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I set aside a father-daughter day a few weeks ago actually and took my daughter downtown to the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater, which was simply awesome in every way possible. The dancing was magic, and the ambiance inside the small theater was stimulating. We both had a good time. The thing about kids that age is that, in my observation, the son naturally gravitates to the dad, and the daughter gravitates to the mom. My son always whines and grumbles when his mom comes to pick him up, and my daughter is the same when she has to leave mom.
And I have to agree with jewels443 that young children are susceptible to the moods and whims of their parents. I remember picking my kids up on the way to taking them to Toronto for the weekend, and my daughter was like, Mom's crying, she says she's going to miss me, I don't want to leave her alone...Dad do I have to go to Toronto, I don't want to go, I don't want to leave Mom.
Funny you should mention fishing because over the summer, I took both kids fishing and my daughter almost went into apoplectic shock when we hooked a fish. She's sensitive about animals (she won't eat hamburgers because she knows they were once cows) and literally started crying when we landed the fish. After she saw that we unhooked it and set it free, she went and sat in the car for the remainder of the time, reading. Which is fine with me, I won't ask her to go fishing anymore, and I don't hold her love of animals against her at all (we have 2 cats).
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