Today we taught the boy about facing fears and overcoming obstacles. <\/p>\n
Like rules.<\/p>\n
We went to the park with lots and lots of slides. Now, it was a cloudy, muggy, lousy weekday, so the place was nearly empty. My five year old wanted to climb up the high, twisty slide after sliding down. Now, this is technically verboten<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
But it was awesome and huge and scary. It was, in his young mind, Everest. No way was I going to let something as pointless as The Rules take that way from him. <\/p>\n
That said, there’s a reason they have that rule. It’s so we don’t have a six toddler pile up as some other kiddo comes barreling down and mows his young legs from under him. Although that is also part of growing up. So I explained why the rule says no climbing, and why it didn’t apply today and how we’re Men, and we were damn well going to climb that mother.<\/p>\n
So now he both knows the heady rush adrenaline of overcoming you fear of heights, and that when confronted with a Rule, one should as “why?” if the answer is something like “So you don’t wind up breathing through a tube,” that’s a rule you should obey. If the answer is “because it Says So,” then you can get all Henry David Thoreau on its ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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