing when they were 5 years old. I would belay them and we climbed only top roped. I would also use a chest harness at times if the grade called for it. As they grew older they started belaying (with me backing up the belay). As they grew in age, maturity and skill, they were weened on belaying with a autoblock. They are all teenagers now and they belay without a backup (auto block or another adult backing them up). My two oldest teenagers 15 and 16 y/o are now begining sport climbing and are setting up thier own TR sites by themselfs. They are also able to do some basic self rescues. I dont normally climb with anybody else but my wife and three kids.

Kids are amazing people. They learn quickly and are very eager to learn new things. All three of my kids has been SCUBA diving since the age of eight and received their open water certifications at age 12. They also progressed into rescue diving, ice diving, wreck diving and Nitrox. Some of these classes are pretty complicated (at least for me they were) but yet my kids did well on thier training.

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