Save learning the skipping until after he masters the flipping and pitching. Learning to skip is one of the most frustrating techniques and will discourage even the most patient soul. I've been working on it for 8 months with multiple baitcast setups and I've not even come close to perfecting it. The easiest skipping technique to learn is weightless senkos with a spinning set up either rigged Texas or wacky. A good medium action rod with a size 30 spinning reel spooled with 20 to 30 lb braid and an 8lb test fluorocarbon leader work well. This skipping technique you can get down fairly easily. Working with a baitcaster with jigs and other lures takes LOTS of patience and a good eye for picking out backlashes!

Teach him how to skip a jig! It will come in handy.

So now it is a competition between me and him....I lost I gotta do his chores today lol....But don't wake a sleeping old dog I told him lol

Back when I was fishing a lot and actually practicing I found myself walking around the house flipping and casting at every target I could find. Bushes, trees, corners of the house, flower beds, garden, boat. You name it I would flip at everything and learn to work my bait in and out of bushes etc. Like someone else mentioned I saw a show where Denny Brauer talked about flipping with your left hand so you wouldn't have to switch hands and now many years later I very rarely flip with my right unless I am just at a position in the boat I have to. This not only was good practice but kept it from being boring and standing in one place. It forced me to cast and flip from different angles. I don't fish that much anymore but just for fun I still will spend an hour in the yard doing this just for fun and replaying memories in my mind of catching fish.

I also liked having a lure on my line to learn to work different baits when practicing flipping unless I was getting my dog involved with the game and I would put on one of the old rubber plugs for that.

My granddaughter started casting to targets in the backyard when she came to visit at age 5 with a Zebco 33.

^^^ this is a Big deal!! simulates the height of a boat from the water and gets the right "pendulum" affect. also it might be good to use the "tape trick" as it will help prevent backlashes!! just make a decent cast and put electrical or masking tape down across that area so the line will only feed off to that spot.

When he can do this, you'll know he's got it down.