My daughter cried the entire time on this ride. We’re at Disneyland Wednesday. Passing haunted mansion and headed to Tiana’s byou (used to be splash mountain) It’s like 90 degree out and we’re ready to cool down a bit. For some reason my daughter decided she was afraid of the big drop in Tiana’s Byou, Which she already did on Monday, she started crying that she didn’t want to go. I told her “sorry baby. You weren’t born into a family that your allowed to be afraid of rides and not do them”. She cried the entire way through the line. (Thank goodness we had fast passes.) We get into our seat. She’s Still crying. As we’re riding I was telling her she should be proud of herself for being so brave, for being so scared of something and pushing past that and doing it anyways. How strong she is for facing her fears head on. For feeling her fear and doing it anyways. As soon as we did the big drop she was done crying. She realized that that drop wasn’t as scary as she had made it to be in her head! And she laughed and enjoyed the rest of the ride. That’s fear though isn’t it. Constantly making things a bigger deal than actually are. Constantly holding us back from growth, from fun, from everything we know we could do and be. And all you need to do is feel that fear and do it anyways. I use these amusement park rides and haunted houses with my kids to help them get used to doing things they are afraid of. I never want them to get used to Not doing something because they are afraid. Most of us had parents that would never push us past our fears. We’d cry out of fear and our parents would say things like “you don’t have to baby it’s okay”…. “No it’s okay he doesn’t want to right now” And now that Carries over into adulthood and we get used to when we feel afraid, avoiding the thing we need to do. I’m not going to let my kids do that. And I am going to encourage you to push right past that fear as well!! Whether that fear is “social anxiety”, public speaking, going to networking groups, calling businesses, texting clients to follow up, fear of rejection. Whatever it is. Push past it and do it anyways