Has your kid ever acted like this?
By katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
United States
August 21, 2008 12:38pm CST
It's state fair time again here in NY. We are looking forward to going on Monday and Tuesday. I bought a book of ride tickets for each of the kids this year. But I'm remembering an incident that happened with my oldest last year, and again at an amusement park just a few weeks ago.
See he's a bit nervous about going on new rides. He's 11 now, and too old for the baby rides, but hasn't been quite ready for the bigger rides. Last year we tried to encourage him to go on a few rides we felt he'd be safe with (none that went too fast or upside down) but he was not interested in trying any of them. He ended up spending all his tickets on fun houses, and really didn't have much fun in them.
He finally got brave enough to go on a few rides at our Fall Festival a month after the fair, so now he likes the tilt o whirl, but is still too scared to go on other rides.
A couple weeks ago at the amusement park we got him on a few more rides, but we nearly had to force him on them. Of course afterwards he admitted he enjoyed it.
Basically he's just not brave enough to try new rides, and at times will get mopey and depressed when we try to encourage him to go on the rides.
Once he has tried them, he decides he loves them, but it is difficult to get him to try them for the first time. Because he will act mopey and depressed, and I don't really get why. Does your kid ever act this way?
3 responses
@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
21 Aug 08
My kids are now 19, 16, 14 and 8 and they all love the rides and always have! My 8 yr old goes on the big rides now too!!
I would say that your son is hesitant, so why don't you go on the ride with him or have a friend of his come along. Maybe this will ease his tensions and he will feel more comfortable trying the rides.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
21 Aug 08
We encourage him to go on the rides we choose, because those are rides we like to go on, but he doesn't want to. My 5 year olds are braver than him and will go on any ride we let them, but he doesn't have this courage.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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21 Aug 08
My eldest used to mope and pull a face wherever we went, especially if he could not do what he wanted to do! He would be all mopey and depressed if one of us would not go on a ride with him though. I do not know why your boy gets like this unless it is his age!
@travibabiesgirl (1690)
• United States
21 Aug 08
Yes my kids at times act this way. My middle child is the worst about being mopey but it is for a different reason so I am not sure if it is the same type of mopey. Mine gets this way when things don't go his way or if I get on to him slightly for something. One incident I can think of was when we took them to a theme park and we all went to see an activity they had going on. It was a show called the circus on ice. It started out with people dressed up as animals skating around to the music. He sat there complaining and whining and pouting saying it was stupid before it had ever really gotten started. Then they did some really neat tricks on ice and had a comedian doing things. He laughed so hard at the comedian sketch and really had a great time once it got started. It makes me so mad when he does this. I do not know why he has to act this way. He is not extremely spoiled and is usually a big help around the house and very considerate of others exept these few times when things don't go his way. Another time was when we asked them if they wanted to go to the theme park or the huge aquarium and he said the theme park and everyone else said the aquarium. We looked up the weather and it looked like rain where the theme park was so we nixed the theme park and explained to him that it looked like rain and that we had season passes to the theme park so it was not like we would never get to go back to it but we thought it was better to go to an indoor activity instead. He pouted all the way to the aquarium but again once there had a blast. I guess kids will be kids.
