A Learning expirence...For Me

Hey Dads,
There are times when I am completely surprised by just how much children can teach you about yourself. I have always been cautious and never taking a leap to anything before I knew as much as I possible could about things. Because of this I think at times in my life I have been fear full to do things simply because they were knew and I didn’t know how it was going to affect me. Well I learned a valuable lesson yesterday when I took my two year old sledding.
It had been snowing all morning and at lunch my wife recommended that I take our son sledding for the first time, I thought that this was going to be a lot of fun and that he was going to enjoy it. When we told him what we were going to be doing, he said he didn’t want to and his little face began to quiver with fear, but I thought he was just nervous because he had never done this before. So I took him out. He enjoyed being pulled around on the sled, but then I took him down one small hill and that was the end of it. There was no way I was going to get him back in that sled for anything. I am very sorry to say that my son was truly terrified by the experience. While I was disappointed that he had not liked it, it also had my eyes opened about two very important things.
This first is just how much like me he really is, he has the same dislike of doing new things that are scary to him. The second and very important thing that I learned was just how powerful childhood fear is. I did not listen to him and because of that he is now very afraid of sledding. I learned of the importance of showing him how to overcome fear by doing so myself, but I also need to listen to him, because he will always tell me what he needs, I just need to have trust in that.

A Fellow Father