I came across this question on a forum and thought I'd share my experience. I have 3 kids - 2 girls and a boy. My girls are 15 months apart followed by my son who is 3 years younger. On our first trip where the girls were tall enough to ride nearly all the rides, I wanted to encourage them to ride as many rides as possible but I didn't want to force them to ride anything. Neither of them were what I would call "thrill seekers." Neither of them had ever ridden a roller coaster before and they were both nervous about the thrill rides. My wife and I both love thrill rides and played them up.
I adopted a strategy of working from least adventurous rides to more adventurous as the trip progressed. The first "roller coaster" we did was Goofy's barn stormer. Once they realized they could live through that, we did Pirates of the Carribean. Then we did Big Thunder Mountain followed by Splash Mountain. By then end of the two weeks they were brave enough to ride Rockin' Roller Coaster and Tower of Terror.
By starting with the easy rides it not only gave them the confidence they needed to try something a little scarier it helped my judge whether they could handle something a little harder. For instance, on our last trip down my son, who was 4 at the time went on Splash Mountain. He was basically petrified after the drop. I could tell that was his limit. Two day later he was begging me to let him go on ToT, but I could tell from the way he had stopped breathing for about a minute and half on Splash Mountain that ToT was going to be a bad experience for him at this point. So we decided to wait for a while.
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