teffgrain

I'm trying to figure out how to best fascilitate my five year old
son's love of fishing. This is his passion at the moment and has led
to millions of projects and many fishing trips. He is learning
fishing knots, he is making flies, wooden bobbers, sinkers from
bolts, he has numerous fishing poles, some bought and some he made.
we learned how to make a reel fro a spool. However, he wants to go
fishing all the time. We go fishing in the evening after papa gets
home from work, we fish on weekends, we go to the fish hatcheries, we
go to the nearby river midweek. We go fishing about 3 times a week
right now, earlier it was every day. My husband said, "I always knew
our kids would make us do what we always wanted to do". However, I
feel that I am getting worn out doing more than I can handle. I need
to stay at home often to care for our grandmother as well as work
when all he want to do is fishing. I just want to say NO, but
somehow drum up the last ounce of energy and go fishing yet again. I
am tired and his drive to go fishing is stronger than my energy level
at this point. He doesn't seem to care if I am tired or have other
things to do. I'm getting pretty good at recognizing if something I
am doing is really all that important or not. I guess this is his
first interest that requires parental involvement at such a level
(during his mailcarrier phase for instance, all I needed to do was
keep up the office supplies and gets one cent stamps periodically).
How do parents encourage their child's interests while taking care of
their own commitments, time and energy needs?