Ah gotta love climbing! I got my son into it 3 years ago and it’s awesome. It’s a way to help push ourselves physically and mentally. It’s scary being up on there sometimes!
I do have a bit of a problem with saying be careful to him. It’s about 50/50, where I say be careful or I alter between pay attention and plan your next move before you make it like plan where you want your foot to go. I’m hoping that I make up for my shortcomings by showing him so many things and trying to help give him confidence in that way, where we have a problem and I will show him how we fix it, and make him fix it the second time if we have it again.
I do have a number of missteps, some which pain me deeply, that I for sure wish I gave him better than what I did at the time. The important thing is trying to fix as many of the upcoming ones as I can, by not doing things I did before, knowing the previous ones were painful for the both of us but not the end of the world.
It’s for sure every good parents dream that their kid is better than they were.
For sure. I have trouble "letting go" at the top.
I think that this is good parenting. It isn't the expectation that he can fix it by himself, but that he is supported to learn the process of fixing. Over time, having that process gives him the confidence to actually try first, and then ask later. There is good and bad in that too though! :D
I think it should be the least of parenting. We are an evolutionary species and we can guide our own evolution too - we should always be looking to improve, even slightly.