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You may not have younger children, but you may also find yourself in a community which DOES have younger kids. Therefore this article is for all of us...
https://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/teaching-kids-survival-and-prepper-skills/ (https://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/teaching-kids-survival-and-prepper-skills/)
The author, Tara Dodrill, discusses "survival and wilderness" training for kids a young as 2 years old and on up to teenagers.
Of course you may run into the omniscient teenage who know all and will tell you so... They need a chance to learn too, but the lesson can be harsh for them. My advice is to try to guide them through that phase until they realize that they don't "know it all".
I DO approve of her attitude toward letting kids loose; "free range kids". I'll qualify that with respect to inner city kids because I wouldn't allow my kids to run loose in the lions cage at the zoo. The comparison is very accurate.