Small Town Ms. Palin and her unknowing daughter at just seventeen. By the time she was two she knew how to watch out for Bears and moose. By ten I would assume she had cold weather skills that would put the traveling big game hunter to shame.She would also know how to run a fishing boat to feed the family and make money can food for winter and tell a good firewood tree from a poor one.At seventeen in Alaska she knows more of life and death than the average 30 year old in the lower 49.Kids grow up quick in Alaska and can't be compared to the youth we have down here.