I take my son to the local climbing wall. In fact, we have just signed him up for the kids club – every Monday evening for 10 weeks.
Sorry that I have not been able to take him to some boulders in one of the many national parks that surround this part of greater London, and that I have obviously mollycoddled him by letting him climb indoors, with a safety system in place, in an environment that has really helped him get some self confidence and a desire to really push himself. I know we are not doing it right because we aren’t taking him proper rock climbing, but hey.
And the days that kids learn to climb and fall have not gone away, he falls out of trees regularly when he;s not skidding his bike around corners at full pelt, just like I used to do at his age.
Health and safety gone mad, its like the daily mail on here sometimes.