I started my son shooting his Davy Cricket .22 last year, when he was 4 years old. I was having trouble explaining how to put the crosshairs on the target. Got to thinking about how to show him. I remmembered a game on my Sierra reloading software, Burris Varminteer, it show a crosshair on the screen. I sat down with him and showed him how to play and talked to him about proper sight picture while we played. After that he started shooting better.
He shot his first handgun on monday. My TC contender with a 10" .22 barrel. I started him off shooting small balloons and he hit everyone of them. I let him use a front rifle rest.
Sometimes it helps to think outside the box to find good teaching aids.
"Take a young person shooting and hunting this year"