Jayden and the slide

Jayden and me got a day to ourselves today. My daughter is is on her visitation with herdad in NC. I decided we would do something special for mommy and Jayden day so we went to the park to play.Jayden is pretty fearless about things so he loves the big slides at one local park. Plus it is all shaded so no sunburn or third degree burns from equipment. Well he has discovered climbing walls which he loves (and which make me scared to death to watch him shimmy up). So he happily climbed up the wall with me trying my best to stay right behind him just in case he falls I can catch him or we will both fall and he will land on my nice soft squishy body (see there is a reason why I don't have six pack abs). Well anyway he gets to the top and decided to go down the biggest scariest slides they have. This slide even scares me because it twists and turns and you go fast on it. Well the first two times down went fine.But the third time he got turned the wrong way and it scared him. It scared me so I am sure it was pretty scary to him. He cried a little and decided he wanted to go on a little walk.so we walked out into this huge field and he ran around and then we collected rocks to paint later today. We where walking back to the car to go home and he put down his armload of rocks and very matter of factually said- I would like to go back to the playground. I said OK we have some time and it isn't really hot.Lets go. Well he headed straight for the climbing wall and he told me the slide was scary and it hurt him. I said that's OK just go down the other slide ( a lot less scary). He said OK and climbed up the climbing wall to the top of the platform. I thought he was going to go across the little bridge thing and go down the other safer slide but to my amazement he did not. He looked at the scary slide and told it- I am going to go down you now! And preceded to slide down it with a very confident look on his face. When he got to the bottom I of course swooped him up and told him I love him and I was proud of him. He was so funny. When I put him down he turned around and looked at the slide and said- Goodbye slide , I will see you again. And then told me we could go home now.and we got in the car and left. I was so impressed by my little guy. It is funny how God gives you these cool little kids in life and you think it is your job to teach them everything and sometimes it is the opposite.I think I have something to learn from this cute little crazy guy. Sometimes the best way to fight fear and hurt is to face it and tell it you aren't going to be held back anymore, you aren't going to take the easy less scary way , you are just going to conquer it!