Dave J wrote:
how long did you parental pilots wait to take your
kids up on their first flight?

A couple months after I'd passed my checkride, after doing a lot of solo
flying and gaining lots of confidence, I took up my then-12-year-old
son. He had an amazingly steady hand at the right-seat controls, kept
the altitude and heading completely on track...and found it only mildly
interesting, especially since I wouldn't do any stalls or stunts.

The girls went with me once or twice when I took a friend to summer
camp, but found it boring as well...just another internal combustion
vehicle, like riding with me to the grocery store.

Still, that was my attitude as an adolescent, and a long time later it
reawakened as the urge to learn flying -- so who knows?

Stella