Fred goes west

A very special milestone in my son's development has been reached. At the age of eleven and a half, he has become a fan of spaghetti westerns. Last weekend we watched For a Few Dollars More (possibly my favourite of the original trilogy). As a colossal fan myself, needless to say I'm thrilled to be sharing this with him.

What's so cool about it, I ask myself? I think it's that I feel I've got stuff to contribute to him, in a way that I didn't before. Stuff that he'll enjoy after he has put away his childish things and grown up. In other words, I'm passing on things to the burgeoning man within him that's starting to emerge. It feels like I'm being more than a parent - I'm being a dad.

Feels gooood.