Everest angry - forcing a child on

[baldburke]

Once I heard a man telling his DD who was afraid to ride Spaceship Earth that she had to ride it. Then he took the keys to there room and said she couldn't go back yo the hotel until she rode the ride!

[Belle619]

That is so sad. If parents are this mean to their children at the happiest place on earth - I hate to think about how they treat them in everyday life.

[MMouse6937]

I guess I'm probably in the minority for this, but if my Dad hadn't made me do some things when I was a kid I would be living in a bubble right now. He never humiliated me or made me feel like I was preventing anyone else from having a good time but he used to push me to do some things I thought were going to be really scary. My mother was VERY protective and would have put me in her purse and carried me for the rest of my life if Dad hadn't said, "let's go, let's do it, be brave, you can do anything". I think because of that I am an adventuous person who tries to push the limits. I'm now married to an adrenaline junkie and he has even pushed me farther to try the unknown. Last year at DL he got me on TOT. I was terrified (the point, right? ) but I did it and survived and the rush that this gave me was out of this world! My dad taught me that, sometimes you have to be scared and try something to find out that it's something that you love. Ok, my two cents!

[#1donaldfan]

We've never made our kids feel bad, or put too much guilt on them, however we do push them some, to better themselves...for lack of better words. Our kids are pretty adventerous on their own, but when it comes to some of the rides and what leads up to them, they sometimes get a little "squimish"....we just keep them focused on having fun and the rides are there for fun....more often than not, they get on and have a great time.

[mickeynuts]

It makes me sick to see people acting like that, but I can understand really wanting a kid to ride because I know they will love it if they can just get past being nervous. Our solution has always been this: if it's a ride we know they will like but they are scared to ride, we make them wait in line with us. They know that if we get to the ride and they are still scared that we would never make them get on, but they do have to endure us trying to talk them into it while we wait in line hehe. We never use threats or humiliation, we just really talk up the ride and go on and on about how fun it is, how much fun they had on the last ride, how brave they are etc etc. Probably 80% of the time they have decided to ride by the time we get there, but if they haven't, we wait with them with no criticism. I'd much rather miss a ride than make my child cry.
Laura