When I was a kid my dad worked hard at making me loose interest in mechanics because all I did was clean parts (never good enough) or be the gopher. Shooting was never good enough. He didn't believe in practice, an explanation was supposed to do it and OH by the way, don't miss a wing shot when you are 12 with a .410. I was never patient enough when we were fishing. It went on and on. Then all of a sudden I was a young married soldier with no money and a family to feed. I had to learn to fix, clean parts and be my own gopher. I actually got to practice shooting and it turned out that I could shoot pretty good. Don't get me wrong, dad and I were pretty close after I was an adult.
With my own boys it was hard. I was gone a lot with the Army and really only got to try to work with the 2 youngest. The older of them to loves cars (foreign sports cars) and could care less about a tractor. I really glad I didn't get into tractors shows with him. The evening entertainment would have driven him nuts. No rock???? Shooting/hunting? Oh I did it once, killed a deer, that's enough. Hates fishing. My youngest could care less about anything mechanical that doesn't fire a projectile. Doesn't care for fish. But I still talked to them. Found out what interested them and tried some things I never thought I'd try. Paint ball and air soft come to mind. I still WILL NOT jump out of a perfectly good airplane! But the 2 younger boys and I have come a full circle. We got a 53 JC3 that we are going to start as a project this spring. The younger of the 2 is 30.
Talk to the kid. Find something that you can do together. Not you watching him ride a quad. You cannot buy his love. Model trains, paint ball/airsoft, computer games, shooting (fire arms and or archery). Whatever it takes. You may learn something and find something that you enjoy too. You can always sell the quad and spend the proceeds on the new "thing". The big thing with my youngest who was the hardest that got us talking and doing things was paint ball that evolved into airsoft. At 13 he and I would hardy speak. He was shopping with my wife and they past a paint ball display and he got excited. My wife mentioned it to me. I was desperate at the time so I drove 25 miles that day while he was in school and got 2 cheap guns with masks and some paintballs. That was a major turning point with him. He really isn't into tractors but if he's here and I have to work on one he's right there doing whatever he can to help. Gotta butcher? He's right there when needed. A little money and a little effort on my part to find something he liked has been the best time and money I ever spent.
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